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‘The Silver Palate Cookbook’ Changed Home Cooking (and Pesto Consumption) As We Know It

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Workman Publishing Company/Eater Published in 1982, it brought verve to entertaining and taught a generation of American cooks to trust in bold flavors, fresh herbs, and the joys of improvisation If you lived through the 1980s there’s a decent chance that, at some point, you crossed paths with raspberry vinaigrette, pesto, and arugula. By the end of the decade, they had become part of the atmosphere hanging over American society, like a giant cloud of Aqua Net holding up so many teased bangs. Many loved these foods; many others derided them as pretentious yuppie garbage. But the source of their popularity, at least in home kitchens, was all but undisputed: The Silver Palate Cookbook , originally published in 1982, more than 2.5 million copies sold. The cookbook was a product of its time and place: New York’s Upper West Side in the late 1970s and early ’80s. A world synonymous (at least in the mind of the average moviegoer) with Woody Allen and then Nora Ephron. You can bet that be...

Matt Lucas’s Time on ‘Great British Bake Off’ Is Cooked

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Matt Lucas, goodbye. | Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images Who should replace the divisive baking show host? After three seasons, 51 episodes, and a whole lot of viewer anguish, Great British Baking Show co-host Matt Lucas is leaving the tent for good. I personally could not be more thrilled, and it seems like just about everyone else on the internet feels exactly the same way. Lucas announced his departure from the series in a tweet on Tuesday, saying that he simply couldn’t juggle his other commitments, including an appearance in the upcoming reboot of British TV show Fantasy Football League , and his Bake Off hosting duties at the same time. Throughout the run of the most recent season, Bake Off fans wrote numerous blogs and Reddit threads demanding Lucas’s departure from the show, complaining about Lucas’s doofy antics and occasionally racist jokes , not to mention his awkward interactions with the show’s endlessly charming contestants. There was even a Change.org pet...

Here Are All the New San Francisco Bay Area Michelin Starred Restaurants for 2022

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Netflix’s Drink Masters Delves Into the Murky Realms of Mixology

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Who Are the ‘Wine Jockeys’ Pouring Pet-Nat for the Club Kids?

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Announcing the 2022 Eater Awards Winners

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Dishes from Claud, an Eater NY award winner for best wine bar. | Claud From Atlanta to San Francisco, Eater cities toast the restaurants and chefs, the impressive transformations and celebratory vibes that defined the year In the lead up to the publication of our national Best New Restaurants list, which drops tomorrow, behold the 2022 Eater Awards . The annual tradition sees Eater editors in cities across the country plus London name the best restaurants, bakeries, pop-ups, and other standout food businesses in their cities. These are the spots that have driven conversation and drawn hungry diners over the past 12 months. The specific honorifics are wide ranging and unique to each city. Atlanta’s fish-market-slash-fish-restaurant Fishmonger is declared a breakout hit , while Eater LA recognizes Korean-American restaurant Yangban Society for displaying the most impressive transformation . Austin, fittingly , has a best food truck this year in taco truck Con Todo. And in Philly, Ma...

The Town That Panettone Built

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Fiasconaro Bakery A tiny medieval village hidden inside a national park produces world-famous Sicilian panettone Nicola Fiasconaro pulls a floppy mass of panettone dough off of a conveyor belt, plops it onto a steel work table, and shapes the buttery, fruit-studded goop into a perfect little round. The legendary pastry chef makes it look easy, despite the dough’s reputation as impossible. Fiasconaro, who deflects when asked for his age, has been making artisan, naturally leavened, tradition-rich Sicilian panettone for over 30 years, ever since he started baking the traditionally Northern Italian bread at his father’s Sicilian bakery alongside traditional Southern offerings of cannoli, cassata, and ice cream. This is a man who has baked panettone for not one, not two, but three different popes. He could make — and probably has made — panettone with his eyes closed. Fiasconaro Bakery Nicola Fiasconaro The Italian bread is enriched with a delirious quantity of butter, eggs, an...