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Tasty links

Here are some of my current favorite sites in the food world. I'd love to know what sites you enjoy, please let me know in the comments section! Chowhound is my first stop for restaurant info, wherever I may be in the world. This is a lively community with highly opinionated posters. It also has cooking and general info boards. Chowhound is a subsection of chow.com , a broader food site with curated recipes, articles, videos and so on. It's also the home of Ruth Bourdain  the bastard child of Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain.  Like so many, I mourned the loss of Gourmet Magazine. The Gourmet website is great, with well written articles and luscious recipes. It's a bit sales oriented, so you do need to slog through, but I have found some real gems here. Foodgawker is food porn at its best. Lovely pictures entice you to make even lovelier recipes. food52 is a food community, with recipes and articles submitted by users and vetted by chefs.  101cookbooks is a lovely

The Oscars, a recipe and a terrible pun

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My friend Ilene hosts an Oscars' party every year. It's a lot of fun - witty people commenting on clothing, presenters and award winners. There are two contests at this party. You can win a cash prize (everyone chips in) if you guess the most Oscar winners. Or you can win the dubious Urn of Shame for your pot luck contribution. Everyone brings a dish related somehow to one of the films or people nominated. I am both proud and dismayed to report that my partner Kevin Brooks and I won this year. We brought (may I have the envelope please) Natalie Port-man in Black Flan, a pun on Black Swan . A bottle of port wearing a tutu and tiara carefully nestled in cocoa dusted flan. You can see it for yourself. I had feared flan would be really hard to make, but to my delight it was actually easy. I also think I'll continue dusting it with cocoa - the bitterness balances the sweetness quite nicely. The recipe I used included cream cheese, which makes it a bit more stable (appropri

Giving things away - 1970s cookbooks

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As you know, I've decided to give some things away. You've always wanted to know how to make a Hot House, right? (It's limburger cheese with butter on toast.) How about Pumpkin and Cheese pie? Or Flamenco Veal Chops? All of these recipes and more are in this set of cookbooks. As you may know, I've been helping a friend clean out his mom's house . We've found quite a few amazing things there, including a trove of cookbooks. She enjoyed cooking in her younger days and would pick up every free cooking pamphlet she could find. I love cookbooks and so have taken many of them for my own collection. There is no way I will ever use all the cookbooks I have. This selection of cookbooks is from my friend's mom. You might enjoy the recipes, you might enjoy the astonishing 1960s and 1970s illustrations. I can't wait to see how dated our 2011 graphics look in 40 years. This package includes: 100 Ways to Be Original In All Your Cooking (by Lea & Perri