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TV Dinner: 5/11-5/17/2008
21 Cooks! 5/12 — Sara Moulton baked Buffalo wings with bleu cheese on top, while Jose Andres cooked Catalonian food and drank a lot of Cava. (PBS, Monday starting at 8:00pm)
TV Dinner: 5/4-5/10/2008
Lidia’s Italy 5/4 — Time Warner’s description promised thin Italian pancakes, porcini wraps, and more, but what Lidia actually prepared was monkfish in brodetto with artichokes, and skillet fennel with capers. It was all about Roman cooking, and the brodetto was simple: white wine, capers, tomato paste, and water. (PBS, Sunday at 5:30pm)
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Japanese Iron Chef is On the Air
Starting tonight at 11pm, the original Iron Chef will be airing on the Fine Living network. As much as I enjoy Iron Chef America, there’s really no substitute for the original.
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TV Dinner: 4/27-5/3/2008
Lidia’s Italy 4/27 — Lidia prepared “chard pillows” — ravioli filled with a mixture of chard, chicken livers, and ricotta. I’m pretty sure she actually used spinach instead of chard, and although she said they were interchangeable I think they have very different tastes. She made a long-cooked ragu for the sauce — [...]
The Best Argument
Here’s a reason to fight global warming that can bridge any divide:
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Bittman on Bittman
One of my favorite food personalities, Mark Bittman, had a live broadcast on on one of our local public television stations. Click here to watch Mark correct the spelling in a viewer’s email, be won over by the George Foreman Grill, and address “obese American people.”
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