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Lionfish: Eating Our Way Out of a Problem

There’s been a lot of media coverage lately about how the invasive lionfish can make a tasty dish. But what I’ve been wanting to know is whether lionfish is worth the trouble to eat.

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Shirley Corriher writes The Book on Baking

* * * Listen to this Audio Bite! * * * Shirley O. Corriher’s new book Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking is food chemistry for the common folk. To me, it is like a wizard’s book of spells. This tome contains 200 recipes for cookies, breads, cakes, icing, and tarts both savory [...]

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Audio Bite: The 100-Mile Diet

Cooking locally is very different. Instead of cracking open a cookbook and seeing that list of ingredients and going out and buying all of those things, you’re doing the opposite. You’re going out and seeing what’s available, what’s in season right now, bringing it home and then saying, “How can I turn that into good [...]

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