On my way home from work last night, I stopped into the grocery store to pick up a few things, and noticed that rhubarb was on sale this week. I have kind of an unspoken motto in my kitchen, which is that if I’m going to try to make a dish that I’m not [...]

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My family goes to the same spot in Jamaica every year, and my dad always tells us that he swears the restaurant at the resort we stay at puts something in their chocolate cake to make it completely addictive. He might be right, because I always find myself going back for an extra bowl or [...]

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I will hazard a guess, right now, that there are not many 26-year-old attorneys in Manhattan who have baked a layer cake from scratch, complete with two types of buttercream frosting. In fact, I will go a little bit further, and even guess that there are not too many non-lawyers who’ve done it either.
I think [...]

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I stink at making chocolate mousse.  And, I mean, you can probably tell that from the picture.  Mousse is supposed to be light, and incredibly soft and airy.  Mine is a lump of the thickest, densest, sweetest, in-your-face chocolate you could find.
What you can’t tell from the picture is that this is the third time [...]

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Perhaps I have been reading a little too much Alice Waters, but really, can you possibly do any better than fresh berries and whipped cream? I have a soft spot, particularly, for this dessert, because I ordered it on one of my very first dates with my fiancé, at one of those Greenwich Village mock-european [...]

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