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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/luigi-doorway.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/luigi-doorway.jpg\" alt=\"luigi doorway\" title=\"luigi doorway\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53341\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucked away inside a cozy storefront along the quaint corridor of Temescal Alley is north Oakland's newest coffee shop, \u003ca href=\"http://luigioldani.org/\" target=\"_blank\">The CRO Cafe\u003c/a>. Owner Luigi Oldani named his business after his daughter, Camille Rosemary, and officially opened its doors on a First Friday art walk this past November. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/sign.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/sign.jpg\" alt=\"sign\" title=\"sign\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53331\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to having a permanent brick-and-mortar location, Oldani held pop-ups at the now-defunct Cafe Fanny in Berkeley (currently the home of \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BartavelleCoffeeWine\" target=\"_blank\">Bartavelle\u003c/a>). While they were remodeling, Oldani rolled in with his coffee cart everyday for three months during the summer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He'd also host open houses with espresso at his metal fabrication shop, Oldani Art Studio, where he runs his other full-time enterprise creating custom furnishings for local businesses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The shop is a spot where we make anything and everything,\" he says. \"Mostly the big jobs have been build-outs for cafes and restaurants. We opened up three La Boulange restaurants right before they sold out to Starbucks. We did a whole bunch of tables, counters, bars, handrails, stairways -- lots of architectural details. Our showpiece space is the work that we did at \u003ca href=\"http://sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Sightglass\u003c/a>, which was collaborative. We didn't do all of the metalwork over there, but we did some.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/joseph-luigi.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/joseph-luigi.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Luigi\" title=\"Joseph Luigi\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53384\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oldani is a former mechanical engineer, so he enjoys the process of coming up with solutions for spaces -- especially for his own tiny cafe. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's 170-square-feet, so there's not a lot of electricity or amenities. It was a challenge to figure out how to get in and operate.\" He and the group of friends he regularly works with at his studio designed everything for the interior just a few weeks before opening. Oldani says there's still lots of items on his to-do list, including adding more shelving for retail products, finishing up planter boxes for vines that will snake up towards the counter, an awning, producing a copper-clad storefront using scraps from his dad's art studio, and most importantly, \"get a sign so that people can see that there's a little hole-in-the-wall spot to get coffee.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"53301,53299,53302,53307,53309,53324,53332, 53333,53340,53303\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to do a coffee business long before I knew what good coffee was,\" Oldani chuckles. Disenchanted with his engineering job, he started to look for a different outlet. Oldani got the idea that, \"running a coffee shop would get me a better work-life balance where I'd get to interact with people on a more personal level and hand my work product directly over to the person who was going to be consuming it. And to really be able to do that in a much shorter cycle than I was able to do as an engineer.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oldani's former job did help inform his next career path. \"With coffee, there's a bit of an idealization of the machinery. Coffee people tend to take their gear and their preparation really seriously. Coffee in itself is a volatile and tricky product to prepare well. And so the disciplined process and art of production and equipment appealed to me.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"slideshow\" link=\"none\" size=\"full\" ids=\"53300,53336,53316,53329,53337,53306,53317\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His work at \u003ca href=\"http://sightglasscoffee.com/\">Sightglass\u003c/a> helped inspire him to transition out of his engineering job and pursue coffee as one of his next ventures. It was through his interactions with its proprietors that Oldani became serious about how he tasted and brewed coffee. He attended their training sessions to supplement his own independent study efforts and practiced brewing coffee at his art studio for two years. Oldani slowly acquired his equipment over time, including a vintage La San Marco espresso coffee machine that was formerly used at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/09/21/processing-the-pig-a-weekly-ritual-at-oliveto/\" target=\"_blank\">Oliveto\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/luigi-pour-milk.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/luigi-pour-milk.jpg\" alt=\"luigi pour milk\" title=\"luigi pour milk\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53318\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have an affinity for the lever mechanism. A lot of the new machines are trying to duplicate what the old machines inherently do with the lever. There's a quick, ramping up of pressure at the beginning of the shot which tapers off to a lower pressure at the end. And the newer machines try to do it by controlling pumps and a lot of electronics, whereas this machine is almost all mechanism. And it does a really beautiful job of the exact same thing mechanically, which also happens to make it a really great machine for doing portable business as it requires less electricity and is more of a workhorse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its coffee drinks, CRO Cafe also serves up a delicious hot chocolate. Oldani's fiancee and business partner, Sacha Badme, honed her culinary skills by taking a chocolate class at \u003ca href=\"http://tantemarie.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Tante Marie's cooking school\u003c/a>. She uses unsweetened TCHO chocolate as the base and creates her own custom blend that imparts a rich sweetness to their warm confection. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/hot-chocolate-overhead.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/hot-chocolate-overhead.jpg\" alt=\"hot chocolate overhead\" title=\"hot chocolate overhead\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53311\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking ahead to the future, Oldani is currently converting an antique milk truck into a mobile espresso truck and hopes to roll it out in the East Bay in the near future. He's also building food service tricycles for the Exploratorium and hopes the experience will spur his ability to finish the truck soon. While he has no plans to roast his own coffee -- \"although I could totally see a time when that would be really compelling and could see myself becoming obsessed with it\" -- Oldani plans to keep a limited menu at CRO Cafe to keep the focus on serving great espresso drinks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing that is compelling to me is that there's so much mediocre coffee available and maybe it's a better business model. But there's a growing interest in fanatical preparation and sourcing the highest quality ingredients. It feels like we're serving people who are only interested in that, although that's a much smaller segment of the market. The larger roasteries and multiple cafe outlets really control the cost of a cup of coffee and have the advantage of bigger vertical integration in that they source, roast and distribute on a larger scale so their margins are better than ours. But if you spend a lot of time and money trying to make the best coffee, people do appreciate it. I'm hoping that this market will increase, and I'm really excited to see that growth and be a part of that.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/red-espresso-blue-mug.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/red-espresso-blue-mug.jpg\" alt=\"red espresso blue mug\" title=\"red espresso blue mug\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53385\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/rainy-day-customers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/rainy-day-customers.jpg\" alt=\"rainy day customers\" title=\"rainy day customers\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53323\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Information:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://thecrocafe.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cro Cafe\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTemescal Alley 49 (\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/WL7KJ\">Map\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nOakland, CA 94609\u003cbr>\nHours: Everyday 7am-6pm\u003cbr>\nFacebook: \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-CRO-Cafe/172739959429223\" target=\"_blank\">The CRO Cafe\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nTwitter: \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TheCROCafe\" target=\"_blank\">@TheCROCafe\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nPrice range: $ (Entrees $10 and under)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Post by by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/26/167819082/dont-fear-that-expired-food\">The Salt\u003c/a>, NPR Food\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the story from NPR's Morning Edition (12/26/12):\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2012/12/20121226_me_11.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53456\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/juice-milk.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/juice-milk.jpg\" alt=\"The expiration date on foods like orange juice and even milk aren't indicators of when those products will go bad.\" title=\"The expiration date on foods like orange juice and even milk aren't indicators of when those products will go bad.\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53456\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The expiration date on foods like orange juice and even milk aren't indicators of when those products will go bad. Photo: iStockphoto.com\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now that the Christmas feast is over, you may be looking at all the extra food you made, or the food that you brought home from the store that never even got opened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you may be wondering: How long can I keep this? What if it's past its expiration date? Who even comes up with those dates on food, anyway, and what do they mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the short answer: Those \"sell by\" dates are there to protect the reputation of the food. They have very little to do with food safety. If you're worried whether food is still OK to eat, just smell it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the places that knows most about the shelf life of food is a scientific establishment in Livermore, Calif., called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenfl.com/\">National Food Lab\u003c/a>. At the NFL, they put food on shelves for days, or weeks, or even years, to see how it holds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, they'll try to accelerate the process with 90-degree heat and high humidity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then, from time to time, they'll take some of the food — whether it's bagged salad greens, breakfast cereal, or fruit juice — off the shelf and place it in front of a highly trained panel of experts who check the taste and smell and texture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You would think that everybody can taste and smell food, but some of us are much better at it than others,\" says Jena Roberts, vice president for business development at the NFL. The lab has 40 of these food tasters on staff. \"They are the most fit people in the group,\" says Roberts. \"Because they don't eat the food. They expectorate it. Which is a fancy college word for spit it in a cup.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experts give the food grades, in numbers. The numbers go down as the food gets older. Bread gets stale. Salad dressings can start to taste rancid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ift.org/about-us/our-leadership/john-ruff.aspx\">John Ruff\u003c/a>, president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ift.org/\">Institute of Food Technologists\u003c/a> in Chicago, says the companies that sell this food take a look at those grades and decide where they will draw the line, to protect the reputation of their products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the product was designed, let's say, to be a 7 when it was fresh, you may choose that at 6.2, it's gotten to the point where [you] don't want it to be on the market anymore,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it's 6.0, would most people still find it reasonably good? Absolutely,\" he says. \"But companies want people to taste their products as best they can at the optimum, because that's how they maintain their business and their market shares.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is all organized and carried out by food companies; there's no \u003ca href=\"http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Fact_Sheets/Food_Product_Dating/\">federal law\u003c/a> that requires dates on any food except for infant formula, although some states do require sell-by dates on milk or meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, these dates don't really tell you anything about whether food is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Ruff, most products are safe to eat long after their expiration date. In fact, even meat or milk that's clearly starting to spoil is not necessarily dangerous. \"Very often, you won't eat it because of the smell, and you probably won't like the taste, but in a lot of cases, it's unlikely to cause you illness,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because it's not the food that sat on the shelf too long that makes you sick, Ruff says. It's the food that got contaminated with salmonella or listeria bacteria, or disease-causing strains of \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em>. And that food might not smell bad as it might have arrived in the store only yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In 40 years, in eight countries, if I think of major product recalls and food poisoning outbreaks, I can't think of [one] that was driven by a shelf-life issue,\" Ruff says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canned food, in particular, can stay safe for a really long time. In 1974, scientists at the National Food Processors Association in Washington, D.C., got their hands on several \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1983.tb10815.x/abstract\">old cans\u003c/a> of food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Dudek, now semi-retired and living in Vienna, Va., was among the scientists who analyzed this old food. Her assignment was a can of corn, vintage 1934, that was found in someone's basement in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they opened the can, Dudek says, the contents looked and smelled pretty much like ordinary canned corn. Analysis showed that it had most of the usual complement of nutrients — although there were lower levels of a few, such as vitamin C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Results were similar for century-old canned oysters, tomatoes and red peppers in cans recovered from a sunken steamboat, buried in river silt near Omaha, Neb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dudek says, as far as she knows, nobody actually tasted this food. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\" alt=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" title=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When was the last time you had a salad? Not a third glass of \u003ca href=\"http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-eggnog\">Straus eggnog\u003c/a>, not a fourth frosted-snowman cookie, not a plate of short ribs oozing into polenta, but something crunchy and made of actual vegetables rather than equal parts bacon, croutons, and blue cheese. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we know: holiday chip-n-dips, Aunt Mavis's much-loved, once-a-year rum balls and better-than-sex bars, peppermint Jo-Jo's singing their siren song. Not to mention the greasy, porky, Spanx-busting allure of pigs-in-a-blanket after three hours of an open bar at your boyfriend's company Christmas party. At this time of year, where can you go, short of a \u003ca href=\"http://sfzc.org/green-gulch\">Green Gulch retreat\u003c/a>, and not find yourself facedown in fondue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, take it from me, you need a salad right about now. