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I love this bread. I learned the finer points of producing foccacia from two people. The first was Francesco Ricci, who made some of the best bread I ever tasted. The second was a pastry chef that I met while on a short stint in a hotel early in my career. She was actually trained in Italy to make this bread and taught me how important the use of olive oil is to a good foccacia. This bread bakes up so light and airy and just sucks up the xvoo. I can't stress enough the importance of high qu...
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    Frying turkeys is not exactly avant garde these days, but it wasn’t until fifteen or twenty years ago that home cooks starting messing with it. It seems obvious that this process started in hunting camps where there is likely to be some source of heat and a large pot, but not much in the way of an oven and quite often no expertise atallatall. Lots of things can be fried and many outdoors types like fried food. Because Why? Probably because it’s bad for you and giv...


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