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Me and My Miso By John Adamian/Life@Home People are funny about fermentation. They get a little squeamish about some fermented foods, even as most of us don’t blink at cheese, bread, chocolate and lots...
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Makin’ Bacon By John Adamian/Life@Home Bacon is a bit of a rock star. Normally composed adults lose their cool when it’s in the room. People start acting silly and crowding around. Once you throw it in...
View ArticlePressure Drop: The case for buying and learning to use a pressure cooker
By John Adamian/Life@Home Pressure cookers freak people out. In a kitchen filled with sharp knives, open flames, mixers that can make a mess of a misplaced finger, and other potentially dangerous...
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The Can-Do Condiment By John Adamian/Life@Home Mustard — the workhorse condiment, the yellow stuff, the grainy stuff, the fancy French stuff — gets its flavor from mustard seeds. No duh, you might say,...
View ArticleOnline Exclusive: Learning to love seaweed
Elemental Eating By John Adamian/Life@Home Is there a vegetable out there that needs a more thorough public-image overhaul than seaweed? Superficially, seaweed has got so much going against it. The...
View ArticleFood Trends: Homemade ricotta is super easy to make and totally worth the effort
Creamy Curds By John Adamian/Life@Home I started making homemade ricotta in my kitchen recently. I hadn’t found myself using store-bought ricotta all that much before this, so I didn’t expect the...
View ArticleFood Trends: Spice up your next cookout with this homemade condiment
Playing Ketchup By John Adamian/Life@Home Ketchup would seem to be a reliable culinary class/taste litmus test. Many elitists think it’s a measure of good sense: People who use it a lot don’t have any....
View ArticleFood Trends: Granola earns a reboot
Getting Crunchy By John Adamian/Life@Home Granola needs an image upgrade. Somehow this tasty and satisfying cereal and snack made with baked oats and dried fruits got a bad rep, or an unfortunate...
View ArticleFood Trends: Onion-centric cooking pleases all the senses
The Smell of Success By John Adamian/Life@Home The smell of sauteing sliced onions in hot oil or butter elicits exclamations of ecstatic anticipation from guests. Few other basic kitchen tasks do...
View ArticleFood Trends: Get the professionals to make boutique sausage for you
Linked In By John Adamian/Life@Home Certain delicious rustic, elemental foods are too much trouble to make at home, even if our great-grandparents may have done it. Sausage is one such tasty food...
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