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I worked for a biodynamic farm at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City a few years ago, we sold bags of greenhouse-grown mache for something like $6 a quarter-pound. And New Yorkers in fur hats and down coats bought the stuff by the pillowcase-sized bagful, because the only other fresh and local options were potatoes and turnips. Long, snowy months would have pass before April, when the first fresh offerings would be pungent, oniony ramps and a handful of foraged fiddleheads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here, where it's cold enough for hot toddies and sweaters but rarely below freezing, the markets are still in full color-jolted swing. At the Berkeley farmers' market last Thursday, there were inky-purple carrots and kale, pink-hearted watermelon radishes, Spanish radishes black as dirt, Tyler Gold pears and Black Twig apples, persimmons, mandarins, and Meyer lemons glowing like Christmas-tree lights, ruby chard, Boston lettuce, fennel, sweet Japanese turnips, butternut squash and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salads in summer require no thought, only a lavish hand with the tomatoes and basil. In winter, salads are best when composed with a little more artistry, as an integral, balancing part of the meal rather than a lettuce-and-croutons afterthought. So, armed with the crunchy bounty of the winter solstice, now's the time to discover pleasures beyond the hunkered-down hibernation of roasted roots and mashed potatoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RECIPE: \u003cstrong>White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\nAs crisp and chic as a freshly pressed white shirt. You can make this salad strictly white-on-white, with thinly slivered endive, fennel, and celery heart scattered with half-moons of sweet Tokyo (also known as Japanese or hakurei) turnip over pale fronds of frisee or escarole, perhaps with segments of white grapefruit or pomelo added for their juicy acidity. Or you can add a zing of color with ruby grapefruit and/or thin slices of magenta-centered watermelon radish, as shown here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\" alt=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" title=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its cool crunch and mild bitterness makes a perfect foil for richly flavored wintery dishes, like braised duck legs or French lentils braised in red wine. Because watermelon radishes can be tougher than your typical small red-skinned radish, it's a good idea to shave them as thinly as possible, using a mandoline or the slicing disk of a food processor. Topped with fresh Dungeness crab and an extra squeeze of Meyer lemon, this salad can become a meal in itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep Time:\u003c/strong> 20 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Total Time:\u003c/strong> 20 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Yield:\u003c/strong> 4 servings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2 bulbs fennel, halved\u003cbr>\n2 heads endive, halved\u003cbr>\n4 Japanese turnips, halved\u003cbr>\n3-4 stalks of celery from the heart\u003cbr>\n1 watermelon radish, peeled, or 1 daikon radish, peeled\u003cbr>\n1 grapefruit or pomelo, peeled and segmented\u003cbr>\npale center leaves from 1 head frisee, escarole, or butter (Boston) lettuce\u003cbr>\nSlivered rind and juice of 1 Meyer lemon\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vinaigrette:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJuice of 1 Meyer lemon\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon white wine vinegar or white balsamic vinegar\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon finely minced shallot\u003cbr>\n1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil\u003cbr>\nSalt and freshly ground pepper to taste\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. Let minced shallot macerate in lemon juice, vinegar, salt, and pepper while you prepare the salad. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Cut fennel, endive, and celery into thin slices on the diagonal. Slice turnips into thin half-moons. If you have a mandoline, shave watermelon radish or daikon into very thin slices; otherwise, cut as thinly as you can. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Toss sliced vegetables with juice of 1 lemon to prevent browning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Cut grapefruit or pomelo in half through the equator. Using a small sharp knife, cut out wedges of fruit, leaving membranes attached to the rind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Whisk olive oil into shallot-vinegar mixture. Taste for seasoning, adding pepper, more salt, lemon juice, or olive oil as needed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Toss greens, sliced vegetables, and Meyer lemon rind with half the dressing. Taste and add more dressing as needed. Arrange on a platter or individual plates. Top with grapefruit wedges and a sprinkle of sea salt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RECIPE: \u003cstrong>Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm warning you: don't think you can make the toasted, sugar-and-cayenne-dusted pecans used to garnish this salad anytime but right before you serve it. Not because they won't keep--in fact, they'll be just fine made several days in advance--but they're so good, so nutty-crunchy hot and sweet, that your guests will sweep through the kitchen like locusts and hoover up every last nut before you've even folded a napkin or put out a wine glass. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\" title=\"Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This recipe is adapted from a dish I had, and loved, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baywolf.com/\">Bay Wolf\u003c/a> in Oakland (still going strong after 37 years), and was delighted to find in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082602/kqedorg-20\">Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook\u003c/a>. A mainstay on my Thanksgiving table, it's just as good, and colorfully cheering, throughout the winter. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2008/11/06/fuyu-persimmons/\">Fuyu persimmons\u003c/a> are the round, yellow-orange, flattish ones, which can be eaten while firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep Time: \u003c/strong>20 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cook Time:\u003c/strong> 15 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Total Time: \u003c/strong>35 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Yield: \u003c/strong>4 servings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Pecans:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1 cup pecan halves\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 tablespoons sugar\u003cbr>\n1/4 teaspoon sea salt\u003cbr>\ncayenne pepper to taste\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Dressing:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n1 shallot, minced\u003cbr>\n2 sprigs fresh thyme\u003cbr>\n2 tablespoons white wine or champagne vinegar\u003cbr>\nSalt and freshly ground pepper\u003cbr>\n1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Salad:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n2 generous handfuls arugula leaves\u003cbr>\n3 generous handfuls mixed salad greens\u003cbr>\n3 Fuyu persimmons, sliced in thin wedges\u003cbr>\nSeeds of 1 pomegranate\u003cbr>\n4 ounces soft, fresh goat cheese (chevre), crumbled\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. To make pecans: Preheat oven to 325ºF. Fill a medium-sized saucepan with water and bring to a boil. When water is boiling, drop in pecans and blanch for 2 minutes. Drain. Toss wet pecans with sugar, salt, and a gentle sprinkle of cayenne. Spread out on a baking sheet and bake, stirring occasionally to keep nuts from clumping, until dry and toasty, 10-15 minutes. Remove pan from the oven and scoop nuts onto a plate to cool. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. While pecans are baking, strip thyme leaves off the stalk and let shallots and thyme leaves macerate in the vinegar for at least 20 minutes. Whisk in salt, pepper, and olive oil. Taste for seasoning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Just before serving, toss greens and persimmon wedges with half the dressing, adding more as needed. Arrange on individual plates. Top each serving with pomegranate seeds, pecans, and crumbled goat cheese. Sprinkle with a little sea salt and drizzle on a little more dressing if needed. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\" alt=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" title=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When was the last time you had a salad? Not a third glass of \u003ca href=\"http://strausfamilycreamery.com/products/item/organic-eggnog\">Straus eggnog\u003c/a>, not a fourth frosted-snowman cookie, not a plate of short ribs oozing into polenta, but something crunchy and made of actual vegetables rather than equal parts bacon, croutons, and blue cheese. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, we know: holiday chip-n-dips, Aunt Mavis's much-loved, once-a-year rum balls and better-than-sex bars, peppermint Jo-Jo's singing their siren song. Not to mention the greasy, porky, Spanx-busting allure of pigs-in-a-blanket after three hours of an open bar at your boyfriend's company Christmas party. At this time of year, where can you go, short of a \u003ca href=\"http://sfzc.org/green-gulch\">Green Gulch retreat\u003c/a>, and not find yourself facedown in fondue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, take it from me, you need a salad right about now. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I worked for a biodynamic farm at the Union Square Greenmarket in New York City a few years ago, we sold bags of greenhouse-grown mache for something like $6 a quarter-pound. And New Yorkers in fur hats and down coats bought the stuff by the pillowcase-sized bagful, because the only other fresh and local options were potatoes and turnips. Long, snowy months would have pass before April, when the first fresh offerings would be pungent, oniony ramps and a handful of foraged fiddleheads. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here, where it's cold enough for hot toddies and sweaters but rarely below freezing, the markets are still in full color-jolted swing. At the Berkeley farmers' market last Thursday, there were inky-purple carrots and kale, pink-hearted watermelon radishes, Spanish radishes black as dirt, Tyler Gold pears and Black Twig apples, persimmons, mandarins, and Meyer lemons glowing like Christmas-tree lights, ruby chard, Boston lettuce, fennel, sweet Japanese turnips, butternut squash and more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salads in summer require no thought, only a lavish hand with the tomatoes and basil. In winter, salads are best when composed with a little more artistry, as an integral, balancing part of the meal rather than a lettuce-and-croutons afterthought. So, armed with the crunchy bounty of the winter solstice, now's the time to discover pleasures beyond the hunkered-down hibernation of roasted roots and mashed potatoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RECIPE: \u003cstrong>White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/strong>.\u003cbr>\nAs crisp and chic as a freshly pressed white shirt. You can make this salad strictly white-on-white, with thinly slivered endive, fennel, and celery heart scattered with half-moons of sweet Tokyo (also known as Japanese or hakurei) turnip over pale fronds of frisee or escarole, perhaps with segments of white grapefruit or pomelo added for their juicy acidity. Or you can add a zing of color with ruby grapefruit and/or thin slices of magenta-centered watermelon radish, as shown here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53435\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000.jpg\" alt=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" title=\"White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53435\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White-on-White Salad: Endive, Tokyo Turnips, Fennel, & Grapefruit\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Its cool crunch and mild bitterness makes a perfect foil for richly flavored wintery dishes, like braised duck legs or French lentils braised in red wine. Because watermelon radishes can be tougher than your typical small red-skinned radish, it's a good idea to shave them as thinly as possible, using a mandoline or the slicing disk of a food processor. Topped with fresh Dungeness crab and an extra squeeze of Meyer lemon, this salad can become a meal in itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep Time:\u003c/strong> 20 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Total Time:\u003c/strong> 20 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Yield:\u003c/strong> 4 servings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2 bulbs fennel, halved\u003cbr>\n2 heads endive, halved\u003cbr>\n4 Japanese turnips, halved\u003cbr>\n3-4 stalks of celery from the heart\u003cbr>\n1 watermelon radish, peeled, or 1 daikon radish, peeled\u003cbr>\n1 grapefruit or pomelo, peeled and segmented\u003cbr>\npale center leaves from 1 head frisee, escarole, or butter (Boston) lettuce\u003cbr>\nSlivered rind and juice of 1 Meyer lemon\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Vinaigrette:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nJuice of 1 Meyer lemon\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon white wine vinegar or white balsamic vinegar\u003cbr>\n1 tablespoon finely minced shallot\u003cbr>\n1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil\u003cbr>\nSalt and freshly ground pepper to taste\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. Let minced shallot macerate in lemon juice, vinegar, salt, and pepper while you prepare the salad. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Cut fennel, endive, and celery into thin slices on the diagonal. Slice turnips into thin half-moons. If you have a mandoline, shave watermelon radish or daikon into very thin slices; otherwise, cut as thinly as you can. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. Toss sliced vegetables with juice of 1 lemon to prevent browning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. Cut grapefruit or pomelo in half through the equator. Using a small sharp knife, cut out wedges of fruit, leaving membranes attached to the rind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. Whisk olive oil into shallot-vinegar mixture. Taste for seasoning, adding pepper, more salt, lemon juice, or olive oil as needed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Toss greens, sliced vegetables, and Meyer lemon rind with half the dressing. Taste and add more dressing as needed. Arrange on a platter or individual plates. Top with grapefruit wedges and a sprinkle of sea salt. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RECIPE: \u003cstrong>Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI'm warning you: don't think you can make the toasted, sugar-and-cayenne-dusted pecans used to garnish this salad anytime but right before you serve it. Not because they won't keep--in fact, they'll be just fine made several days in advance--but they're so good, so nutty-crunchy hot and sweet, that your guests will sweep through the kitchen like locusts and hoover up every last nut before you've even folded a napkin or put out a wine glass. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53439\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/salad1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\" title=\"Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Persimmon, Pomegranate, Pecan Salad with Goat Cheese\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This recipe is adapted from a dish I had, and loved, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.baywolf.com/\">Bay Wolf\u003c/a> in Oakland (still going strong after 37 years), and was delighted to find in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082602/kqedorg-20\">Bay Wolf Restaurant Cookbook\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Absinthe-Jellies.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53422\" title=\"Absinthe Jellies\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Absinthe-Jellies-300x300.png\" alt=\"Absinthe Jellies\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>I entered this joyous season with a couple of heart-chilling stories I wanted to share with the world and some fun recipes to match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, the point driven home to me for the Holidays was that my capacity for coming up with interesting ideas is not always paired with the culinary talent for bringing them to fruition: the pot pie recipe I threw myself into wound up being thrown in the garbage, the Salted Carmelite nun candies I wanted to give out for Christmas looked warped and depressed in their nasty looking habits. I dare not go on. I will say that even my ability to fix myself a bowl of cereal with confidence was suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was enough to drive a person to drink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fortunately, I recalled the eternal wisdom of the great Maria von Trapp who once said to her flock, \"Wenn der Herr eine Tür schließt, irgendwo Er öffnet ein Fenster,\" which roughly translates (and I do mean roughly) to \"When the Lord closes the door on your edible nun idea, somewhere he opens a window.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As luck would have it, that window happened to shine a divine light upon my liquor shelf. Even more fortunate was the fact that I happened to be browsing the internet reading up on Tom Lehrer, the great mid-20th Century composer of such songs as \"Poisoning Pigeons in The Park\" and \"The Masochism Tango.\" It was if by some unseen force that I was willed to read the Wikipedia passage that mentioned Professor Lehrer's (spurious) claim to have invented the Jell-O shot as a way to circumvent alcohol restrictions while working at Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, just like that, faith in my cooking abilities was restored like a Christmas miracle. Or maybe it was just the booze talking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the case, it is thanks to Maria von Trapp, God, Tom Lehrer, and that bottle of absinthe collecting dust on my liquor shelf that I am able to bring you a recipe that is sure to please (and thoroughly sozzle) your loved ones, just in time for the Holidays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recipe: Absinthe Jellies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These jellies are not for children, which is a good thing because in all likelihood, they would not like them. They are what they are, which is incredibly alcoholic. 110 proof. Please serve, suck, and chew them responsibly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes enough to summon a legion of green fairies for you and all of your adult loved ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>3 cups of water\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>8 (1/4 ounce) packets of unflavored gelatin\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 cup of granulated sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 1/2 cups of absinthe\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2 drops of green food coloring (this is not entirely necessary, but it does make them more appealing)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Plenty more granulated sugar for coating.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Pour the water into a medium saucepan and sprinkle the gelatin evenly over the surface. Leave unmolested for about five minutes, until the gelatin softens. Add one cup of sugar and whisk to combine.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Over low heat, stir the mixture with a rubber spatula, scraping down the sides of the pan as necessary until the sugar and gelatin are fully dissolved. It will take about 8 minutes to attain this state. Whatever you do, DO NOT BOIL. DO NOT EVEN SIMMER or the gelatin will not set properly and you will have wasted a lot of very expensive liquor, which is a crime in every state except Nevada.