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Light And Fresh: Cold Cucumber Chile Noodles

These refreshing vegan cucumber chile noodles from recipe developer Lauren Toyota are a dish best served cold. For real, though.

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Whip Up This Vegan Pastel De Choclo

Restaurant veterans Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse have crafted seriously delicious recipes using no animal products at all. Ever had vegan pastel de choclo?

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What Are The Different Types Of Sea Urchin?

If you’ve had the good fortune of eating sea urchin (uni), you know that there’s nothing that tastes quite like it. It’s buttery and eggy, and some claim to pick up hints of the ocean between bites. With all that being said, there really isn’t one single item that can be accurately compared to the…

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The Many Faces Of The Pisco Sour

Latin America’s influence on cocktails has resulted in numerous iconic inventions, with one of the more overlooked classics being the pisco sour. Though the drink is often made with lime, many hold that the pisco sour is properly made with lemon, hence its arguable lineage from either the whiskey sour or the silver fizz. As…

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Way Better Beef: Chile-Stuffed Steak Recipe

Your cookbook inventory is not complete without a volume or two from best-selling cookbook author and food writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins. For the olive oil fan, her new book, Virgin Territory, is essential. Part olive oil primer and part olive oil recipe goldmine, Jenkins's guide to all things EVOO will revolutionize the way you make…

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The Slanted Door's Famous Pork-And-Shrimp Wontons With Spicy Chile Oil Recipe

Charles Phan, chef-owner of San Francisco's pioneering the Slanted Door, was boiling up bowls of Vietnamese noodle soup long before most Americans had ever heard of pho — or knew how to pronounce it properly. That is to say, way before it was cool. In his second cookbook, a tribute to the chef's modern restaurant in the Ferry…

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Black Bass With Oranges And Ancho Chile Oil Recipe

Radio/television personality Angie Martinez and chef/television personality Angelo Sosa might seem like an unlikely pair to team-up for a cookbook. But paging through their new book, Healthy Latin Eating, it’s clear that this is no forced vanity project. Martinez, who is known as the “Voice of New York” from her time on Hot 97, is passionate about healthy…

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Hocus Pocus Cocktail Recipe

While the holidays are often filled with spices like nutmeg, allspice, clove and cinnamon, the unfortunate part is that the vehicle for these spices often arrives in the form of sickeningly sweet, nog-derived drinks that are about as subtle as an ugly Christmas sweater. A better approach is to look outside of the standard holiday…

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Prosciutto Wrapped Oysters Recipe

Chefs Ron Oliver and Bernard Guillas of the renowned Marine Room in La Jolla, CA have released the follow-up to their popular self-published cookbook, Two Chefs, One World. Their new book, Two Chefs, One Catch, focuses exclusively on the bounty of the sea, and how to prepare it masterfully for every fish lover you know.…

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Hot Stuff: Harold Dieterle's Thai-Style Fried Chicken Recipe

What's the only thing better that a cookbook by an awesome chef? A notebook by an awesome chef like Harold Dieterle. The Top Chef season 1 winner and chef/owner of popular NYC restaurants Kin Shop, The Marrow and Perilla just launched Harold Dieterle's Kitchen Notebook, a collection of recipes influenced by Italian, Thai and German…

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Slow Cooked Curried Chickpeas Recipe

Slow-cooker chili is great, but if you're looking for a "set it and forget it" recipe with a little more spice, pick up a copy of author Neela Paniz's The New Indian Slow Cooker. This collection of classic Indian recipes made even simpler with your slow-cooker is a surefire way to ease into fall and…

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Make Salt And Pepper Squid At Home! Here's A Great Recipe.

If the vast world of spices, whole and ground, seems a little exotic to you, pick up a copy of chef and cookbook author Paul Merrett's Spice Odyssey. Learn the basics of commonly used spices, then branch out and apply your knowledge to dishes from everyday classic to never-before-seen global specialties. First up, every food…

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Tingling, Baby: How To Make Cumin Lamb Stir-Fry At Home

If you're ready to take on the wide world of home butchering, make sure you pick up a copy of The Meat Hook Meat Book. Tom Mylan, co-owner and executive chef at the Brooklyn sustainable butcher shop wrote this formidable tome that's equal parts butchery handbook and recipes — for that which you just butchered,…

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Lamb, Orange And Chile Kebabs Recipe

World-renowned chef and author Maria Elia's new Greek cookbook, Smashing Plates, was inspired by the cuisine at her father's tavern in Cyprus. Greek pub food. Sound like a winning formula? We combed through this page-turner and came up with a few recipes to share. Fire up the grill for these spicy, citrus-marinated lamb kebabs. Lamb is…

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Around The World In 80 Wine Varietals: Sauvignon Blanc

In Around The World In 80 Wine Varietals, contributor Chantal Martineau unearths how a particular grape drinks differently around the globe. What can you say about a wine commonly likened to cat pee? In the kinds of bars where you probably shouldn’t order wine to begin with, you’ll often be given the choice between a…

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Did You Know That Pisco Is A Place, Too?

