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Taking Stock
I need only a tasting spoon to tell you that Gourmet’s roast turkey will make a wonderful base for gravy and/or soup.
11.13.06
- Keywords
- ingredients,
- food prep,
- thanksgiving,
- behind the scenes,
- test kitchen
food + cooking
The Joan Rivers Effect
A couple of readers have criticized the "burned-looking turkey" on our November cover. If you think that turkey was burned, you’ve been bamboozled.
11.10.06
food + cooking
What's for Dinner?
Test kitchen work is mythical stuff. Shedding light on our corner of the magazine is not an easy task. Many of the rumors are true, some are not.
11.03.06
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- behind the scenes,
- ian knauer
food + cooking
The Plane, the Plane
In a lucky turn of events I became the new muse of Kitchen Notebook. There was one issue that no one had yet thought of.
10.17.06
- Keywords
- culinary culture,
- behind the scenes,
- maggie ruggiero
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70s Introduction
The 1970s were intimately connected with getting, spending, and the self.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- behind the scenes
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80s Introduction
Before American food lovers had finished absorbing the meaning of the 1970s, the noisy contradictions of the next decade were ringing in their ears.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- behind the scenes
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90s Introduction
America limped toward the end of the century amid much pious rhetoric about swapping the expensive fripperies of the past 20 years for old-fashioned values.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- behind the scenes
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Gourmet's First Decade
Contrary to later opinion, January of 1941 was a fine moment to launch a magazine that celebrated civilized and even luxurious dining.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- culinary culture,
- behind the scenes
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60s Introductions
Race riots, antiwar protests, assassinations, the summer of love, bra burnings, the Beatles.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- behind the scenes,
- restaurants
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50s Introduction
With the war behind it and the cheery face of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Oval Office, the nation enjoyed a period of unprecedented prosperity.
September 2001
- Keywords
- anne mendelson,
- behind the scenes,
- travel