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Remove your pan of gelatin from the heat, add the absinthe and food coloring, then stir until all is well combined. If there is extra absinthe left in your absinthe bottle, wait until you have finished preparing this recipe until you drink it. Otherwise, I cannot claim responsibility for what happens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Place an 8x8\" Pyrex baking dish onto a small baking sheet or tray that will fit such a thing, then pour your gelatin into the Pyrex dish. Place in your refrigerator to allow the near-liquid goo to cool and firm-- at least 2 hours or, better yet, over night. There is no need to cover your gelatin unless you also have left items such as creamed herring or durian fruit uncovered in the same refrigerator.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>To release your gelatin from its Pyrex confines, dip the container into hot water and (starting from the number one) count to the number seven. After you have wiped the bottom and sides of the Pyrex, place a small cutting board over the top of the container and quickly flip it upside down. The gelatin should now be released on its own recognizance. If it does not, repeat the t water trick and try again. Return the now-freed gelatin (still on the cutting board) to the refrigerator for a few minutes to the top and sides to re-firm themselves if necessary. Remove them only when you are ready to cut and serve.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Absinthe-Butt-Plug.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-53421\" title=\"Absinthe Butt Plug\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Absinthe-Butt-Plug-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Slice the gelatin into any size you wish. If you have made the error of pouring some of the gelatin into an ice cream soda glass, thinking that it might make for an amusing Christmas Tree-like shape, think again. You will end up with something that looks like an advanced-level sex toy (see: photo on right). Small one-to-two bite squares are ideal and much less disturbing to friends and family.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>When you have sliced the gelatin into cubes, roll them in sugar, shaking off the excess. Serve immediately* to people you would like to see very drunk. If you decide against rolling them in sugar, they will not weep, but remain miraculously stable. However, they won't be as sweet. Do with them what you will.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>*When I say \"immediately,\" I mean \"immediately.\" These jellies are so laden with alcohol that the will begin to weep if left unattended without refrigeration which, coincidentally, is what the angels will do on your behalf if you eat too many of them. Should this occur (the weeping of the jellies, not the angels), re-roll them again in sugar before serving seconds.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-62.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-62.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Crumb Cake\" title=\"Apple Crumb Cake\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52126\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple Crumb Cake\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I first tasted this \u003cstrong>apple cake\u003c/strong> at a lovely brunch my friend, Leslie, hosted about a year ago. It was a simple, satisfying cake, full of juicy chunks of apples, warm spices, and a bit of crunch on the surface and around the edges. As I helped myself to a second serving, I grilled Leslie for the details and she promised it was silly easy -- a one bowl affair that didn’t even require a mixer. Sold. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie’s apple cake is awesome as is. I made minor tweaks to it, cutting down a bit of the sugar and swapping in olive oil for the light vegetable oil. This cake feels wholesome. The kind of breakfast cake or snacking cake I could whip up on a whim and eat without feeling guilty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes though, times call for something...well, a little less wholesome. Sorry Les, I got nasty with this apple cake. I added two sticks of butter and layered it with thick swaths of decadent New York-style crumb topping. I know, I’m a depraved soul. Forgive me. Or, um...thank me. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-25.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-25.jpg\" alt=\"Bring on the crumb\" title=\"Bring on the crumb\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52123\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Bring on the crumb\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspiration for the crumb topping comes from one of my favorite baking blogs, \u003ca href=\"http://www.culinaryconcoctionsbypeabody.com/2010/07/13/baker-superiority-complex/\">Culinary Concoctions by Peabody\u003c/a>. Peabody and I met on a press trip over \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/events/harry-david-the-people-behind-the-pears/\">Harry & David pears\u003c/a> and I immediately respected her immodest use of butter. Peabody didn’t let me down, and indeed I found what I was looking for on her site. A thick, cakey, swoon-inducing crumb topping, the kind you find perched on top of old fashioned crumb cakes or crumb cake doughnuts, the kind that those Hostess Crumb Cakes never have enough of. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I had another brilliant idea. What’s better than crumb topping? Well, three layers of crumb topping, of course. Why be stingy with the good stuff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part is, this is still a pretty low-maintenance cake. It basically requires three main steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#1: Make the crumb topping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-7.jpg\" alt=\"New York Style Crumb Topping\" title=\"New York Style Crumb Topping\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52122\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>New York Style Crumb Topping\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#2: Make the apple cake batter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-64.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-64.jpg\" alt=\"Apple cake batter\" title=\"Apple cake batter\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52128\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple cake batter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#3: Layer it all together: crumb, apples, crumb, apples, crumb.\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-65.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-65.jpg\" alt=\"Layers of goodness\" title=\"Layers of goodness\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52129\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Layers of goodness\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really though, when all is said and done, you kind of lose track of where the crumb layers end and where the apple cake starts, and it all becomes one heavenly morsel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-53.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-53.jpg\" alt=\"apple crumb cake\" title=\"apple crumb cake\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52124\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heaven\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This \u003cstrong>Apple Crumb Cake\u003c/strong> is simply out of this world. It has a comforting heft to it. It will remind you of apple picking and old fashioned doughnut shops. The cake on its own is wonderful, but the crumb topping just pushes it over the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, think of it this way...you now have a naughty \u003cem>and\u003c/em> nice version to choose from!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-63.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-63.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\" title=\"Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52127\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Apple Crumb Cake\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is officially my new favorite coffee/breakfast/snack/anytime cake. It has a comforting heft to it. It will remind you of apple picking and old fashioned donut shops. The cake on its own is wonderful, but the crumb topping makes it swoon-worthy. You will eat every last crumb. Promise.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep Time:\u003c/strong> 30 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cook Time:\u003c/strong> 1 hour\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Total Time:\u003c/strong> 1 hour, 30 minutes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yield:\u003c/strong> 8-10 servings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For the Apple Cake:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 cups granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n1 1/4 cup olive oil\u003cbr>\n2 eggs\u003cbr>\n3 cups flour\u003cbr>\n1 tsp baking soda\u003cbr>\n1 tsp salt\u003cbr>\n2 tsp cinnamon\u003cbr>\n2 medium apples, peeled, cored, and diced (about 3 cups) – I used 1 Granny Smith and 1 Honeycrisp\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For the Crumb Topping and Layers:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2/3 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n2/3 cup brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon\u003cbr>\n1/2 teaspoon kosher salt\u003cbr>\n1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and still warm\u003cbr>\n3 1/2 cups cake flour *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Preheat oven to 350 F.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Make the crumb topping:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Whisk sugars, cinnamon, salt, and butter in a medium bowl to combine. Add cake flour and stir with a spatula or spoon until the mixture resembles thick crumbles; set aside to cool to room temperature, 10-15 minutes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Make the apple cake batter:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Put all ingredients in one large bowl. Mix with your hands, gently, but thoroughly (do not use a spoon or mixer).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Assemble:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Lightly grease your bundt pan (or 9x13 pan). Now layer your crumb topping and apple cake mixture. Start with a bottom layer of a third of the crumb mixture, then half of the batter, second third of the crumbs, remaining half of the batter, and finally, the last of the crumbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bake for 1 hour. Test that it’s done by inserting a knife or skewer. If it comes out clean it’s done. Loosen the edges with the edge of a knife and invert the cake onto your serving plate to cool.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cook’s Note: I think that this cake is plenty sweet as it is, but if you are looking to bring this over the edge on the presentation and indulgence front, feel free to drizzle on some powdered sugar icing after the cake has fully cooled. Recipe for the glaze below for your sweet tooth pleasure: \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Powdered Sugar Icing (aka White Fondant Glaze)\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Recipe from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 cups powdered sugar\u003cbr>\n6 tablespoons (or up to 1/2 cup) warm milk\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sift 4 cups of powdered sugar into a bowl. Slowly add 6 tablespoons to 1/2 cup of warm milk, briskly whisking until all the sugar is dissolved. Only add as much milk as is needed to make a thick, smooth paste. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspiration for the crumb topping comes from one of my favorite baking blogs, \u003ca href=\"http://www.culinaryconcoctionsbypeabody.com/2010/07/13/baker-superiority-complex/\">Culinary Concoctions by Peabody\u003c/a>. Peabody and I met on a press trip over \u003ca href=\"http://lickmyspoon.com/events/harry-david-the-people-behind-the-pears/\">Harry & David pears\u003c/a> and I immediately respected her immodest use of butter. Peabody didn’t let me down, and indeed I found what I was looking for on her site. A thick, cakey, swoon-inducing crumb topping, the kind you find perched on top of old fashioned crumb cakes or crumb cake doughnuts, the kind that those Hostess Crumb Cakes never have enough of. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I had another brilliant idea. What’s better than crumb topping? Well, three layers of crumb topping, of course. Why be stingy with the good stuff?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The best part is, this is still a pretty low-maintenance cake. It basically requires three main steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#1: Make the crumb topping\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-7.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-7.jpg\" alt=\"New York Style Crumb Topping\" title=\"New York Style Crumb Topping\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52122\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>New York Style Crumb Topping\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#2: Make the apple cake batter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-64.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-64.jpg\" alt=\"Apple cake batter\" title=\"Apple cake batter\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52128\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple cake batter\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>#3: Layer it all together: crumb, apples, crumb, apples, crumb.\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-65.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-65.jpg\" alt=\"Layers of goodness\" title=\"Layers of goodness\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52129\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Layers of goodness\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really though, when all is said and done, you kind of lose track of where the crumb layers end and where the apple cake starts, and it all becomes one heavenly morsel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-53.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-53.jpg\" alt=\"apple crumb cake\" title=\"apple crumb cake\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52124\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Heaven\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This \u003cstrong>Apple Crumb Cake\u003c/strong> is simply out of this world. It has a comforting heft to it. It will remind you of apple picking and old fashioned doughnut shops. The cake on its own is wonderful, but the crumb topping just pushes it over the edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, think of it this way...you now have a naughty \u003cem>and\u003c/em> nice version to choose from!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-63.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-63.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\" title=\"Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52127\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple Crumb Cake with Glaze\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Apple Crumb Cake\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>This is officially my new favorite coffee/breakfast/snack/anytime cake. It has a comforting heft to it. It will remind you of apple picking and old fashioned donut shops. The cake on its own is wonderful, but the crumb topping makes it swoon-worthy. You will eat every last crumb. Promise.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prep Time:\u003c/strong> 30 minutes\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Cook Time:\u003c/strong> 1 hour\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Total Time:\u003c/strong> 1 hour, 30 minutes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yield:\u003c/strong> 8-10 servings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For the Apple Cake:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 cups granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n1 1/4 cup olive oil\u003cbr>\n2 eggs\u003cbr>\n3 cups flour\u003cbr>\n1 tsp baking soda\u003cbr>\n1 tsp salt\u003cbr>\n2 tsp cinnamon\u003cbr>\n2 medium apples, peeled, cored, and diced (about 3 cups) – I used 1 Granny Smith and 1 Honeycrisp\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>For the Crumb Topping and Layers:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2/3 cup granulated sugar\u003cbr>\n2/3 cup brown sugar\u003cbr>\n1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon\u003cbr>\n1/2 teaspoon kosher salt\u003cbr>\n1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and still warm\u003cbr>\n3 1/2 cups cake flour *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>Preheat oven to 350 F.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Make the crumb topping:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Whisk sugars, cinnamon, salt, and butter in a medium bowl to combine. Add cake flour and stir with a spatula or spoon until the mixture resembles thick crumbles; set aside to cool to room temperature, 10-15 minutes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Make the apple cake batter:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Put all ingredients in one large bowl. Mix with your hands, gently, but thoroughly (do not use a spoon or mixer).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Assemble:\u003c/em>\u003c/strong> Lightly grease your bundt pan (or 9x13 pan). Now layer your crumb topping and apple cake mixture. Start with a bottom layer of a third of the crumb mixture, then half of the batter, second third of the crumbs, remaining half of the batter, and finally, the last of the crumbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bake for 1 hour. Test that it’s done by inserting a knife or skewer. If it comes out clean it’s done. Loosen the edges with the edge of a knife and invert the cake onto your serving plate to cool.