Pick Up The Fork

A Serious Eater's Guide to Buenos Aires and Beyond

Bob Cobb’s Salad

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How can I talk about a Cobb Salad without showing a clip from one of my favorite Curb Your Enthusiasm Episodes?

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Curry in a hurry

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Once I tried to smuggle Indian food into a movie theater. Wasn’t the best idea for many reasons: The smell, this one is a given… I reeked of Indian spices, as if I bathed in pungent coriander and tumeric stew, liberally rubbing garam masala as a body scrub.

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Fat Pasta, Skinny Pasta

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For those who are not regulars in the kitchen, and you want to impress someone for the first time with your cooking, there is one secret ingredient that will never disappoint – BUTTER. Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way and when I first began cooking up a storm, I also ate my way through […]

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Veggie Burger and Bulgur

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New food processor in hand, I thought the first thing to make should be a homemade veggie burger with a side of a tabbouleh-like salad. I couldn’t find a recipe that I liked, so I just made one up using grilled vegetables, beans, and spices.

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Brownies, two ways

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What kind of brownies should I make? Dulce de leche to porteño-ize, or cheesecake to yanki-nate? Both? Done. You would think that taking on these tasks would be moderately time consuming, indulgent, and messy. Maybe. But the hardest part was finding the main ingredients: cocoa powder and high quality semi sweet baking chocolate. 

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