Cook 'N' Tell Cooking School

03/08/2025

incredible & amazing !
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02/06/2023

06/19/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/dining/molly-oneill-dead.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ffood&action=click&contentCollection=dining®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront
I always enjoyed her columns in New York Times and her books. One could always learn something from her writings.
She will be missed.

She was a keen observer of what she called the “essential tension in the American appetite,” a reflection of the country’s cultural conflicts.

06/08/2019

Check out this excellent 🥑 video. 😋 🥑

What Chef Roberto Santibañez wants cooks to realize about guacamole is this: "There is a very important textural thing to guacamole -- we never really mush u...

05/06/2018

03/30/2018

Thinking of ALL the children's cooking classes I have taught and enjoyed for the past 25+ years! so many wonderful memories!

Good times for kids

03/18/2018

Holly Whitstock Seeger ‘s original artwork for Cook ‘N’ Tell 👩🏼‍🍳 circa 1990! Thanks Holly 👩‍🎨 !

11/18/2017

Thanksgiving/Turkey article in Wall Street Journal today -author quotes my friend and colleague Rick Rodgers :

"Before setting off on my quest, I called up Rick Rodgers, the man who literally wrote the book on the holiday, “Thanksgiving 101,” a collection of recipes, time-
tables and other strategies for pulling off the preparation with military precision. In his time as a teacher, writer and recipe developer, Mr. Rodgers has tried it all: low-and-slow, hot-and-fast, dry brining, wet brining, foil-wrapping, packing the bird in a paper bag, chilling the breasts with ice packs, mopping them with butter-soaked cheesecloth. One holiday, he nearly burned down his garage by way of a frozen bird and a deep fryer. “Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel every year because the turkeys most of us grew up eating were dry and just not very good,” he said. “But there are sensible ways to do it. You don’t have to be a hero.” "

11/15/2017

Getting ready for Thanksgiving!
✔️ this off the list - lasts for weeks 😋

05/23/2017

Food in the 21st century has become much more than “meat and potatoes” and canned soup casseroles.” Chefs have gained celebrity status; recipes and exotic ingredients, once impossible to find, are now just a mouse click away; and the country's major cities are better known for their gastronomy than…