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Cook’s Note: I think that this cake is plenty sweet as it is, but if you are looking to bring this over the edge on the presentation and indulgence front, feel free to drizzle on some powdered sugar icing after the cake has fully cooled. Recipe for the glaze below for your sweet tooth pleasure: \u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Powdered Sugar Icing (aka White Fondant Glaze)\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Recipe from The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 cups powdered sugar\u003cbr>\n6 tablespoons (or up to 1/2 cup) warm milk\u003cbr>\n1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sift 4 cups of powdered sugar into a bowl. Slowly add 6 tablespoons to 1/2 cup of warm milk, briskly whisking until all the sugar is dissolved. Only add as much milk as is needed to make a thick, smooth paste. Whisk in the vanilla. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>* If you don’t have cake flour, you can substitute using this handy formula:\u003cbr>\n1 cup AP flour – 2 tablespoons AP flour + 2 tablespoons corn starch = 1 cup cake flour.\u003cbr>\nBe sure to sift everything well, 3-4 times, before using.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-59.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/11/2012-11-10-apple-crumb-cake-59.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Crumb Cake\" title=\"Apple Crumb Cake\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52125\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Apple Crumb Cake: Naughty.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>I love a seasonal sangria. The way I see it, it's just another wine pairing. Right? Since it is Christmas time, I wanted this one to not only resemble the holiday flavors but also the colors. If you ask me, it is simply beautiful. But please tell me what you think of it in the comment section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/IMG_7964.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53242\" title=\"Rosemary Cranberry White Sangria\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/IMG_7964.jpg\" alt=\"Rosemary Cranberry White Sangria\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recipe: Cranberry & Rosemary White Sangria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2 apples, granny smith and a braeburn\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 heaping cup of fresh cranberries\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 large sprig of fresh rosemary, extra for garnish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 bottle of Pinot Grigio\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/2 cup of white grape juice\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1/4 cup of sugar, more for garnish\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 can of club soda\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Instructions:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. 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I try to use good wine for my sangria. I am sure many winemakers would scoff at the suggestion but good wine makes good sangria. Crappy wine makes good sangria too, you just have to add a lot more to it. I prefer to let the wine shine through too. Oh, a little secret...the advantage to using good wine is that you can pour yourself a glass of it while assembling this recipe and it won't suck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4. In a large pitcher, combine all of the ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/IMG_7908.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53240\" title=\"Cranberry Fruit Sangria\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/IMG_7908.jpg\" alt=\"Cranberry Fruit Sangria\" width=\"500\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5. Mix it well, so that the sugar fully dissolves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>6. Place the pitcher in the refrigerator to chill. 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To do this, simple place about 1/2 cup of granulated sugar in a shallow bowl. Lightly wet the rosemary and then give it a good shake to remove any excess water. Then roll the sprigs in the sugar until they are coated as you please. Gorgeous, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>8. Once the pitcher has chilled for about an hour, it should be ready to serve. How amazing does this look? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/tamaleplate-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53121\" title=\"Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/tamaleplate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty hungry people with sticky hands and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale\">tamales\u003c/a> on their minds rotated through four tables at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina’s\u003c/a> Tamalada event last Wednesday evening, learning how to make beef, veggie, chicken, cheese and sweet mango tamales. No wonder this annual December event always sells out in November. Tamales can be intimidating for the novice, and even for a pro are time-consuming and labor intensive. That's the reason behind tamaladas (tamale making parties): share the toil and end up with enough to eat plus a pile to take home for later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides demystifying tamale making (this is the first time I dared to try my hand at filling and rolling the corn meal bundles) the event at La Cocina introduced students to three chefs from different regions of Latin America, each demonstrating their own traditional recipes and techniques that produced a variety of stuffed, steamy bundles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamales, a beloved comfort food served for festivals, birthdays and everyday meals, are a staple at Christmastime. They date back thousands of years, even before the Mayans and Aztecs. The portable, filled buns have fed generations of families (and armies) from Mexico to Argentina. Corn meal wrapped in corn husks, plantain or banana leaves can be filled with almost anything, most commonly with shredded pork, beef or chicken, while sweet tamales feature fruit or raisins and coconut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Alicias-beef-and-mango-tamales-1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53123\" title=\"Alicia's beef and mango tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Alicias-beef-and-mango-tamales-1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia's beef and mango tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia's beef and mango tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alicia Villanueva of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aliciatamaleslosmayas.com/\">Tamales Los Mayas\u003c/a> grew up in Mazatlan and her masa had the consistency of a light play-doh. She demonstrated how to roll it into a ball between two palms and then flatten it by pressing into a roundish shape onto the corn husk and plopping some of her fall-apart-tender cooked beef roast, studded with vegetables on top. Squeeze together the edges of the filled masa in its corn husk wrapper and simply fold the ends or tie up the tamale with a thin strip of corn husk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Dilsas-cheese-tamales-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53101\" title=\"Dilsa's cheese tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Dilsas-cheese-tamales-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Dilsa's cheese tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dilsa's cheese tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dilsa Lugo of \u003ca href=\"http://www.buylocalcampaign.com/losCilantros/index.html\">Los Cilantros\u003c/a> is from Cuernavaca, Mexico. She told us her secret for achieving fluffy tamales is using fresh lard and explained that each corn husk has a smooth and a scratchy side; you should spread the masa on the smooth side for easier removal after steaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consistency of Dilsa’s masa was totally different than Alicia’s. We used a spoon to smear the sticky masa very thinly on the corn husk, then added two kinds of cheese and topped with tomato, onion and jalapeno. Dilsa, who is sous chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.copitarestaurant.com/\">Copita\u003c/a> in Sausalito also does catering. Here is \u003ca href=\"http://lettuceeatkale.com/2010/la-cocina-helps-launch-los-cilantros-catering-company/\">an interview\u003c/a> with her by Sarah Henry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Marias-vegetable-tamales-10001.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53110\" title=\"Maria's vegetable tamales \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Marias-vegetable-tamales-10001.jpg\" alt=\"Maria's vegetable tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria's vegetable tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria del Carmen Flores, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.estrellitassnacks.com/\">Estrellita’s Snacks\u003c/a> is from El Salvador. Her variation on the tamale theme employed cooked--not raw--masa with the vegetables already mixed in. We scooped a big dollop of the masa veggie mixture onto cut rectangles of banana leaves, backed with paper, instead of corn husks, and folded and rolled them up into tight little bundles. She also demonstrated another recipe with chicken and a dozen vegetables, including green beans, zucchini, peas, mushrooms, spinach and green olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the fourth table, demonstrating Alicia’s recipe for sweet mango-filled tamales was Alejandra, another program participant at La Cocina. Alicia adapted her mother’s traditional pineapple and strawberry tamale recipe, which uses a sweet masa made with butter and sugar. Her fluffy mango marvel won Alicia 1st prize at the Alameda County Fair. She shares her recipe with Bay Area Bites readers at the end of this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although enjoyed throughout the year, tamales are an integral part of Mexican Christmas celebrations, most notably the nine day ritual called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/savor-holidays-tamales-las-posadas-article-1.354163\">Las Posadas\u003c/a> (meaning “lodgings”), which runs December 16-25, in which a candlelit, costumed procession with musicians, that is said to represent Mary and Joseph’s search for an inn, knocks on the doors of several houses before being welcomed into one home. Songs, piñatas, moles, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozole.\">pozole\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/article/celebrate-las-posadas-what-are-they-where-to-buy-tamales-how-to-make-ponche\">hot punch\u003c/a> and tamales typically enliven the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before the Tamalada, BAB spoke with Alicia Villanueava and Maria del Carmen Flores at La Cocina. Their comments have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alicia, one of 4 children who grew up in Sinaloa, Mexico, is the only one in her family to move to the US. She came here with her 8-year old son (who is now 20 years old and studying alternative energy at SFSU). Her husband joined them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I see your business is centered on tamales. What is your connection to tamales?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> Tamales bring back beautiful memories from my mom and grandma. Every year, the whole family would get together and cook them. It’s really hard work and takes many hours and dedication because there are so many details. First, you have to prepare the masa and then the fillings. My Grandma would start with the corncobs and a mill to make the masa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started cooking and selling tamales just by myself in 2000 but it was more stressful without any permits or anything and I just depended on friends to tell me who was planning a party or else I walked the streets knocking on doors, offering tastes of my tamales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I realized I needed more help so I went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.womensinitiative.org/index.htm\">The Women’s Initiative\u003c/a>. And my teacher referred me to La Cocina in 2010 and this was the most heavenly place. I am so happy. La Cocina made my dream come true. Now I have five women working for me. They make about 400 tamales a day in La Cocina’s kitchen. The Hobart mixer and the professional steamer are my angels. I can steam 400 tamales in 30 minutes compared to 5 hours it would take on a small stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about the Tamalada tradition in your family. Is it just women who make the tamales?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> Not just women, men make them too. When you’re making tamales everyone wants to participate. Our Tamaladas would take a whole day. There were 10 of us family and friends, and my grandmother would dole out the tasks. When I was little, I enjoyed all the smells of cooking. It’s not just about cooking, but talking and solving problems together as a family. And everyone goes home with lots of tamales that last for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can we find your tamales now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> I used to sell at Justin Herman Plaza but I found a new place at \u003ca href=\"http://somastreatfoodpark.com/\">SOMA Streat Food\u003c/a> -- every day. And I do catering and festivals. My big goal is to have a restaurant. I’m working on my second business plan with La Cocina. Maybe in the Financial District, but I’m open; God will find the right place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/DSCN3733.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-52970\" title=\"Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/DSCN3733.jpg\" alt=\"Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the interview with Maria del Carmen Flores, La Cocina’s Azalea Perez Olivares kindly acted as interpreter\u003cbr>\nMaria is from El Salvador and started making tamales with her father when she was six years old. She described some differences:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria:\u003c/strong> In Mexico, they use raw masa, while we use cooked. And our fillings are different, like one with chicken, potato, green olives and chickpeas. The vegetarian I made up because there are so many vegetarians here. Since tamale making is so labor intensive, it’s great for parties. We talk, teach and learn in a group from each other. I started making them here in my kitchen in 2003 and sold them on street corners in San Francisco. It was hard because I had to hide from the police. Then I found La Cocina and now I sell at \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/alemany-farmers-market-san-francisco\">Alemany Farmers Market\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/heart-of-the-city-farmers-market-san-francisco\">Civic Center Farmers Market\u003c/a> and do catering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know your business name Estrellita means little stars and I see you have gold inlay stars on your teeth too. Can I ask why all the stars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria:\u003c/strong> Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a superstar on TV. Thank God I could accomplish that through my food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Then with a little prompting from Azalea, Maria tells me how her other dream came true too. She has a part in the new Woody Allen film that was recently shot in San Francisco. She was “discovered” on the corner of south Van Ness and 14th wearing a typical dress from El Salvador, when apparently she was noticed by film people scouting for extras. They asked her to be in Allen’s movie and she filmed a scene in which Cate Blanchett asks her for a key to an apartment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss another Tamalada at La Cocina. They have already scheduled next year’s class. Put it on your calendar: December 11, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recipe: ALICIA'S MANGO TAMALES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 30-40 tamales, depending on the size you make\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>INGREDIENTS:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>40 - 60 dried corn husks* (this includes extra, in case some tear)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>10 pounds maseca* (corn flour)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>10 sticks unsalted butter, let soften at room temperature 2-3 hours\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 cups white sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 pounds frozen mango (Whole Foods brand is best) let thaw at room temperature about 2hrs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4 14-oz.cans condensed milk\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Can find in Mexican markets or Mexican food aisle of most large markets\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PREPARATION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For Masa:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>In a large pan, cover corn husks with water and boil for 30 min.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Combine 3 pounds of thawed mango and 2 cans of condensed milk in blender. Blend until smooth.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>In a large bowl, put the 10 pounds of maseca, 8 sticks softened butter, 4 cups sugar and the blended mango/milk cream from Step 2.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>For traditional “grandmother method,” mix well with your hands 40-60 minutes until it becomes a smooth paste. OR you can mix it using an electric mixer with a big enough bowl for 15-20 minutes.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For Filling:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>On the stove in a medium pot, put in remaining 2 sticks of softened butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 pounds of thawed mango and 2 cans condensed milk. Heat on high for 5 minutes, uncovered, then cook slowly at medium-low for another 30 minutes, stirring constantly so filling does not stick to pan.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To Assemble the Tamales:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>To assemble tamales, take about a 1/4 cup of masa and roll it in a smooth ball between your palms. Then press it onto the softened corn husk leaving about 1/2 inch border along the sides and 2-inch border on top and bottom for folding.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli> Top center of masa with about 2 Tablespoons of mango filling.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli> Gently fold one long side of the corn husk to the other, making make a tight bundle, then fold up the pointed end of the corn husk,leaving other end open. If you wish, use a thin strip of corn husk to tie it up and look pretty. Lay each tamale folded-side down while you finish the rest.