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Step-by-Step Scoops
Ice cream tips from a pro
Personalize Your Pint:
Spruce up store-bought ice cream with the addition of fruit jam, syrup, cookie pieces or candy bits by allowing the ice cream to soften at room tempera ... read more
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Inside Scoop
The Ultimate Ice Cream Book author Chef Bruce Weinstein shares the pleasures of homemade ice cream for National Ice Cream Month
It's cool, it's creamy, and it's one of America’s undying passions: ice cream. Thomas Jefferson wrote one of the first recipes for strawberry ice cream in his own hand. ... read more
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Down East Delicacy
At Waterman's in Maine, dishing up a simple lobster roll is a family business
Four miles outside the little fishing village of South Thomaston, Maine, a tree-lined road meanders toward a tiny peninsula where a weathered, grey-shingle beach shack crouche ... read more
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Tips From a Master Gardener
John Coykendall of Blackberry Farm teaches how generations can bond in the garden.
Gardening offers grandparents extended periods of time with their grandchildren, as well as the satisfaction of sharing physical work and creating something together. John Coy ... read more
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Plotting the Future
When master gardener John Coykendall was a child, nothing fascinated him more than his family garden plot, today his grandson finds a row to hoe beside him.
John Coykendall is 65 years old and lives in the house that he grew up in, the house that his great-grandfather built, in the Sequoia Hills section of West Knoxville, Tenn.. H ... read more
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Tips From a Grandmother - and Chef - for All Seasons
Chef Lidia Bastianich shares the wisdom of her Italian kitchen.
Chef Lidia Bastianich uses food to keep her five grandchildren in the present, with their feet on the ground. She also uses it to teach the new brood about the generations tha ... read more
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Baking With Baba
In columnist, master baker, and cookbook writer Flo Braker's kid-friendly kitchen there's always a line of tiny sous chefs at the ready.
Flo Braker started baking for her grandchildren long before she ever had any. "My first grandchild," she says, "was a dog." Chelsea, her daughter Julie and son-in-law Robert's ... read more
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A Taste for the Past
Coming to America - and leaving her beloved grandmother behind - led Lidia Bastianich to explore memory through food, an adventure she now shares with her own grandchildren.
From the beginning, says chef Lidia Bastianich, she cooked to keep her grandmother with her. Bastianich had spent her early years with her large, extended family in Trieste, I ... read more
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A Down Home Passover
For Marcie Cohen Ferris, who grew up Jewish in the South, the anticipation of Passover was half the fun.
As one of a small community of Jews in Blytheville, Ark., in the 1960s, Marcie Cohen Ferris, the author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (UNC Press, 20 ... read more
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A Well-Rounded Table
The old and new, meet at author Judy Bart Kancigors Passover table.
Judy Bart Kancigor, author of Cooking Jewish, 532 Great Recipes From the Rabinowitz Family (Workman, 2007), spends every Passover with her two sons, their wives and four grand ... read more
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Brave New Palate
A chef specializing in Indian cuisine takes on the problem of the picky eater in her own home.
Suneeta Vaswani has known a few picky eaters in her time. A chef, cooking instructor, and cookbook author who was raised in Bombay and has lived in Houston for 30 years, she ... read more
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From the Garden to the Table
California chef Jesse Cool finds creative ways to engage her grandchildren in healthy cooking and eating.
Jesse Cool, a restaurateur and cookbook author, keeps a garden in Palo Alto, Calif., on the grounds of Standford University that is so large she jokingly refers to it as &ldqu ... read more
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The Yankee Yenta Grandmothers
The Brass sisters and their family favorites
Marilynn and Sheila Brass became grandmothers-at-large by accident. The sisters, neither of whom ever married, have no descendents. Yet their first cookbook, Heirloom Baking W ... read more
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My Granddaughter, My Daughter, Myself
The tradition of passing on delicious recipes to the next generation
When she was 4 days old, Elliott Antonia joined her grandmother, the cookbook author Eileen Yin-Fei Lo in the kitchen. Lo was testing the recipes for her tenth book, My Grandm ... read more
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Hail the Queen of Celebrations: Sheila Lukins
How this award-winning cookbook writer lures her family home for dinner
Americans love to celebrate, says Sheila Lukins, co-founder of The Silver Palate, author of six cookbooks, columnist for Parade magazine and grandmother extraordinaire. (&ldqu ... read more
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Passing on the Torch of Good Taste
Grandma's little foodies
“Gramma,” declared Adam Goldstein when he was 10 years old, “ever since I was 3 and ate at Ton Kiang, I’ve had an Asian palate.”
Even his grandmo ... read more
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Small Chefs, Big Pie
A family's weakness for fudge pie
Toni Byrd is a cooking instructor at the Viking Range Company, which is located in her hometown of Greenwood, in the Mississippi Delta. She is also a yoga teacher. It is an un ... read more
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