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- Abbi's Polenta Casserole
- Little changes to suit your taste can make a recipe all your own
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- Recipes come from any number of places: grandmothers, experimentation or sometimes a food star's cookbook. For Abbi's Polenta Casserole recipe, it started out as a Rachael Ray creation that's been tweaked to make it Abbi Browning's own. "She calls... Full story
- Uncorked: Fruit-forward cabernet sauvignon
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- Big is increasingly the word as holidays draw near, especially in the often machismo-charged world of fine wine. Seems every guy with dreams of a cellar starts measuring wine by prices, bottle heft and Robert Parker scores. But is "big" always... Full story
- Cooking to fight cancer
- Nourishing, big-flavor food can be a life raft for friends undergoing treatment
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- At some point, cancer invades the life of someone we know and love. Like most people, I want to help friends and family who are undergoing treatment. I want to cook something irresistible, but I am at a loss as to what would be nourishing and... Full story
- Uncorked: Fronsac is called the secret garden of Bordeaux
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- Forget April in Paris. Bordeaux's wineries can be so beautiful in spring. The grass is newly green, the vines have begun to leaf out and the lilacs are fragrantly in flower. I was lucky enough to savor the scene on a 2008 trip to Chateau Cassagne... Full story
- Marcello's builds success from ashes of tragedy
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- Bad things can't keep a good man, or his family, down. Octavio Perez came to Yuba City four years ago with his wife, Alma, and twin sons, Dominick and Nicholas, to open an Italian restaurant, because, "When I started in the restaurant business in... Full story
Eat Around the World
- Warm up to a bowl of chili
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- This week we are visiting the U.S.A. to prepare one of my favorite winter dishes, Chili. I like to make chili in a hundred different ways, so there is not one recipe, per se, that I always follow, but here is one of my favorite "recipes" for chili.... Full story
Culinary Odyssey
- Persian duck is festive for holiday dinner
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- This Mediterranean dish is Café Collage's recipe. It originates from Persia and is an exotic sweet-sour dish. Like the duck confit, it is slow cooked, and as the fat is released, the duck bakes in its own fat. The fat is then used to preserve... Full story
Joe Sixpack
- Female beer pros prove suds aren't just for the guys
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- Babes and beer go together like mud and wrestling, which is to say it's a guy thing. Which, incidentally, explains why so many women reach for the grape instead of grain. Their first taste of suds came at a noisy high school party, where... Full story