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli> Once the tamales are folded, fill a large steamer with water just below the fill line and place the steam tray on the rack.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli> Carefully place each tamale standing up on the steamer, open ends up and cook covered for 90 min. (If you don’t have a steamer, you can use a large pot with a steamer basket, just make sure water is below tamales, so that they don’t get wet and check every 15 minutes so that water does not boil away). Turn the gas to high until water boils then turn it down to medium-low. (After 90 minutes, masa should be firm and pull away easily from corn husk, if it is sticky, carefully re-wrap and steam some more.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli> Remove each tamale with tongs and let rest for a few minutes before serving as a delicious dessert for lunch or dinner or even breakfast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53121\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/tamaleplate-new.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53121\" title=\"Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/tamaleplate-new.jpg\" alt=\"Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Forty hungry people with sticky hands and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale\">tamales\u003c/a> on their minds rotated through four tables at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina’s\u003c/a> Tamalada event last Wednesday evening, learning how to make beef, veggie, chicken, cheese and sweet mango tamales. No wonder this annual December event always sells out in November. Tamales can be intimidating for the novice, and even for a pro are time-consuming and labor intensive. That's the reason behind tamaladas (tamale making parties): share the toil and end up with enough to eat plus a pile to take home for later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides demystifying tamale making (this is the first time I dared to try my hand at filling and rolling the corn meal bundles) the event at La Cocina introduced students to three chefs from different regions of Latin America, each demonstrating their own traditional recipes and techniques that produced a variety of stuffed, steamy bundles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamales, a beloved comfort food served for festivals, birthdays and everyday meals, are a staple at Christmastime. They date back thousands of years, even before the Mayans and Aztecs. The portable, filled buns have fed generations of families (and armies) from Mexico to Argentina. Corn meal wrapped in corn husks, plantain or banana leaves can be filled with almost anything, most commonly with shredded pork, beef or chicken, while sweet tamales feature fruit or raisins and coconut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Alicias-beef-and-mango-tamales-1000a.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53123\" title=\"Alicia's beef and mango tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Alicias-beef-and-mango-tamales-1000a.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia's beef and mango tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia's beef and mango tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alicia Villanueva of \u003ca href=\"http://www.aliciatamaleslosmayas.com/\">Tamales Los Mayas\u003c/a> grew up in Mazatlan and her masa had the consistency of a light play-doh. She demonstrated how to roll it into a ball between two palms and then flatten it by pressing into a roundish shape onto the corn husk and plopping some of her fall-apart-tender cooked beef roast, studded with vegetables on top. Squeeze together the edges of the filled masa in its corn husk wrapper and simply fold the ends or tie up the tamale with a thin strip of corn husk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Dilsas-cheese-tamales-1000.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53101\" title=\"Dilsa's cheese tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Dilsas-cheese-tamales-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Dilsa's cheese tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dilsa's cheese tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dilsa Lugo of \u003ca href=\"http://www.buylocalcampaign.com/losCilantros/index.html\">Los Cilantros\u003c/a> is from Cuernavaca, Mexico. She told us her secret for achieving fluffy tamales is using fresh lard and explained that each corn husk has a smooth and a scratchy side; you should spread the masa on the smooth side for easier removal after steaming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consistency of Dilsa’s masa was totally different than Alicia’s. We used a spoon to smear the sticky masa very thinly on the corn husk, then added two kinds of cheese and topped with tomato, onion and jalapeno. Dilsa, who is sous chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.copitarestaurant.com/\">Copita\u003c/a> in Sausalito also does catering. Here is \u003ca href=\"http://lettuceeatkale.com/2010/la-cocina-helps-launch-los-cilantros-catering-company/\">an interview\u003c/a> with her by Sarah Henry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Marias-vegetable-tamales-10001.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53110\" title=\"Maria's vegetable tamales \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/Marias-vegetable-tamales-10001.jpg\" alt=\"Maria's vegetable tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria's vegetable tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria del Carmen Flores, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.estrellitassnacks.com/\">Estrellita’s Snacks\u003c/a> is from El Salvador. Her variation on the tamale theme employed cooked--not raw--masa with the vegetables already mixed in. We scooped a big dollop of the masa veggie mixture onto cut rectangles of banana leaves, backed with paper, instead of corn husks, and folded and rolled them up into tight little bundles. She also demonstrated another recipe with chicken and a dozen vegetables, including green beans, zucchini, peas, mushrooms, spinach and green olives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the fourth table, demonstrating Alicia’s recipe for sweet mango-filled tamales was Alejandra, another program participant at La Cocina. Alicia adapted her mother’s traditional pineapple and strawberry tamale recipe, which uses a sweet masa made with butter and sugar. Her fluffy mango marvel won Alicia 1st prize at the Alameda County Fair. She shares her recipe with Bay Area Bites readers at the end of this post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although enjoyed throughout the year, tamales are an integral part of Mexican Christmas celebrations, most notably the nine day ritual called \u003ca href=\"http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/savor-holidays-tamales-las-posadas-article-1.354163\">Las Posadas\u003c/a> (meaning “lodgings”), which runs December 16-25, in which a candlelit, costumed procession with musicians, that is said to represent Mary and Joseph’s search for an inn, knocks on the doors of several houses before being welcomed into one home. Songs, piñatas, moles, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pozole.\">pozole\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.examiner.com/article/celebrate-las-posadas-what-are-they-where-to-buy-tamales-how-to-make-ponche\">hot punch\u003c/a> and tamales typically enliven the festivities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before the Tamalada, BAB spoke with Alicia Villanueava and Maria del Carmen Flores at La Cocina. Their comments have been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alicia, one of 4 children who grew up in Sinaloa, Mexico, is the only one in her family to move to the US. She came here with her 8-year old son (who is now 20 years old and studying alternative energy at SFSU). Her husband joined them later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I see your business is centered on tamales. What is your connection to tamales?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> Tamales bring back beautiful memories from my mom and grandma. Every year, the whole family would get together and cook them. It’s really hard work and takes many hours and dedication because there are so many details. First, you have to prepare the masa and then the fillings. My Grandma would start with the corncobs and a mill to make the masa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I started cooking and selling tamales just by myself in 2000 but it was more stressful without any permits or anything and I just depended on friends to tell me who was planning a party or else I walked the streets knocking on doors, offering tastes of my tamales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then I realized I needed more help so I went to \u003ca href=\"http://www.womensinitiative.org/index.htm\">The Women’s Initiative\u003c/a>. And my teacher referred me to La Cocina in 2010 and this was the most heavenly place. I am so happy. La Cocina made my dream come true. Now I have five women working for me. They make about 400 tamales a day in La Cocina’s kitchen. The Hobart mixer and the professional steamer are my angels. I can steam 400 tamales in 30 minutes compared to 5 hours it would take on a small stove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell me about the Tamalada tradition in your family. Is it just women who make the tamales?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> Not just women, men make them too. When you’re making tamales everyone wants to participate. Our Tamaladas would take a whole day. There were 10 of us family and friends, and my grandmother would dole out the tasks. When I was little, I enjoyed all the smells of cooking. It’s not just about cooking, but talking and solving problems together as a family. And everyone goes home with lots of tamales that last for days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where can we find your tamales now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alicia:\u003c/strong> I used to sell at Justin Herman Plaza but I found a new place at \u003ca href=\"http://somastreatfoodpark.com/\">SOMA Streat Food\u003c/a> -- every day. And I do catering and festivals. My big goal is to have a restaurant. I’m working on my second business plan with La Cocina. Maybe in the Financial District, but I’m open; God will find the right place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_52970\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/DSCN3733.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-52970\" title=\"Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/DSCN3733.jpg\" alt=\"Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ingredients for Maria's chicken tamales\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the interview with Maria del Carmen Flores, La Cocina’s Azalea Perez Olivares kindly acted as interpreter\u003cbr>\nMaria is from El Salvador and started making tamales with her father when she was six years old. She described some differences:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria:\u003c/strong> In Mexico, they use raw masa, while we use cooked. And our fillings are different, like one with chicken, potato, green olives and chickpeas. The vegetarian I made up because there are so many vegetarians here. Since tamale making is so labor intensive, it’s great for parties. We talk, teach and learn in a group from each other. I started making them here in my kitchen in 2003 and sold them on street corners in San Francisco. It was hard because I had to hide from the police. Then I found La Cocina and now I sell at \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/alemany-farmers-market-san-francisco\">Alemany Farmers Market\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.yelp.com/biz/heart-of-the-city-farmers-market-san-francisco\">Civic Center Farmers Market\u003c/a> and do catering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I know your business name Estrellita means little stars and I see you have gold inlay stars on your teeth too. Can I ask why all the stars?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria:\u003c/strong> Since I was a little girl, I wanted to be a superstar on TV. Thank God I could accomplish that through my food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Then with a little prompting from Azalea, Maria tells me how her other dream came true too. She has a part in the new Woody Allen film that was recently shot in San Francisco. She was “discovered” on the corner of south Van Ness and 14th wearing a typical dress from El Salvador, when apparently she was noticed by film people scouting for extras. They asked her to be in Allen’s movie and she filmed a scene in which Cate Blanchett asks her for a key to an apartment.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss another Tamalada at La Cocina. They have already scheduled next year’s class. Put it on your calendar: December 11, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Recipe: ALICIA'S MANGO TAMALES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makes 30-40 tamales, depending on the size you make\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>INGREDIENTS:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>40 - 60 dried corn husks* (this includes extra, in case some tear)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>10 pounds maseca* (corn flour)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>10 sticks unsalted butter, let soften at room temperature 2-3 hours\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 cups white sugar\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>6 pounds frozen mango (Whole Foods brand is best) let thaw at room temperature about 2hrs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>4 14-oz.cans condensed milk\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>*Can find in Mexican markets or Mexican food aisle of most large markets\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>PREPARATION:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>For Masa:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>In a large pan, cover corn husks with water and boil for 30 min.\u003c/li>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>Combine 3 pounds of thawed mango and 2 cans of condensed milk in blender. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/martini.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53155\" title=\"Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/martini.jpg\" alt=\"Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/17/167488498/elixirs-made-to-fight-malaria-still-shine-on-the-modern-bar\">The Salt at NPR\u003c/a> (12/20/12)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, our colleagues over at the Shots blog have been talking a lot about malaria. And, here at The Salt, that got us thinking about one thing: gin and tonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you probably know, tonic is simply carbonated water mixed with quinine, a bitter compound that just happens to cure a malaria infection, albeit not so well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, gin and tonics aren't the only drinks with ties to the feverish disease. If you're sipping an absinthe cocktail or an Italian aperitif this holiday season, chances are you're also imbibing a bit of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/13/167188333/herbs-and-empires-a-brief-animated-history-of-malaria-drugs\">malaria's history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many modern day liqueurs like Campari and Pimm's contain quinine. And absinthe –- that anise-flavored spirit with a nasty reputation –- also has a history with malaria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absinthe gets its bitter flavor and alleged psychedelic properties from wormwood, a shrub that's been around since the dinosaurs. Coincidentally, the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/18/167440130/a-view-from-the-ground-thailand-battles-drug-resistant-malaria\">powerful malaria drug\u003c/a> we have today also comes from a type of wormwood found in China. More on that later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53157\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/dubonnet.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53157\" title=\"Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/dubonnet.jpg\" alt=\"Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"433\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So how in the heck did all these malaria drugs get mixed in with our mixology?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's start with the classic: quinine. The bitter compound comes from the bark of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rcs/cinchona.html\">cinchona tree\u003c/a> (pronounced sin-KO-neh) in the Andes Mountains of South America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unknown who discovered the fever-curing properties of the cinchona bark, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/collections/topic/cinchona/a-short-history-of-cinchona/index.html\">according\u003c/a> to the Kew Royalty Botanical Gardens, Jesuit missionaries figured it out by about 1650, and soon it became the front-line defense for malaria in Europe (which at the time was treated with all kinds of barbaric approaches, like limb amputations and bloodletting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1800s, the Dutch were growing the cinchona tree on the island of Java in Indonesia to meet the high-demand for quinine back in Europe, where monks and pharmacists were using the bark to make medicinal tonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Herb liqueurs all started this way,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.amystewart.com/\">Amy Stewart\u003c/a>, the author of a forthcoming book, \u003cem>The Drunken Botanist\u003c/em>, and a specialist in horticulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Apothecaries would soak the herbs and wood in alcohol to extract out the active ingredients and preserve them,\" she tells The Salt. \"Then you add a little bit of sugar to make it taste better, and you have a liqueur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart says pharmacist and chemists were making concoctions like this for just about every ailment: stomach aches, constipation, kidney stones and even alcohol-induced liver failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For malaria, they'd simply add cinchona to the elixirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these quinine-spiked liqueurs are still around today, and the malaria drug gives them a characteristic bitter flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/dining/new-from-lillet-rose.html?