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The Family Dish: Spring Vegetable and Shrimp Risotto

May 2, 2011

I’m excited to tell you about a new weekly online feature that my daughter, Adriana, and I (and occasionally the boys in our family) are contributing to The Washington Post’s food blog All We Can Eat. It’s called The Family Dish and it debuts today. In it, we will share some of our favorite family [...]

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Christmas Eve Calamari on Leite’s Culinaria

December 21, 2010

(photo by William Meppem for Chronicle Books) What does Christmas smell like to you? Maybe it’s the sharp, resinous scent of freshly cut pine trees or the warm, enveloping fragrance of cinnamon and nuts in freshly baked cookies. But to me, Christmas smells like squid…Read more about my favorite Christmas Eve dish on Leite’s Culinaria.

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Message In a Bowl

November 15, 2010

You can tell a thing or two about people by the way they make oatmeal. Take, for example, my dad. Occasionally on a cold winter morning he would make oatmeal for my sister and me before school. It was…edible. Strictly utilitarian, Dad’s oatmeal was cooked in water, with a little brown sugar stirred in at [...]

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