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Associated Press Elizabeth Karmel’s “French Chicken,” is a chicken slathered with mustard, white wine, and scallion sauce that bakes during roasting.
Honoring Julia Child with a grilled French chicken
When I was young, Julia Child was as much a fixture in my family’s kitchen as she was on television. Not only did my mother watch her, she cooked right along with her, as well. The local public te...
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Associated Press American TV chef Julia Child shows a salade nicoise she prepared in the kitchen of her vacation home in Grasse, southern France. Child changed the way Americans look at food as well as the way women looked at cooking and themselves.
Julia Child: a legacy of teaching the joy of food
Massaging poultry, dropping food and utensils, and warbling her way through boeuf bourguignon and coq au vin, Julia Child left an indelible mark on American food. As television’s towering, ebullie...
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Don't fear kohlrabi, it's delicious
FAIRBANKS - Just like humans, weird looking vegetables are, if not shunned, seldom given a second or loving glance. How else to explain kohlrabi’s lack of popularity in the U.S. when there is so mu...
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Associated Press Celebrity chef Mario Batali and wife Susi Cahn attend ‘The Gentleman’s Ball’ hosted by GQ Magazine in New York. Batali, Cahn and their sons are eating for a week on a food stamp budget to protest potential cuts pending in Congress. in the benefit program now used by more than 46 million Americans. That’s $31 per person for the week, or about $1.48 per meal each.
Mario Batali, a hungry chef on a food stamp challenge
NEW YORK — To much of the world, it was Monday. To Mario Batali, it was Day Four. The chef, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in pr...
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Alaska chefs to enter seafood cook-off
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Six professional chefs from around Alaska are set to compete in a seafood preparation contest in Anchorage. The Great Alaska Seafood Cook-Off is scheduled to take place Monday ...
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Thai meals are inspiring and easy to clean up
FAIRBANKS — As I sat down to write this month’s column, I started thinking about what I’ve been cooking in my own kitchen lately. I’ve been a bachelor for the past few weeks, so I’ve had some eclec...
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Suzanna Caldwell/News-Miner Sorted vegetables get ready to go into veggies boxes at HomeGrown Market.
Veggie box, done locally
FAIRBANKS — For the HomeGrown Market, things often slow down in the winter. So front manager Monica Mazakis came up with an idea to get more people in: Create a veggie box filled with as much local...
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Apps make dieting easier, but nothing takes the place of a good cook
FAIRBANKS - I want someone to design a foodie cyborg implant that can track of all my bodily systems and keep everything at optimal levels: blood sugar, caloric intake and output, sleep cycles, cho...
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A dinner guest gets an appetizer during the 2010 University of Alaska Fairbanks Community and Technical College culinary arts and hospitality program scholarship dinner. The theme for this year’s dinner is “Celebrating Alaska’s Bounty.” Photos by Todd Paris, UAF Marketing and Communications
Scholarship dinner plans menu around Alaska-grown fare
FAIRBANKS - For the last 24 years, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Community and Technical College culinary arts and hospitality program hosts a gourmet, multi-course dinner to raise money for t...
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Chard: What it is and how to use it
It’s a beet, minus the root. Which doesn’t make sense. Except it does. Because it’s chard, one of a growing number of common, yet often overlooked greens lurking at your grocer. Chard — sometimes...
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Associated Press photo A plate of pancakes with blueberries and granola mixed in the batter is a fun way to mix up traditional flapjacks.
20 fresh takes for dressing a stack of pancakes
As pancake toppings go, maple syrup is swell and certainly traditional, if not particularly inspired. But if you’re going to go to the trouble of griddling up a stack of hot pancakes for Mom on Mot...
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Bundt coffee cake for mom’s day
FAIRBANKS — The first thing I ever picked out to bake with my mother was a lemon blueberry Bundt cake. I’d seen an ad for the cake — complete with lemon-yellow icing — and thought it was the most s...
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‘Steak’ and eggs by way of the vegetable patch
Much as I love a big, beefy steak, sometimes I need something on the lighter side. Which doesn’t mean I’m willing to sacrifice the delicious char of the grill or the satisfaction of something big ...
