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Although Thanksgiving is two weeks away, turkey is topping online food sections, and the New York Times is no exception. Florence Fabricant focuses on side dishes that will do your bird justice: traditional cranberries of course, but also apples, chestnuts, and pecans. Tony Cenicola’s accompanying photo should get your culinary creative juices flowing. 
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From the Times, and Square Meal, the top game restaurants, just right for the season -
Rules 35 Maiden Lane, WC2 “A genuine piece of the capital’s dining history. Rules began life in 1798 and continues to thrive as a gentleman’s haunt, replete with rich, upholstered decor, cluttered walls and a hushed air of maturity…. worth […]

The November-December issue of Vegetarian Times is here, just in time for planning your meat-free holiday meals, thoughtful gifts, cold weather health strategies, and tips for making your holidays more meaningful.
Among the issue’s highlights are plenty of quick meals to get you through the hectic holiday season.
The “30 Minutes” section offers up braised potatoes provencal, salad, […]

David Kamp’s The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation makes for a good light read for anyone interested in the subject of food, its follies and fights in the United States. It glides the decades and personalities of the food world with personal stories, quirky accounts and riffs of all our […]

I am a turkey rookie, so I generally get overwhelmed when trying to pick which type of turkey to make for Thanksgiving. I thought everyone else in the store knew what they were doing, so an article by Gwen Schoen of the Sacramento Bee about all the different types of turkeys made me feel much […]

Even a superficial reading of the Monterey Herald’s piece on chef Craig von Foerster reveals that the man is seriously dedicated to food. He is the author of the Sierra Mar Cookbook and the chef at the Sierra Mar restaurant, located on California’s Big Sur coastline. Just look at that cover! When are we going?
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I have to admit that I was (and to some extent, still am) a picky eater. In an effort to rid the world of its picky eaters, the Sacramento Bee’s Dan Vierria interviewed Frances Boswell, who along with her mother-in-law Elisabeth Luard, wrote Food Adventures: Knowing Good Food from the Start. The book provides “strategies […]

Three recommended books for cooks from the November issue of Delicious Magazine.
The Food Of France by Sarah Woodward
“The author spends half the year in France and her descriptions of places, faces and food are so good you’ll feel as if you’re there. Recipes are divided into regions, each more mouthwatering than the last and as […]

Just a few programming notes on what has been going on behind the scenes of the Well Fed Network lately. We have been working very hard on a redesign of the entire network, and it should be going live today or tomorrow. We’re all excited about it, and can’t wait to show it to all […]

I love when I find newspapers highlighting some of the many wonderful cooks around the blogosphere. It’s so heartening to know that people are noticing the great things that are happening in our global food community. For me, food blogging started as a way to branch out into a type of writing that I am […]