The person who gave me the copy I have of the 1948 Joy of Cooking and a cast-iron skillet came to my house for lunch. It had to be one heck of a thank-you lunch. The 1948 freaking Joy of Cooking, for goodness sake! (I edited that sentence...) So we had soup, yes, one of my … [Read more...] about Canned and Pickled Everything
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Inexpensive Moong Dal and the Montreal Metro’s Helpful Spice-Grinding Tips
So I was in the metro yesterday and looked up at the big MetroVision screens in the subway that tell you when the next train is coming and give you some generally uninformative news headlines, when lo and behold, I read the following: "To grind spices in a mortar and pestle, … [Read more...] about Inexpensive Moong Dal and the Montreal Metro’s Helpful Spice-Grinding Tips