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Loud-Mouth Cooks

I read a funny post–and now I can’t find it!–that humorously discussed anti-blog “backlash” from business media pundits. Then I went to Epicurious.com, browsing for appetizers to bring to tomorrow’s class party, and found myself an hour later reluctantly tearing myself away from heated discussions about recipes, particularly a vigorous thread about barbecue pork tenderloin.

I know it’s just food–when you eat it three times a day, how important can it be?–but even if people have stopped the conversation on the rest of the Web (which I don’t believe), words still flow with vigor on the cooking forums, which are like Slash/Dot if Slash/Dot were interesting to read and its habitues were adults.

For the record, nothing I read could budge me from bringing cheese straws, a recipe from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. (He has two versions; I use the one based on his pie crust.) They’re flaky, savory, and portable, and you can make the dough days in advance. But I did just give some spareribs a rub I found in one Epicurious recipe, and will be cooking them late this afternoon with the method found in another, and tomorrow I’ll post the results–here, and on Epicurious, as well.

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3 Comments

  1. Norma wrote:

    Do you suppose I could bother you for that cheese straws recipe? Sounds just like what I need for a brunch next week. Thanks.

    Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 12:23 pm | Permalink
  2. Ruth Ellen wrote:

    Me, too, please.
    -R

    Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 5:54 pm | Permalink
  3. Julie wrote:

    Mark Bittman is the BEST!! I got this cookbook as a gift, and it remains one of my favorites. If you don’t get the cheese straws recipe by the time I get home, I’ll shoot it back. Jj

    Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 8:01 am | Permalink

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