British writer Michael Freedland lost his wife of many years one year ago. But he also lost his favorite cook. Urged on by his children, he is learning to do more than scramble eggs. And then some.
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Ghalia Mahmoud was a cook for an upscale family in Egypt when she was "discovered" by a tv executive needing insights for cooking at the time of Ramadan. Now she has her own show, and is gaining celebrity.
"We are people from poor neighbourhoods. If my husband left me 10 Egyptian pounds (£1) and we …
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Seized with a passion to both make and eat Doner Kebab? The Guardian's Tim Hayward shows how.
"Experience a behind-the-scenes look at the Washingtons’ kitchen through the new exhibition, Hoecakes & Hospitality: Cooking with Martha Washington. On display inside the Donald W. Reynolds Museum, this temporary exhibition explores how foods were prepared and presented at 18th-century Mount Ver…
"Real Recipes (app)offers more than 25,000 recipes and countless tools to enhance the user’s cooking experience, including a recipe box, recipe ratings and reviews, and the best advice and tips from the expert food Guides on About.com."
If you want that many recipes clogging your phone or othe…
Happy Year of the Dragon--take a gander at these traditional foods, typical of those eaten during the two week Chinese New Year festivities
• Dumplings: Symbolize wealth because they look like ancient Chinese money.
• Rice dumplings: Represent “reunion” because of their round shape.
NYTimes writer Melissa Clark discovers that high tech cookery can indeed take place in an ordinarily-equipped kitchen, in this case, her own. "Modernist Cuisine's" actual Nathan Myhrvold visited.
How? Just add a gizmo to your business' existing commercial mixer, rather than buying an entire separate pasta maker.