Cooking the Books 

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My Cooking the Books, starring Bennett as host and a very awesome Batman tshirt from the Val collection.

Apr 27th

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Apr 17th

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Kathryn Borel, the author of Corked, taught us how to make perfect hollandaise sauce and imitated her dad’s French accent. 

Apr 9th

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From the Hips author Ceridwen Morris and her husband The Ask author Sam Lipsyte joined us for some Momofuku pork buns.  In the Awl comments Choire pointed out that there is a recipe for these available online, but I feel that it is inferior and that you should just buy the cookbook.  It’s a great cookbook — even if you never cook anything from it it’s fun to read and pretty to...

Apr 9th

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Cleaving author Julie Powell showed us how to make pig liver and onions.  Fun fact: I have been mostly a vegetarian since we taped this, not because it wasn’t good, but because a little liver goes a long way.

Apr 9th

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On episode 5, Girl Power author Marisa Meltzer and I made vegan cupcakes from Alicia Silverstone’s vegan cookbook The Kind Diet.  Alicia advocates eating a healthy helping of greens for breakfast every day, and would like to remind you that honey is food for bees, by bees.

Apr 9th

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The Melting Season author Jami Attenberg made cheeseburgers on episode 4.  We tried to replicate the Shake Shack burger with ok results.  The Shake Shack sauce was good, at least.  Probably Laurie Colwin is right that hamburgers are a restaurant food, not an at-home food.

Apr 9th

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Obsolete author Anna Jane Grossman made popcorn cookies for Episode 3.  This was the only time we made food that was actually not very successful; if you would like to also make kinda-gross cookies with too much going on in them, the recipe is here.

Apr 9th

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