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togatherinc:

We’re super excited that author and Iron Chef America judge Michael Ruhlman recently joined Togather because it will give him more opportunities to share his unique culinary sensibility with readers everywhere — online and in person!  Michael is based in Cleveland, but he’s interested in both live and videochat events, which you can start lining up here.  Everyone from ambitious home cooks to culinary professionals is drooling over his new book  Ruhlman’s Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, a Cook’s Manifesto.  In it, Michael distills his decades of training into twenty simple techniques that will change the way anyone cooks. 

Interested in sharpening your cooking skills, or hosting your own “Iron Chef” style competition? Bring Michael to your town!  You might learn how to make homemade prosciutto. Or maybe you could turn your next book club meeting into an excuse to chat with Michael on Google Hangout while he helps you roast a chicken. Go on, propose an event. It’s sure to be delicious.

Could not be more psyched that fellow Cleveland native Michael Ruhlman is on our site! People, do cool stuff with him! He is so nice and so smart!

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The Martha Washington cookbook, as annotated by Hess, extends The Taste of America’s argument that culinary philistinism has not always been and need no longer be part of the national character. Food writers on the corporate payroll in the mid-twentieth century had extolled modern convenience foods such as tinned ham and processed cheese, but the Washington cookbook hints at what was lost: pickled lettuce stalks, quince marmalades (seven kinds in this one family’s book), damson preserves, candied rosemary, violet paste, caraway cakes, syrup of cowslips, and elderberry wine.

theparisreview:

The Founding Farmers

I fuckin’ love salt.

oldfilmsflicker:

I lead a salt appreciation life

Click through for live sheep at Pier 78, mystery pudding, and a really big lobster claw.

zachlinder:

Gothamist: Flashback: How New York City Ate In 1938

Good news, ladies.