January 16, 2010
To Amanda Hesser’s list of foods whose names alone command that you make them, I add this quirky dessert. Syllabub! Every time in the past two weeks I’ve called it by name, it’s been met with total crack-up laughter. Don’t you want to make it too, just to be able to say [...]
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December 17, 2009
The last several times I saw cheesecake on a restaurant menu, it always listed some cheese other than cream cheese as its defining ingredient: ricotta, farmers cheese, and goat cheese seem to make regular appearances.
This is with good reason: traditional cheesecake is overly sweet and very dense. It feels to me like a 1980’s-era dessert, [...]
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