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25 Must-Download Web-Only Recipes from Gourmet.com

Posted Oct 19th 2009 9:30AM by Kat Kinsman
Filed under: Magazines, Tinfoil Swan

Savory Duck Fat Doughnuts. Photo: Gourmet.com.

Some of the most notable "Gourmet" recipes never made it to the magazine. Through its 69-year run, the magazine's food editors and test kitchen staff developed hundreds of adventurous, experimental, personal and just plain luscious recipes that for one reason or another escaped the print edition. With Gourmet.com's 2008 launch, multimedia supplements to magazine features, test kitchen video throw-downs, staffers' favorites and perusals of family archives afforded the opportunity to showcase Web-exclusive content, and a chance to serve up these recipes to their more cyber-savvy readers.

Though an Oct. 13 Tweet by the magazine's Executive Editor John Willoughby advised followers to "Go to gourmet.com, copy Web-exclusive recipes that will disappear: strawberry dumpling, banana upside down cake, curried pork noodles, etc.", Slashfood has been told by other Condé Nast insiders that after the magazine's recent, sudden shuttering, the future of Gourmet.com content remains uncertain, save for mag-published recipes that will be migrated to sister site Epicurious.com.

We're not taking any chances. We've clicked our way through 300-plus Web-exclusive recipes from October 2005 to September 2009 to find the 25 you simply must copy, paste and collect before they're (possibly) lost to the ages.

1. Frozen Peanut Butter Pie with Candied Bacon
Recipe by Andrea Albin

2. Potted Stuffed Squab
Recipe by Edna Lewis

3. Confit Gizzard with Honey Mustard
Recipe by Ian Knauer

4. Savory Duck Fat Doughnuts
Recipe by Ian Knauer

Get more recipes -- including Dijon ice cream and zucchini whoopie pies -- after the jump.

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Country Ham, Day 1

Posted Dec 29th 2008 12:00AM by Kat Kinsman
Filed under: Pork, How To, Southern States, America, Meat, New Year's, Local Eating, Artisan Foods, Guilty Pleasures

It would seem that providence has brought me a country ham. Upon reading a Facebook posting of mine last night, crowing about (okay, showing off), my haul of whole hog BBQ from Ed Mitchell's The Pit in Raleigh, a dear pal inquired as to the possibility of my acquiring a ham for him while I was still in North Carolina. My husband Douglas and I were planning hitting the road at an unholy hour this morning, so I gave a Chapel Hill Harris Teeter the ol' Tarheel try 'round about midnight. Plenty of Harris' She Crab soup, Duke's mayo, Cheerwine and Peanut Butter Moon Pies to be had, but not so much with the artisanal pig products. Well shoot! I'd tried.

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Fried chicken and sweet potato pie

Posted Mar 12th 2008 4:02PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Books, Magazines, Television/Film, On the Blogs

A couple of weeks ago, I featured a cookbook called A Taste of Country Cooking in our Cookbook of the Day column. Written by Edna Lewis, it is one of the definitive works on classic Southern cooking out there. That post spurred filmmaker Bailey Barash to comment in order to let us know that she produced a 21 minute documentary about Miss Lewis.

I've taken the time to watch the documentary and I'm posting about it now because it's far too good to let it just hang out in the comments. You can watch it on Gourmet Magazine's website or on Georgia Public Broadcasting's website. Thanks Bailey, for letting us know about your wonderful film!

The Taste of Country Cooking, Cookbook of the Day

Posted Feb 28th 2008 1:05PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Books, Comfort Food, Cookbook Spotlight

I first heard of Edna Lewis's The Taste of Country Cooking while reading Orangette a couple of weeks ago. Molly's description of this cooking classic made me think that it sounded like a book I needed to own. Only a few moments later, I had completed my amazon transaction and the book was on its way to me.

It arrived a few days later, and I've been reading it straight through, like a novel, ever since I got my hands on it. Nearing the end, I'm slowing down the pace of my reading because I know the time is coming when there won't be anymore new-to-me words in this text and that looming reality makes me sad.

I bought my copy used, and so it opens to the pages that the previous owner visited most frequently. They must have liked the fried chicken section, because when left to its own devices, that's where this book goes. However, I don't think that anyone actually cooked from this book, mostly because it is devoid of those telling splatters that accidentally occur when you bring a book into the kitchen.

Foodies who love the written word, hear my words. This book is a must have. Do yourself a favor and get yourself a copy, settle down with a beverage and read until you are compelled to leap up and head for the stove.

Southern food author Edna Lewis dies

Posted Feb 14th 2006 6:05PM by Nick Vagnoni
Filed under: Newspapers, Southern States, America, Comfort Food

Edna Lewis, author of highly regarded cookbooks on Southern cuisine, recently died at the age of 89. In her time, Lewis penned such titles as The Taste of Country Cooking and The Gift of Southern Cooking. The latter was co-authored with her friend, and later, caretaker, Scott Peacock. Today's New York Times has an obituary by food writers Eric Asimov and Kim Severson. The Southern Foodways Alliance also has links to several other articles about Lewis.

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