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I'd like to start off by saying thank you to all of you who have emailed me this week with well wishes. Even though we've never met, we share a connection through our love of food, and that makes us ...Read More

Tried, But Still Can’t Get Into Gazpacho

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I'd venture to guess that peas are a vegetable most people never eat fresh.  I think it's the convenience factor -- frozen and canned peas are easy and inexpensive -- and the fact that frozen can sometimes taste even better ...Read More

Rice and Spring Pea Soup

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Hot and sour soup sounds so deceptively simple.  Hot. Sour. How difficult can that be?  Well, plenty, at least for this home cook.  In the past when I've made the soup, it's turned out, ehh. A few problems emerged: the delicate ...Read More

In Pursuit of Hot and Sour Soup Perfection

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If potstickers are origami, wontons are paper airplanes: 10 times simpler to construct. That's partly because the shaping and crimping of potstickers is more intricate than the folding of wontons, and partly because rather than make wonton wrappers from scratch, ...Read More

Shrimp Wonton Soup

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As a kid, the thought of split pea soup is revolting.  For one thing, the soup's green; it's also thick like baby food; it has the word "pee" in it (okay, different spelling, but to a kid, the words are ...Read More

Easy Split Pea Soup