_r=0\">Lillet\u003c/a>, a French aperitif that goes into James Bond's famous martini: \"Three parts of Gordon's gin to one part vodka and a half measure of Kina Lillet,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7n7yyXWsU\">says\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Casino Royale\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the Italian \u003ca href=\"http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/case-study-cocchi-americano-waking-the-dead/\">Cocchi Americano\u003c/a>, which is an essential component of the Corpse Reviver, one of the first cocktails designed to cure a hangover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, then there's Dubonnet — a sweet, quinine-flavored aperitif \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8159201.stm\">beloved\u003c/a> by both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II. And, in the movie \u003cem>The Way We Were\u003c/em>, Barbara Streisand drank Dubonnet over ice as Katie Morosky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53156\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/devil.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53156\" title=\"Often mistaken as an ad for absinthe, this 1906 poster actually promotes Maruin Quina, a French aperitif made with white wine infused with cherries, citrus and quinine. Painting by Leonetto Cappiello/Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/devil.jpg\" alt=\"Often mistaken as an ad for absinthe, this 1906 poster actually promotes Maruin Quina, a French aperitif made with white wine infused with cherries, citrus and quinine. Painting by Leonetto Cappiello/Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"403\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Often mistaken as an ad for absinthe, this 1906 poster actually promotes Maruin Quina, a French aperitif made with white wine infused with cherries, citrus and quinine. Painting by Leonetto Cappiello/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dubonnet also shares historical roots with the gin and tonic. They were both concocted as a way to get soldiers to take their malaria medication. Dubonnet helped French troops in North Africa get their quinine while British officers in India cut its bitter taste with gin, carbonated water and twist of lime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about absinthe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Europeans and South Americans were messing around with cinchona and quinine, the Chinese had an even more powerful malaria drug up their sleeve --or should we say, in their tea cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"According%20to%20a%20commentary%20in%20the%20British%20Journal%20of%20Clinical\">commentary\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, \u003c/em>traditional Chinese doctors have been treating malaria with a tea made from sweet wormwood, or qinghao, for thousands of years. They'd soak the shrub in water and then wring it out to extract the active ingredients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/health/for-intrigue-malaria-drug-artemisinin-gets-the-prize.html?pagewanted=all\">explained\u003c/a> earlier this year how this herbal remedy become a modern-day malaria drug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1960s, Chairman Mao wanted a magic bullet to stop malaria among his troops in North Vietnam. So he enlisted top scientists to find a new malaria drug from herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took 14 years and over 50 scientists, McNeil says, but finally the scientists isolated a potent anti-malarial compound from sweet wormwood. It's called artemisinin, and we still use it today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a note of caution — artemisinin isn't found in the European wormwood used in absinthe, so a drink of that liqueur wouldn't help with a malaria infection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/martini.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53155\" title=\"Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/martini.jpg\" alt=\"Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\" width=\"560\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shaken with splash of malaria drug, please. The original James Bond martini is made with gin, vodka and Kina Lillet, a French aperitif wine flavored with a smidge of the anti-malaria drug quinine. Photo: Karen Castillo Farfan/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/17/167488498/elixirs-made-to-fight-malaria-still-shine-on-the-modern-bar\">The Salt at NPR\u003c/a> (12/20/12)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, our colleagues over at the Shots blog have been talking a lot about malaria. And, here at The Salt, that got us thinking about one thing: gin and tonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you probably know, tonic is simply carbonated water mixed with quinine, a bitter compound that just happens to cure a malaria infection, albeit not so well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turns out, gin and tonics aren't the only drinks with ties to the feverish disease. If you're sipping an absinthe cocktail or an Italian aperitif this holiday season, chances are you're also imbibing a bit of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/13/167188333/herbs-and-empires-a-brief-animated-history-of-malaria-drugs\">malaria's history\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many modern day liqueurs like Campari and Pimm's contain quinine. And absinthe –- that anise-flavored spirit with a nasty reputation –- also has a history with malaria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absinthe gets its bitter flavor and alleged psychedelic properties from wormwood, a shrub that's been around since the dinosaurs. Coincidentally, the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/18/167440130/a-view-from-the-ground-thailand-battles-drug-resistant-malaria\">powerful malaria drug\u003c/a> we have today also comes from a type of wormwood found in China. More on that later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53157\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/dubonnet.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53157\" title=\"Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/dubonnet.jpg\" alt=\"Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"300\" height=\"433\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dubonnet is a French liqueur made wine, herbs and quinine. Joseph Dubonnet concocted the beverage as way to make troops take their malaria medication. Poster: Jules Chéret /Wikimedia Commons\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So how in the heck did all these malaria drugs get mixed in with our mixology?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's start with the classic: quinine. The bitter compound comes from the bark of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/rcs/cinchona.html\">cinchona tree\u003c/a> (pronounced sin-KO-neh) in the Andes Mountains of South America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unknown who discovered the fever-curing properties of the cinchona bark, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.kew.org/collections/ecbot/collections/topic/cinchona/a-short-history-of-cinchona/index.html\">according\u003c/a> to the Kew Royalty Botanical Gardens, Jesuit missionaries figured it out by about 1650, and soon it became the front-line defense for malaria in Europe (which at the time was treated with all kinds of barbaric approaches, like limb amputations and bloodletting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the late 1800s, the Dutch were growing the cinchona tree on the island of Java in Indonesia to meet the high-demand for quinine back in Europe, where monks and pharmacists were using the bark to make medicinal tonics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Herb liqueurs all started this way,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.amystewart.com/\">Amy Stewart\u003c/a>, the author of a forthcoming book, \u003cem>The Drunken Botanist\u003c/em>, and a specialist in horticulture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Apothecaries would soak the herbs and wood in alcohol to extract out the active ingredients and preserve them,\" she tells The Salt. \"Then you add a little bit of sugar to make it taste better, and you have a liqueur.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart says pharmacist and chemists were making concoctions like this for just about every ailment: stomach aches, constipation, kidney stones and even alcohol-induced liver failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For malaria, they'd simply add cinchona to the elixirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these quinine-spiked liqueurs are still around today, and the malaria drug gives them a characteristic bitter flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/dining/new-from-lillet-rose.html?_r=0\">Lillet\u003c/a>, a French aperitif that goes into James Bond's famous martini: \"Three parts of Gordon's gin to one part vodka and a half measure of Kina Lillet,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc7n7yyXWsU\">says\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Casino Royale\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the Italian \u003ca href=\"http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/case-study-cocchi-americano-waking-the-dead/\">Cocchi Americano\u003c/a>, which is an essential component of the Corpse Reviver, one of the first cocktails designed to cure a hangover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, then there's Dubonnet — a sweet, quinine-flavored aperitif \u003ca href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8159201.stm\">beloved\u003c/a> by both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II. And, in the movie \u003cem>The Way We Were\u003c/em>, Barbara Streisand drank Dubonnet over ice as Katie Morosky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53156\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/devil.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-53156\" title=\"Often mistaken as an ad for absinthe, this 1906 poster actually promotes Maruin Quina, a French aperitif made with white wine infused with cherries, citrus and quinine. Painting by Leonetto Cappiello/Wikimedia Commons\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/devil.jpg\" alt=\"Often mistaken as an ad for absinthe, this 1906 poster actually promotes Maruin Quina, a French aperitif made with white wine infused with cherries, citrus and quinine. 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Dubonnet helped French troops in North Africa get their quinine while British officers in India cut its bitter taste with gin, carbonated water and twist of lime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what about absinthe?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Europeans and South Americans were messing around with cinchona and quinine, the Chinese had an even more powerful malaria drug up their sleeve --or should we say, in their tea cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"According%20to%20a%20commentary%20in%20the%20British%20Journal%20of%20Clinical\">commentary\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, \u003c/em>traditional Chinese doctors have been treating malaria with a tea made from sweet wormwood, or qinghao, for thousands of years. 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"content": "\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/20/167619010/the-paradox-and-mystery-of-our-taste-for-salt\">The Salt at NPR\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Listen to the story from NPR's Morning Edition (12/20/12):\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2012/12/20121220_me_03.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_53138\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/bali-sea-salt.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/bali-sea-salt.jpg\" alt=\"Bali sea salt and a spoonful of Hawaiian red alae salt. Photo: Jim Noelker/AP\" title=\"Bali sea salt and a spoonful of Hawaiian red alae salt. Photo: Jim Noelker/AP\" width=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53138\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bali sea salt and a spoonful of Hawaiian red alae salt. Photo: Jim Noelker/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Salt is one of those dangerously tasty substances. We add the magical crystals of sodium chloride to almost everything that we cook or bake, and according to many \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/salt/\">public health experts\u003c/a>, we add too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They want us to cut back, to lower our risk of heart attacks or strokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet when you really start looking for ways to do this, you run into a paradox and a scientific puzzle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, the paradox. Too much salt may kill us, but our bodies need some of it to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't keep up your sodium level in your body, you will die,\" explains \u003ca href=\"http://www.monell.org/faculty/people/breslin\">Paul Breslin\u003c/a>, a researcher at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.monell.org/\">Monell Center\u003c/a>, a research institute in downtown Philadelphia devoted to the senses of taste and smell. (Breslin also teaches at Rutgers University.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Breslin continues, \"there's no question that people who have high salt intakes are at risk for a heart attack and stroke and death, and that lowering their salt intake will save lives. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_newsAree_1092_listaFile_itemName_1_file.pdf\">Finland\u003c/a>, when they lowered the salt intake, stroke and heart attack rates went way down, and mortality went way down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06alderman.html\">skeptics\u003c/a> who discount the relevance of the Finnish example. The average person in Finland, at that time, was eating a lot more salt than Americans typically do. The anti-salt campaign brought that level down to around the global average. The skeptics say, for most of us, that average level of salt consumption may be just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both the \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/reducingsalt/en/index.html\">World Health Organization\u003c/a> and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are calling on people around the world to cut salt consumption even more. The average American, they say, should cut their intake of salt by a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This won't be easy, because people like salt. It makes many foods taste better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where we get to salt's mystery. Scientists aren't exactly sure how much of our taste for salt is nature, and how much is nurture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, Breslin says, a massive international \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834069/\">study\u003c/a> of salt consumption around the world, conducted in the 1980s, suggests maybe we're born with it. \"All across the planet, with a few exceptions, most people consume more or less the same amount of sodium,\" Breslin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exception is people who can't easily get salt, such as isolated tribes in Amazonia. Everywhere else — from small villages in China to Chicago, people consume similar amounts — much more than our bodies need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If humanity's taste for salt preference really is so universal, Breslin says, it's going to be really hard for any government to convince people to use less of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, there's also some evidence that our preferences do shift, based on what's around us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monell.org/faculty/people/beauchamp\">Gary Beauchamp\u003c/a>, director of the Monell Center, says the first evidence for this came from stories told by doctors who ordered patients with high blood pressure to switch to a low-sodium diet. Their patients reported that \"it was awful at first, but after a while, it wasn't so bad,\" Beauchamp says. Their taste sensors seemed to adapt, a little bit the way our eyes adapt to a dark room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Beauchamp says, after they did that for a while, \"when they went back to their normal food, it was too salty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beauchamp decided to carry out a more carefully monitored \u003ca href=\"http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/36/6/1134.short\">experiment\u003c/a> to study this. He put people on a controlled, low-sodium diet, and they did adapt. \"In about four to eight weeks, the amount of salt that they found optimal in soup or crackers declined by 40 or 50 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems to show that we can get used to foods with less salt in it. So we could be healthier, and still enjoy our food just as much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is, there's no easy way to make this happen. Consumers aren't captives who can be forced to adapt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the salt that we eat comes via food that somebody else makes for us, such as bread, sandwich meat and salad dressing, and the companies that make those products aren't going to cut salt from them if they think it will drive consumers away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We'll always make sure these products taste good,\" says Todd Abraham, senior vice president for research and nutrition at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mondelezinternational.com/home/index.aspx\">Mondelez International\u003c/a>, which makes Ritz crackers, Wheat Thins and Oreos. \"If we produce products that are low-salt and consumers don't buy them, we haven't helped the American diet at all, because they'll go to a different product that has higher levels of salt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of years ago, a committee of scientists from the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine \u003ca href=\"http://www.iom.edu/~/media/Files/Report%20Files/2010/Strategies-to-Reduce-Sodium-Intake-in-the-United-States/Strategies%20to%20Reduce%20Sodium%20Intake%202010%20%20Report%20Brief.pdf\">called\u003c/a> on the government to help solve this problem with regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulations, they pointed out, could force all the food companies to bring down salt levels in unison. There would be no high-salt alternatives, and consumers would eventually adapt to the new taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food industry executives like Abraham don't like that idea. They say that such regulations are impractical. They also argue that regulations aren't necessary, because big food companies now are acting on their own. They are reducing salt levels, slowly and silently, in many processed foods. They're hoping that consumers won't even notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you don't keep up your sodium level in your body, you will die,\" explains \u003ca href=\"http://www.monell.org/faculty/people/breslin\">Paul Breslin\u003c/a>, a researcher at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.monell.org/\">Monell Center\u003c/a>, a research institute in downtown Philadelphia devoted to the senses of taste and smell. (Breslin also teaches at Rutgers University.