28 Apr 2011, Posted by admin in MEET, 2 Comments

The Prudence Penny Recipe Series


A few years ago, an editor took me to the home of Kit Snedaker, the former editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Now in her 90s, Kit is determined not to let the fiery Prudence Penny (aka Prudent and Pennywise, the culinary “Dear Abby” of the day) be forgotten. Before Kit retired in the 1980s, she found boxes and boxes of recipe clippings along with drafts that never made it to print (dating to 1917!) shoved beside a dumpster awaiting their fate. Kit saved those Prudence Penny recipes, but never got around to doing anything with them. So, she handed them over to me. Which means that occasionally, I am going to share recipes from the Prudence days, or simply fun anecdotes (sparring with Emily Post over when a salad course should be served is among my favorites).

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03 Jan 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

New Year’s Resolutions: Eat (And Bake) More, Obsess Less — The Hamburger Bun Edition


It seems as good a year as any to make a resolution to make (and eat) more hamburger buns. Why? Because people used to do that sort of thing at home, back before Pepperidge Farm and Sara Lee and friends got together for a factory-induced, fluffy white, mediocrity mouth feel moment. And because homemade hamburger buns really do make whatever you pile onto them — medium rare, oops-overdone, even meatless mystery items — taste so much better. Plus, they’re fun to make. Or at least once you get over that Platonian hangup that a circle must be perfect. This is a hamburger bun recipe, not a Geometry pop quiz question. Turn the page for more, including a recipe.

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