I don’t own a lot of cookbooks - I’m always tempted to purchase them and have been known to wander the food section of Williams-Sonoma aimlessly, fingering glossy pages of meringue and short ribs and paella until shop clerks start looking at me like I’m a culinary junkie/vagrant. The deal is, I know myself well, and myself rarely cooks from a book. I have several standard dishes that I know how to make by heart and can vary at a moment’s notice to mirror the contents of my pantry, and if I’m i
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009