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, Breslin continues, \"there's no question that people who have high salt intakes are at risk for a heart attack and stroke and death, and that lowering their salt intake will save lives. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_newsAree_1092_listaFile_itemName_1_file.pdf\">Finland\u003c/a>, when they lowered the salt intake, stroke and heart attack rates went way down, and mortality went way down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06alderman.html\">skeptics\u003c/a> who discount the relevance of the Finnish example. The average person in Finland, at that time, was eating a lot more salt than Americans typically do. The anti-salt campaign brought that level down to around the global average. The skeptics say, for most of us, that average level of salt consumption may be just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both the \u003ca href=\"http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/reducingsalt/en/index.html\">World Health Organization\u003c/a> and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are calling on people around the world to cut salt consumption even more. The average American, they say, should cut their intake of salt by a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This won't be easy, because people like salt. It makes many foods taste better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is where we get to salt's mystery. Scientists aren't exactly sure how much of our taste for salt is nature, and how much is nurture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the one hand, Breslin says, a massive international \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834069/\">study\u003c/a> of salt consumption around the world, conducted in the 1980s, suggests maybe we're born with it. \"All across the planet, with a few exceptions, most people consume more or less the same amount of sodium,\" Breslin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exception is people who can't easily get salt, such as isolated tribes in Amazonia. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holiday-table-nicole-spiridakis.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holiday-table-nicole-spiridakis.jpg\" alt=\"Dining table set for the holidays with linens, candlesticks, clementines and gourds. Photo: Nicole Spiridakis for NPR\" title=\"A dining table set for the holidays with linens, candlesticks, clementines and gourds. Photo: Nicole Spiridakis for NPR\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53043\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post and Photos by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cucinanicolina.com/\">Nicole Spiridakis\u003c/a>, NPR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/12/18/167544018/a-gluten-free-holiday-table\">Kitchen Window\u003c/a> (12/19/12)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get recipes for \u003ca href=\"#hummus\">Sweet Potato Hummus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#soup\">Pumpkin-Leek Soup With Coconut Milk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#muffins\">Corn Muffins With Sage And Corn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#squash\">Acorn Squash Stuffed With Wild Rice And Apples\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#gratin\">Kale-Chard Gratin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#sprouts\">Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#pie\">Chocolate Cream Pie\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family's holiday traditions are simple but consistent: Wake up Christmas morning, drink lots of coffee, eat a good breakfast, and wish each other happy happy. If the weather is nice, we postpone the present opening and pile into the car to head directly to the beach for a walk — a sunny December day along the Northern California coast is something to celebrate. Later, we cook a delicious dinner and sit around the table with a fire glowing in the fireplace nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simple, yes, but in these waning days of 2012 there is infinite comfort in the familiar. There are the redwoods still standing tall in the backyard; there is my ritual cup of hot chocolate (the only time I drink it); there is my brother yawning and grinning; there are big bowls of citrus fruit; and there are the neighbor's cats creeping over the doorstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is, inevitably, the discussion about what to cook for the holiday meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few caveats: I don't eat meat, my dad hews to a low-cholesterol diet, my sister-in-law avoids gluten. My brother is generally happy with most things, as long as the meal involves a lot of vegetables and perhaps lamb. My mom and my husband have very few food aversions. Fortunately, despite our specific needs, we are a fairly easygoing bunch as long as the white wine is cold and there's some sort of decadent dessert following dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it requires some forethought. To that end, the vegetarian entree is often marinated and sauteed portobello mushroom \"steaks,\" or a rich and creamy risotto. Potatoes may be roasted with olive oil instead of mashed with butter in a nod to a healthier lifestyle. And with just a little bit of extra effort, it's possible to eliminate gluten altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a vegetarian, I am very conscious of the reality that not everyone can eat everything. When I cook I try to be aware of dietary concerns and needs. I also keep an eye on the health factor. This typically means incorporating lots of seasonal vegetables in high quantities, using whole ingredients and relying on fresh flavors to keep my dishes interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making good use of vegetables and simple ingredients is key to the gluten-free holiday table. In the recipes below, I've attempted to give options for a complete, gluten-free holiday dinner from start to finish, and which I firmly believe will appeal to those who need to avoid gluten as well as those who can tolerate it. Where applicable I've included substitutions for those who also cannot eat dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pumpkin leek soup served with sage-laced corn muffins starts things off on a satisfyingly seasonal note. Roasted acorn squash stuffed with a wild rice mixture that also includes apples and dried cranberries is a hearty and satisfying — and, dare I argue, quite beautiful — naturally gluten-free and vegan main dish (of course, a more traditional roast also can be cooked without a speck of flour). And a smooth, silky chocolate cream pie with a toasted hazelnut-cocoa crust slips down all too quickly to flourlessly complete the repast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dealing with varied dietary restrictions may initially seem daunting and can add yet another complication to this glorious yet hectic season. Don't fret. Keep it simple, keep it fresh, and keep it real.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While my family's holiday traditions may seem distinctly Californian — anchored by that beach trip and clementines that perfume the kitchen — I'd bet that regardless of geography, what we so eagerly anticipate is gathering together to eat and be merry (that and a few presents given and received). It is perhaps the most consistent and enduring holiday tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year I'm hoping for sun along the Pacific — really the only present I could ask for — and a long evening around the table with my nearest and dearest. Also, that chocolate cream pie. Gluten-free or no, it's the perfect way to toast the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"hummus\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Sweet Potato Hummus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a riff on a hummus I came across years ago on food writer Kim O'Donnel's erstwhile food blog, A Mighty Appetite, for \u003c/em>The Washington Post\u003cem>. I dearly love to make it during the holidays. Sweet potatoes stand in for chickpeas in a thick dip that is delicious served with apple slices or gluten-free rice crackers. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidayhummus.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidayhummus.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Potato Hummus\" title=\"Sweet Potato Hummus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53045\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 2 cups\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium yellow onion, peeled and quartered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 cloves garlic, with skins on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 cup tahini\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 tablespoons lemon juice\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 teaspoon black pepper\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a large piece of tin foil, spread out sweet potato pieces, onion and garlic, and drizzle with the olive oil. Fold up into a packet and place in a baking dish. Roast about 45 minutes, or until vegetables are tender. Remove from oven, remove skins from garlic cloves, and place it all in a food processor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Process the vegetables until smooth. Add tahini, lemon juice, salt and pepper, and process until a smooth paste forms. Taste for salt and add more if needed. If hummus is too thick, add a bit more lemon juice or a splash of warm water.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"soup\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Pumpkin-Leek Soup With Coconut Milk\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>If you prefer butternut squash, swap a large squash for the pumpkin. It will taste equally as lovely with the coconut milk.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysoup.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysoup.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin-Leek Soup With Coconut Milk\" title=\"Pumpkin-Leek Soup With Coconut Milk\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53048\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 6 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium-sized sugar pumpkin, or two small sugar pumpkins\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 leeks, thinly sliced (white part only), with green stems discarded\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 tablespoons olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium-sized yellow onion, chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup dry white wine\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon cumin\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>5 cups vegetable broth\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black pepper\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon dried thyme\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 to 1/2 cup coconut milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 400 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cut pumpkin in half and scoop out seeds. Place cut side down on a baking sheet. Add three of the sliced leeks and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Roast for 35 to 40 minutes, until pumpkin is tender. Remove from oven and let cool, then scoop out pumpkin flesh with a spoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in a large pot, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil. Saute remaining leek and chopped yellow onion over medium heat about 5 minutes, until soft. Add cumin and white wine, and stir to combine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Add roasted leeks, pumpkin, broth, salt, pepper and thyme. Bring to a boil, then reduce to simmer and cook about 10 minutes. With an immersion blender or in a food processor, puree the soup until it is very smooth. Just before serving, stir in the coconut milk to taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"muffins\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Corn Muffins With Sage And Corn\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>These muffins pair beautifully with the pumpkin-leek soup, but the recipe also can be baked in a loaf pan and crumbled up to use in a cornbread dressing if you are roasting a bird and need a gluten-free stuffing option. (Note: to make dairy-free, swap soy milk for buttermilk and vegetable oil for butter.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaymuffin_.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaymuffin_.jpg\" alt=\"Corn Muffins With Sage And Corn\" title=\"Corn Muffins With Sage And Corn\" width=\"300\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53046\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 1 dozen muffins\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 cups cornmeal\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 teaspoons baking powder\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon baking soda\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 tablespoons melted unsalted butter\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 large egg, beaten\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup buttermilk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup honey\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 cup fresh or frozen corn\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup chopped fresh sage leaves\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a muffin tin with muffin liners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combine dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, whisk melted butter, egg, buttermilk and honey, and add to dry ingredients. Mix just until combined. Stir in corn and sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pour into muffin tin and fill cups evenly. Bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"squash\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Acorn Squash Stuffed With Wild Rice And Apples\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Chopped apples are a lovely seasonal surprise in this dish that is both gluten-free and vegan. Serve this as your vegetarian entree, or alongside a meaty main dish.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysquash-.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysquash-.jpg\" alt=\"Acorn Squash Stuffed With Wild Rice And Apple\" title=\"Acorn Squash Stuffed With Wild Rice And Apple\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53050\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 medium acorn squash (about 1 1/2 pounds each), halved lengthwise and seeds removed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 medium yellow onion, finely chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 medium shallots, finely chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium carrot, peeled and chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 rib celery, diced\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 large apple, such as Fuji, peeled, cored and finely chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon dried thyme\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon dried rosemary\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 1/2 cups cooked wild rice\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup dried cranberries, finely chopped\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon salt, plus more as needed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon black pepper\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 450 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Place squash cut side up on a baking sheet, brush 1 tablespoon of olive oil over the tops and insides of the squash halves, and season with salt and pepper. Roast until just fork tender, 25 to 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, place 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and add onion, shallots, carrot, celery and apple. Season with salt and pepper and stir to coat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, stirring occasionally, until just softened, about 6 minutes. Stir in thyme and rosemary and cook until just fragrant, about 1 minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove from heat and stir in the rice, cranberries and measured salt and pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divide rice filling among the roasted squash halves (about 1/2 cup for each). Continue roasting until squash is completely fork tender, the edges have started to brown and the filling is heated through, 20 to 25 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"gratin\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Kale-Chard Gratin\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This gratin could hardly be easier to make: steam greens, add a sauteed onion and a little milk and herbs, and bake. The result is something I don't just save for the holidays — it's too good not to eat all winter long. (Note: To make dairy-free, omit cheese and swap soy or nut milk for whole milk.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaygratin.