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It’s Sauce Season

With temperatures in New York finally dipping into the 30’s, for the first time since last winter, it’s time to make sauce. Sauce means you know what you’re having for dinner before you eat breakfast. Sauce is that fabulous smell of slowing simmering tomatoes that permeates the entire house. Sauce is when eight friends drop [...]

A Minimalist Becomes Manifestoist

Mark Bittman is one of the simplest food writers anywhere. His Minimalist column, as the title suggests, was as much common sense as culinary skills. If Hemingway wrote a cookbook, it would read like Bittman’s “How To Cook Everything.” And him and Claudia Bassols were the only watchable parts of the somehow unwatchable “Spain: On [...]