Gastrolust

I’m not a cookbook reviewer, and this certainly won’t be a cookbook review. Instead, I’d like to discuss how one dish and one person can enhance one’s culinary life.
If you’ve been following along, you know that I’ve just returned from Tokyo. Aside from all the ramen, I was treated to lots of magnificent home-cooked and [...]

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I went a little cooking crazy last weekend.
It was all part of an extended birthday celebration, an excuse to have friends over, and then a guest visiting for New Zealand. I need more such excuses.
In addition to a root beer cake and orange-Szechuan peppercorn ice cream (a David Lebovitz recipe), I made four soups:

mushroom (an [...]

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