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Eric’s EZ Lemongrass Maple Granita

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Here’s another granita recipe that was intended for last Wednesday’s Chronicle FOOD story. This one hit a hurdle in the testing stage: the oh-so-convenient Gourmet Garden prepared lemongrass had all but disappeared from supermarket shelves. Since a recipe that began with “Beat the hell out of lemongrass stalks, puree them and then [...]

Tags: Breakaway Cook, Eric Gower, granita

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Loving Lemon Verbena

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Lemon verbena is the herbal equivalent of The Eggplant that Ate Chicago. It starts out as a wee little slip of a plant in a 4-inch container and by mid-summer it’s taller than corn in Kansas. I like how it looks both in the garden and in flower arrangements, but I never [...]

Tags: granita, lemon verbena, Michelle Polzine, Rang restaurant

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Perfection Found

Monday, August 6th, 2007

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Should Heston Blumenthal be planning a sequel to “In Search of Perfection,” he doesn’t have to crisscross the world in search of the perfect hoagie. It exists, as it has for 53 years, at [...]

Tags: heston blumenthal, hoagie, Ocean City, voltaco's

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Sweeter than Mother’s Love

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

My feelings about yellow-kernel corn on the cob can be summed up by a question a French friend once asked: “Is that not something one feeds to the horses?”But corn with tiny white kernels — grown in South Jersey, harvested early in the morning, heaped on a wooden table in a vegetable stand [...]

Tags: grilling corn

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