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• Table for One makes eating alone seem appealing

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:32 pm

  Tags: Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant, Aloneinthekitchenwithaneggplant, Culinate, Eating Alone, Personal Essay, Table For One

  across such an essay on Culinate that hits everyone of these notes and left me wanting more. It is an excerpt from the recently released anthology Alone in the Kitchen With an Eggplant called Table for One and was written by Erin Ergenbright. It reads quickly and leaves behind a feeling of quiet appreciation for food and the time it takes to

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• Escape from the holiday hubbub

  Published: November 23, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: Charlotte Freeman, Culinate, Essays, Good Reading, Mushrooms, The Walking Cure

  Earlier in the week, Culinate posted an essay by Charlotte Freeman entitled The Walking Cure. It is about a time when Freeman was struggling with an inexplicable illness that made her run fevers and feel exhausted. A practitioner of Chinese medicine recommended outdoor physical exercise and so she started taking long, very slow walks in

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• The most recent This American Life is all about food

  Published: November 27, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Chicken, Culinate, Jonathan Gold, Thanksgiving, This American Life, Thisamericanlife

  thanks to Kim's post on Culinate today, I'm now aware that the entire episode this weekend was all about food, poultry specifically (so appropriate for Thanksgiving). Lucky for me, I subscribe to the show's podcast, so that episode will appear on my iPod sometime in the next few days and I'll be able to listen to it in all of it's wacky,

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• Party tips on Culinate

  Published: December 21, 2007, 7:57 am

  Tags: Culinate, Deb Perelman, Entertaining, Helpful Tips, Helpfultips, Party Giving, Smitten Kitchen

  that earlier this week Culinate published a collection of tips from her about entertaining (especially helpful for the rapidly approaching holidays). The most helpful piece of advice for me is number 8, which recommends that you pick a quitting time in order to give yourself time to pull yourself together and enjoy your friends and family

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• Culinate's Death by Chocolate contest

  Published: February 5, 2008, 11:01 am

  Tags: Contest, Copia Center, Culinate, Death By Chocolate, Food Festival, Napa Valley

  Our friends over at Culinate are hosting a contest in which they'll be sending both a reader (and their guest) and a food blogger (as well as their guest) to Copia Center's Death by Chocolate Festival in Napa Valley. Entering is easy, just head over to the Culinate contest page, sign up and choose your favorite food blogger. You enter

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• A bounty of spring green garlic

  Published: June 11, 2008, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Culinate, Green Garlic, Greengarlic, Pesto, Sarah Gilbert, Sarahgilbert, Sausage, Spring

  Filed under: Vegetables, SpringUntil last year, I had never heard of green garlic. I was certainly familiar with regular old garlic, it was ever-present in my childhood kitchen, but I generally didn't give much thought to the younger, spring version of that familiar, stinky bulb until it started appearing all over the media. It (along with ramps)

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• Culinate's glossary of whole grains

  Published: June 25, 2008, 5:03 pm

  Tags: Carrie Floyd, Carriefloyd, Culinate, Grain Glossary, Grainglossary, Whole Grains, Wholegrains

  a whole grain glossary on Culinate and it has become my new favorite repository of grain information (Laurel's Kitchen is still wonderful, but since I often plan meals while sitting at work, I can't really carry it around with me all the time). Check it out and let yourself be inspired to check out some new grains. It's a little more

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• Slashfood Ate (8): Friday salmagundi

  Published: July 11, 2008, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Coffee Cubes, Coffeecubes, Culinate, Edamame, Epicurious, Kitchen Illiterate, Kitchenilliterate, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, Lynnerossettokasper, Retro Cereal Boxes, Retrocerealboxes, Salmagundi, Spaghetti Western, Spaghettiwestern, The Splendid Table, Thesplendidtable, Tuna

  night. On Tuesday, Culinate posted a terrific interview with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of American Public Media's wonderful food program, The Splendid Table. Over at Serious Eats, Robyn Lee posted a hilarious and wonderful stop motion "cooking" video called Spaghetti Western. This one is a definite must watch. Geekadelphia

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• DIY Foods: Making homemade sausage

  Published: July 23, 2008, 5:02 pm

  Tags: Culinate, Homemade Sausage, Homemadesausage, Kitchenaid Mixer, Kitchenaidmixer, Matthew Amster Burton, Matthewamster Burton

  professionals). On Monday, Culinate posted a piece by Matthew Amster-Burton that's got me thinking that maybe I should change my ways and start experimenting with homemade sausage. I like the idea of avoiding all the perservatives that you find in commercial sausages and Matthew makes it sound so darn easy. He says you don't need many tools (I

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