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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

Culinary Cues

Chefs are often nostalgic. It is also those times that built our character, our confidence, and our reputation as a chef who is well seasoned. How clear is our memory and how often do we tend to embellish on the positive and diminish the negative? I pay the staff little mind and they never look up as I pass.

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How Chef Deborah VanTrece Honors the History of Soul Food at Her Atlanta Restaurant

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The chef feels her power as a southern, Black, queer person through her dishes “The biggest misconception about soul food is that it is unhealthy, not good for you, and that it’s garbage, that it’s trash. It’s just not true,” says chef Deborah VanTrece, as she de-stems and washes an enormous pile of collard greens.

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CHOOSE YOUR STAGE – TELL YOUR STORY

Culinary Cues

My meager skills as a drummer when I was a teenager were never going to provide an opportunity to reach throngs of fans, however I did find a place in the kitchen – a stage of sorts, a vehicle for telling my story just like hundreds of other cooks and chefs with whom I have worked over five decades. The same is true of each of us.

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WITH A LANDMARK COOKBOOK, AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN CELEBRATES A RECORD 20 YEARS

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America's Test Kitchen celebrates 20 years with commemorative cookbook that offers tried-and-true recipes plus insights from the show's chefs. Also incorporated into the book are fascinating insights from the cast that both capture the personality of the show and allow a rare behind-the-scenes look.

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Improving School Cafeteria Lunches Starts With Who’s in the Kitchen

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The program is known as the Healthy School Food Pathway program (HSFP), and was created by the Chef Ann Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to increasing healthy scratch-cooked meals in schools. “If Mara Fleishman, CEO of the Chef Ann Foundation, says the program officially launched last year as a three-year pilot program in California.

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The Pastry Chefs Defining Restaurant Dessert Right Now

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Lanna Apisukh These five chefs are pushing pastry forward, making it an especially thrilling time to order dessert Pastry chefs are back. Restaurants are once again employing pastry chefs — even legendary pastry chef Claudia Fleming is once more heading up a pastry program — and dessert at many restaurants is the best part of the meal.

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The Trouble With Trek Food

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A scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation shows a Romulan and Klingon dining side by side. | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images. The best cookbooks help us learn and think about their subjects. The new Star Trek cookbook, sadly, only reaches for the food coloring. Slime on a stick on the Deep Space Nine station promenade?

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