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Eggs benedict can be boring in restaurants, but delicious at home. / Courtesy Linden Staciokas
Eggs, eggs and more eggs make eggs Benedict a dish worth indulging in
FAIRBANKS — In case you have never heard of it, eggs Benedict is a dish where a sauce of egg yolks, butter and lemon transforms the plain ingredients of an English muffin, a slice of Canadian bacon...
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Amateur cooks invited to Great Alaska Seafood cook-off
KENAI, Alaska - Amateur cooks are being invited to compete in the Great Alaska Seafood Cook-Off. The Peninsula Clarion (http://bit.ly/HLKAY3 ) says the competition will feature an amateur recipe d...
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Peach cake and green gumbo, just in time for spring
FAIRBANKS - Look what’s back! Two readers recently submitted recipes for Taste of the Interior, which jump-started our desire to get the feature rolling again on the Our Town page. But, dear reade...
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Chia seeds aren't just for clay critters
After decades adorning everything from a zoo-worthy collection of clay critters to presidential busts, ch-ch-ch-chia seeds finally are ready to ditch the kitsch. Because in recent years these tiny...
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Don’t whine about the weather, drink wine instead
FAIRBANKS — Just like that, it’s light outside at 6 a.m. I love this place. No more whining from me for a while. Honest. Who can whine about anything this time of the year? Even if it means you hav...
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Paella comes in different varieties, but memories linger
FAIRBANKS — I’m always trying to recreate a specific piece of my lost youth: a paella I had while living with a wonderful family in Almeria, Spain on the Mediterranean coast. I honestly can’t remem...
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Matcha tea workshops planned for Saturday
FAIRBANKS — Sipping Streams Tea Company is bringing up two representatives from AOI Tea Company to present a class on how to make matcha. Matcha is the highest grade of Japanese tea grown, Sipping...
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Are your kids veggie averse? Try mashed carrots
Not sure why this recipe never occurred to me before. After all, I live on the front lines of the battle to get kids (in particular, my own) to eat vegetables. And it’s usually a losing battle. Un...
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The Associated Press A hamburger made from ground beef containing what is derisively referred to as “pink slime,” or what the meat industry calls “lean, finely textured beef,” right, and one made from pure 85 percent lean ground beef are ready for tasting.
‘Pink slime’ sounds gross, but how does it taste when put to the test?
All this angst over “pink slime” has made one thing clear: We don’t always know what we’re getting when we bite into a big juicy burger. Which leaves unanswered some of the most basic questions in...
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Taco Bell introduces the Dorito Taco
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Taco Bell hopes to turn orange Doritos cheese powder into green — as in cash from its latest invention. The Mexican-style chain plans to roll out Doritos Locos Tacos at midnight ...
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Strawberry farmers in Florida say they have produced a large crop this year and will struggle to make a profit. / The Associated Press
Huge strawberry harvest means low prices, profits
PLANT CITY, Fla. — Folks come from all over to enjoy the Florida Strawberry Festival, where they will find shortcake eating contests, a berry queen and a strawberry production exhibit. But behind ...
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Let’s take a wok through the kitchen
FAIRBANKS — This is a great time of the year, even with all of the fresh snow. More daylight, spring break and ice park. I can see the faint little light at the end of the tunnel. These things help...
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New caffeine dispenser delivers controversy
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is ...
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Higher beef prices expected in years ahead
LUBBOCK, Texas — The smallest cattle herd since the 1950s likely will mean higher beef prices at the supermarket for the next two years. Experts said beef prices could climb as much as 10 percent ...
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Celebrating Mardi Gras, Cajun-style
Mardi Gras is the sort of celebration that can make every city in America want to be New Orleans. Between the parties and parades and all those rich foods, what’s not to love? Well, perhaps the af...
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Potato-based soup is a versatile, easy start for a winter meal
FAIRBANKS — It is February. I am cold, tired and don’t have any money to waste, so all too often the end of the day finds me mindlessly steering into the fast-food lane to order the cheapest and mo...
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Chefs wanted for 2012 Great Alaska Seafood Cook-Off
FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is looking to crown the next king or queen of Alaska seafood. The institute is hosting the Great Alaska Seafood Cook-Off May 14 in Anchorage. Chef...
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