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The Wine Seminar
Pietro's 3-hour wine seminar covering tasting, descriptors, vineyard practices, winemaking, and food pairings.


10 Ways Fish Sauce Can Make Our Western Cooking Better
10 ways to use fish sauce to make cooking a bit better


Recipe - Pistachio Olive Oil Cake
This recipe has gone through many iterations (as have I) since I started working it in 2007. It was originally based on recipes from...


My Ode to the Oxtail
Here is a hint for those who like to cook - use oxtail. Yes, it looks like a giant denuded penis and yes, it is actually the tail which...


Espelette - The Devil and the Details
I remember my first espelette. I am only about 50% on the anniversary, and sometimes the car is not where it was left, but I remember...
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