Pisco is a clear grape brandy that most people recognize as the main ingredient in a pisco sour, a cocktail created nearly a century ago when an American bartender working in Peru allegedly ran out of whiskey for a whiskey sour and decided to use the local moonshine instead. Pisco is also a small, sleepy…

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South America: The Beer Lover's Guide To Patagonia

Patagonian beer aficionados flock to Cerveza Baguales’ microbrewery and pub in Puerto Natales, Chile.[/caption] Puerto Natales brewer Dario Matus' rich, golden-amber Singular ale is a local favorite.[/caption] The New York Yankees of South American drinking, the wines of Chile and Argentina have fans all over the world. While their Malbecs and Carmeneres are justifiably renowned,…

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Apple Cider–Chile Butter Sauce Recipe

Looking for a new savory sauce for your arsenal, especially during the chilly late autumn/winter months? Make this apple cider-chile butter sauce and drizzle it over a fried ham steak, grilled sausages served with braised cabbage and onions, or roasted brussels sprouts.A little of this sauce goes a long way, which is why the recipe yields…

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Olive Oil-Poached Veal With Lobster Schnitzel Recipe

Schnitzel is making a comeback. I walk by the schnitzel truck in NYC all the time — it's always busy and I love schnitzel! I had the idea to try a lobster schnitzel in a Veal Oscar dish, which is traditionally veal and crab meat, but I thought the pan-fried lobster with smooth extra virgin…

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24 Hours To Eat In Santiago, Chile

Chile long suffered from a culinary identity crisis. Its high-end restaurants served that dreaded cuisine referred to as international, while its traditional dishes were relegated to the status of diner food. In the last few years, however, Chilean chefs have started embracing their mothers’ recipes, as well as indigenous ingredients, and taking the country’s cuisine…

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Chile: Breaking Bread With The Mapuche Tribe

[caption id="attachment_62064" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Elisa Cea Epuin mixes up traditional Mapuche foods with modern baked goods.[/caption][caption id="attachment_62065" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Oversized roasted pine nuts called piñones.[/caption] You might say the Mapuche, a native tribe found in south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, were once the fiercest in all the Americas. It’s not that the Mapuche…

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Chicken Chile Relleno Pies Recipe

There is now a San Francisco fan base for this pie. I tested and tweaked the recipe given to us by the folks at Oh my! Pocket Pies, in Houston, Texas, producing multiple batches that I shared with friends. The response was amazing: these pies got the loudest cheers of any pie in this book.…

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5 Reasons To Drink Chilean Wine Right Now

In February of 2010, a devastating earthquake hit Chile right around the start of the grape harvest there. In wine-producing regions, the media described “rivers of wine” flowing – tanks and barrels that had been smashed or overturned spilled their contents out into the streets. The smell permeated the air. It took some time for…

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Meet Mr. Takedown, Matt Timms

Food competitions have become big moneymakers for the Food Network and major food festivals around the country. But, according to Matt Timms, the creator of The Takedown, there’s something that gets lost on those sanitized, sound-stage kitchens. “Everyone is so entitled,” Timms says. “There’s no passion in it. At a Takedown, you see real cooks…

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Tomatillo And Chile Wings In Corn Husks

After grilling tamales, salmon and shrimp in corn husks, I decided to experiment with grilling wings in corn husks. The results were fantastic. The husks seal in the juices, giving you moist wings straight off the grill. Find corn husks in any Latin grocery and buy a 50-pack. While you're making Mexican wings, you might…

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5 Exotic Spices Worth Hunting For

Peter Bahlawanian, owner of Spice Station’s two Los Angeles locations and a just-opened Montreal store, offered up his 5 Essential Spices on Food Republic last week. This time around, the spice expert digs deep in the cupboards to bring out 5 exotic spices worth hunting for:Truffle salt“Everybody’s into truffle oil now, but I find truffle…

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Sweet Chile Dipping Sauce Recipe

This versatile dipping sauce is the perfect addition to salt and pepper shrimp. Sriracha and red pepper flakes give it a kick, while the sugar adds a balancing sweetness.

By Maureen C. Petrosky Read More