Non-dairy, no-sugar (except natural fructose) chocolate (and banana) ice not-cream

A quick recipe I made up today.

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Curing and Related Book Adventures

As I noted in a recent Facebook status update, the second gravlax is underway. This time the base fish is two slabs of a farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

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Resources for developing a vocabulary of tastes and techniques in Chinese cooking

I just responded copiously to an Ask MetaFilter question about this topic.

In case something unfortunate happens to my reply, I’ll copy it in toto over here, but here’s the link to my answer too.

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