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaygratin.jpg\" alt=\"Kale-Chard Gratin\" title=\"Kale-Chard Gratin\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53044\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 6 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 bunch chard, roughly chopped with bottom stems discarded\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 bunch kale, roughly chopped with bottom stems discarded\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 tablespoons olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium red onion\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon cornstarch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 to 3/4 cup whole milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon dried thyme\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salt and pepper to taste\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup (or less) Parmesan cheese (optional)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 350 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add chard and kale and cook 5 to 10 minutes, until tender. Drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat olive oil over medium heat and add the onion. Saute until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the greens and cook about 2 more minutes. Sprinkle the cornstarch onto the vegetables and stir to combine. Add 1/2 cup milk. You want the chard to be wet but not floating in liquid — add more milk if it's too dry. Stir and cook a few more minutes. Add thyme, salt and pepper, and stir to incorporate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butter a large baking pan and pour in the chard mixture. Evenly sprinkle the Parmesan cheese, if using, across the top. Bake 30 minutes, remove from oven and let rest 5 minutes before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"sprouts\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I was inspired to make this dish after having a wonderful plate of roasted Brussels sprouts at the Washington, D.C., restaurant Zaytinya last month. Roasting the sprouts brings out a bit of sweetness that is nicely balanced by the tart lemon and yogurt sauce. Sometimes I also roast a head of cauliflower and add it to the mix as well. (Note: To make dairy-free, try making the sauce with tahini instead of yogurt.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysprouts.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysprouts.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\" title=\"Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53049\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 pound to 1 pound Brussels sprouts, washed, trimmed and cut in half\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup nonfat Greek yogurt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 tablespoons chopped fresh dill\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon lemon juice\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 medium-sized red onion, thinly sliced\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 425 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread Brussels sprouts in a large baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Cook until tender, about 25 minutes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, whisk together Greek yogurt, dill, lemon juice and salt. When sprouts are done, remove from oven and place in a bowl. Mix in the yogurt sauce and toss to coat the sprouts evenly. Add the onion, and stir gently to incorporate. Serve warm or at room temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"pie\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Chocolate Cream Pie\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I often make a chocolate cream pie for holiday gatherings because it seems just the right amount of decadence to properly celebrate the season. Here, I've come up with a slightly crumbly hazelnut-cocoa crust that is suitably gluten-free as well as utterly addictive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaypie.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaypie.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Cream Pie\" title=\"Chocolate Cream Pie\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53047\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 10 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/2 cups hazelnuts, toasted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons butter, melted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Filling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2/3 cup sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup cornstarch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 large egg yolks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 cups whole milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 350 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For crust, in a food processor, process hazelnuts, sugar and cocoa powder until fine. Place in a bowl and add melted butter. Press onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch pie plate. Bake until slightly crisp, about 25 minutes, and cool on a rack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, make the filling. In a 3-quart heavy saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt and yolks until combined well. Add milk in a stream, whisking. Bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer, whisking, 1 minute (filling will be thick).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Force filling through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, then whisk in chocolate, butter and vanilla. Cover surface of filling with a buttered round of wax paper and cool completely, about 2 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spoon filling into crust and chill pie, loosely covered, at least 6 hours before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">National Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holiday-table-nicole-spiridakis.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holiday-table-nicole-spiridakis.jpg\" alt=\"Dining table set for the holidays with linens, candlesticks, clementines and gourds. Photo: Nicole Spiridakis for NPR\" title=\"A dining table set for the holidays with linens, candlesticks, clementines and gourds. Photo: Nicole Spiridakis for NPR\" width=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53043\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post and Photos by \u003ca href=\"http://www.cucinanicolina.com/\">Nicole Spiridakis\u003c/a>, NPR's \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/12/18/167544018/a-gluten-free-holiday-table\">Kitchen Window\u003c/a> (12/19/12)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get recipes for \u003ca href=\"#hummus\">Sweet Potato Hummus\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#soup\">Pumpkin-Leek Soup With Coconut Milk\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#muffins\">Corn Muffins With Sage And Corn\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#squash\">Acorn Squash Stuffed With Wild Rice And Apples\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#gratin\">Kale-Chard Gratin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"#sprouts\">Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"#pie\">Chocolate Cream Pie\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My family's holiday traditions are simple but consistent: Wake up Christmas morning, drink lots of coffee, eat a good breakfast, and wish each other happy happy. If the weather is nice, we postpone the present opening and pile into the car to head directly to the beach for a walk — a sunny December day along the Northern California coast is something to celebrate. Later, we cook a delicious dinner and sit around the table with a fire glowing in the fireplace nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simple, yes, but in these waning days of 2012 there is infinite comfort in the familiar. There are the redwoods still standing tall in the backyard; there is my ritual cup of hot chocolate (the only time I drink it); there is my brother yawning and grinning; there are big bowls of citrus fruit; and there are the neighbor's cats creeping over the doorstep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is, inevitably, the discussion about what to cook for the holiday meal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few caveats: I don't eat meat, my dad hews to a low-cholesterol diet, my sister-in-law avoids gluten. My brother is generally happy with most things, as long as the meal involves a lot of vegetables and perhaps lamb. My mom and my husband have very few food aversions. Fortunately, despite our specific needs, we are a fairly easygoing bunch as long as the white wine is cold and there's some sort of decadent dessert following dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it requires some forethought. To that end, the vegetarian entree is often marinated and sauteed portobello mushroom \"steaks,\" or a rich and creamy risotto. Potatoes may be roasted with olive oil instead of mashed with butter in a nod to a healthier lifestyle. And with just a little bit of extra effort, it's possible to eliminate gluten altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a vegetarian, I am very conscious of the reality that not everyone can eat everything. When I cook I try to be aware of dietary concerns and needs. I also keep an eye on the health factor. This typically means incorporating lots of seasonal vegetables in high quantities, using whole ingredients and relying on fresh flavors to keep my dishes interesting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making good use of vegetables and simple ingredients is key to the gluten-free holiday table. In the recipes below, I've attempted to give options for a complete, gluten-free holiday dinner from start to finish, and which I firmly believe will appeal to those who need to avoid gluten as well as those who can tolerate it. Where applicable I've included substitutions for those who also cannot eat dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pumpkin leek soup served with sage-laced corn muffins starts things off on a satisfyingly seasonal note. Roasted acorn squash stuffed with a wild rice mixture that also includes apples and dried cranberries is a hearty and satisfying — and, dare I argue, quite beautiful — naturally gluten-free and vegan main dish (of course, a more traditional roast also can be cooked without a speck of flour). And a smooth, silky chocolate cream pie with a toasted hazelnut-cocoa crust slips down all too quickly to flourlessly complete the repast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Dealing with varied dietary restrictions may initially seem daunting and can add yet another complication to this glorious yet hectic season. Don't fret. Keep it simple, keep it fresh, and keep it real.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>While my family's holiday traditions may seem distinctly Californian — anchored by that beach trip and clementines that perfume the kitchen — I'd bet that regardless of geography, what we so eagerly anticipate is gathering together to eat and be merry (that and a few presents given and received). It is perhaps the most consistent and enduring holiday tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year I'm hoping for sun along the Pacific — really the only present I could ask for — and a long evening around the table with my nearest and dearest. Also, that chocolate cream pie. Gluten-free or no, it's the perfect way to toast the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"hummus\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Sweet Potato Hummus\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a riff on a hummus I came across years ago on food writer Kim O'Donnel's erstwhile food blog, A Mighty Appetite, for \u003c/em>The Washington Post\u003cem>. I dearly love to make it during the holidays. Sweet potatoes stand in for chickpeas in a thick dip that is delicious served with apple slices or gluten-free rice crackers. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidayhummus.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidayhummus.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Potato Hummus\" title=\"Sweet Potato Hummus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53045\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 2 cups\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 medium yellow onion, peeled and quartered\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 cloves garlic, with skins on\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 cup tahini\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 tablespoons lemon juice\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 teaspoon black pepper\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 400 degrees. 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Roast until just fork tender, 25 to 30 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, place 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and add onion, shallots, carrot, celery and apple. Season with salt and pepper and stir to coat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cook, stirring occasionally, until just softened, about 6 minutes. Stir in thyme and rosemary and cook until just fragrant, about 1 minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remove from heat and stir in the rice, cranberries and measured salt and pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Divide rice filling among the roasted squash halves (about 1/2 cup for each). Continue roasting until squash is completely fork tender, the edges have started to brown and the filling is heated through, 20 to 25 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"gratin\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Kale-Chard Gratin\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This gratin could hardly be easier to make: steam greens, add a sauteed onion and a little milk and herbs, and bake. The result is something I don't just save for the holidays — it's too good not to eat all winter long. 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Add chard and kale and cook 5 to 10 minutes, until tender. Drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in a large frying pan, heat olive oil over medium heat and add the onion. Saute until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the greens and cook about 2 more minutes. Sprinkle the cornstarch onto the vegetables and stir to combine. Add 1/2 cup milk. You want the chard to be wet but not floating in liquid — add more milk if it's too dry. Stir and cook a few more minutes. Add thyme, salt and pepper, and stir to incorporate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butter a large baking pan and pour in the chard mixture. Evenly sprinkle the Parmesan cheese, if using, across the top. Bake 30 minutes, remove from oven and let rest 5 minutes before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"sprouts\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I was inspired to make this dish after having a wonderful plate of roasted Brussels sprouts at the Washington, D.C., restaurant Zaytinya last month. Roasting the sprouts brings out a bit of sweetness that is nicely balanced by the tart lemon and yogurt sauce. Sometimes I also roast a head of cauliflower and add it to the mix as well. (Note: To make dairy-free, try making the sauce with tahini instead of yogurt.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysprouts.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaysprouts.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\" title=\"Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Greek Yogurt-Lemon Sauce\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53049\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 4 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3/4 pound to 1 pound Brussels sprouts, washed, trimmed and cut in half\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons olive oil\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup nonfat Greek yogurt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 tablespoons chopped fresh dill\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon lemon juice\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 medium-sized red onion, thinly sliced\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 425 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spread Brussels sprouts in a large baking dish and drizzle with olive oil. Cook until tender, about 25 minutes\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, whisk together Greek yogurt, dill, lemon juice and salt. When sprouts are done, remove from oven and place in a bowl. Mix in the yogurt sauce and toss to coat the sprouts evenly. Add the onion, and stir gently to incorporate. Serve warm or at room temperature.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca name=\"pie\">\u003c/a>Recipe: Chocolate Cream Pie\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I often make a chocolate cream pie for holiday gatherings because it seems just the right amount of decadence to properly celebrate the season. Here, I've come up with a slightly crumbly hazelnut-cocoa crust that is suitably gluten-free as well as utterly addictive.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaypie.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/12/holidaypie.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Cream Pie\" title=\"Chocolate Cream Pie\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53047\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Makes 10 servings\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Crust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 1/2 cups hazelnuts, toasted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons butter, melted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Filling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2/3 cup sugar\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/4 cup cornstarch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1/2 teaspoon salt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4 large egg yolks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3 cups whole milk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>7 ounces bittersweet chocolate, melted\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1 teaspoon vanilla\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heat oven to 350 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For crust, in a food processor, process hazelnuts, sugar and cocoa powder until fine. Place in a bowl and add melted butter. Press onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch pie plate. Bake until slightly crisp, about 25 minutes, and cool on a rack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, make the filling. In a 3-quart heavy saucepan, whisk together sugar, cornstarch, salt and yolks until combined well. Add milk in a stream, whisking. Bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking, then reduce heat and simmer, whisking, 1 minute (filling will be thick).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Force filling through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl, then whisk in chocolate, butter and vanilla. Cover surface of filling with a buttered round of wax paper and cool completely, about 2 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spoon filling into crust and chill pie, loosely covered, at least 6 hours before serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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