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Our mission is no less than to demystify the kitchen and is so doing render complex techniques simple and define the mundane as well as the obscure for all to use.

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Useful Tip

Tired of flat cookies?

People ask me all the time why their cookies run flat when they bake them. The answer is easy. They are skipping a critical step which is to let the dough cool in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes … [more]

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Espagnole

One of the “mother sauces”. A sauce made of brown stock and flavoring ingredients (herbs, mirepoix , tomato, and tomato puree) and thickened with a brown roux . [more]