From their big debut in the 1990s from chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten to their ever-presence on dessert menus since, chocolate molten lava cakes are easily one of the most trodden tropes of the restaurant world. There are enough riffs on it out there to fill two internets; does anyone need another? …
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Somewhere it is written, or it is now, that if your mom is a gazillion (cough, 35 weeks and 4 days, not that anyone is counting) weeks pregnant and she is the one that under ideal circumstances provides you with dinner, sooner or later that dinner is going to be …
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What makes a recipe great? In my head, there’s a list of ten things and eight of them are different ways of saying the first one, which is “It works.” It works. For everyone. In every kitchen. Without requiring an advanced cooking degree or preexisting mastery of obscure techniques. Or …
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