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A Garland for sure...
in that kitchen ca. 2001 as donated, but don't belive that is a 1950s model.
in that kitchen ca. 2001 as donated, but don't belive that is a 1950s model.
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And that is why some cookbook recipes
do not work! Rarely are famous chef recipes retested on home equipment. Ms M. Kostyra Stewart is particularly bad about that. Many recipes in her early books were disasters in a home kitchen (including mine.)
I am getting ready to launch my blog, (I bought the domain name two weeks ago.) and have been doing reading and research. The food and cooking illiteracy here in the States is not only sad, but frightening. Most of the big multinational food companies do not have their consumers' best interest at heart. Don't get me wrong, there are Stouffer's in my freezer, and Dole, DelMonte, and Progresso cans in my kitchen, but I also know how to cook from scratch, and often do.
Yes, technique is important, and even more freeing. Once you learn how to poach a chicken breast, you can poach a fish fillet. And so on, and so on. From the broth that is left over from the chicken breast, you can enrich it with cooked chicken bones and some onion, celery, and carrot, and make a soup. Remove the bones before eating the soup....
Michele Urvater's show "How To Boil Water" would not find a home on today's TVFN. It's a good show, and so are her books.
Likewise Sara Moulton. Her "Cooking Live" was not only fun, but truly informative.
I could go on. and on.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
do not work! Rarely are famous chef recipes retested on home equipment. Ms M. Kostyra Stewart is particularly bad about that. Many recipes in her early books were disasters in a home kitchen (including mine.)
I am getting ready to launch my blog, (I bought the domain name two weeks ago.) and have been doing reading and research. The food and cooking illiteracy here in the States is not only sad, but frightening. Most of the big multinational food companies do not have their consumers' best interest at heart. Don't get me wrong, there are Stouffer's in my freezer, and Dole, DelMonte, and Progresso cans in my kitchen, but I also know how to cook from scratch, and often do.
Yes, technique is important, and even more freeing. Once you learn how to poach a chicken breast, you can poach a fish fillet. And so on, and so on. From the broth that is left over from the chicken breast, you can enrich it with cooked chicken bones and some onion, celery, and carrot, and make a soup. Remove the bones before eating the soup....
Michele Urvater's show "How To Boil Water" would not find a home on today's TVFN. It's a good show, and so are her books.
Likewise Sara Moulton. Her "Cooking Live" was not only fun, but truly informative.
I could go on. and on.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Garland Stove
According to this and other sources I've seen she bought her Garland in 1956.
"The piece de resistance was Child’s Garland six-burner, commercial gas oven range, manufactured in the 1950s.
The stove had already been used in a restaurant when the Childs purchased it for $429 in Washington in 1956, and the cook long praised her “big Garland.”
According to this and other sources I've seen she bought her Garland in 1956.
"The piece de resistance was Child’s Garland six-burner, commercial gas oven range, manufactured in the 1950s.
The stove had already been used in a restaurant when the Childs purchased it for $429 in Washington in 1956, and the cook long praised her “big Garland.”
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Martha.
Ms. Stewart would make her recipes SO THEY WOULDN'T WORK on home equipment, I'd think; just so she can say 'Oh, I have this 20,000 dollar Aga stove and you don't. You, therefore, are sub human!' She didn't actually say that of course, but that was clearly the subtext.
Hate to tell these 'celebrity chefs' but most of us are real people.
I would rather have a really well cooked meal of simple dishes than the fanciest poorly cooked stuff. Example: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and peas are absolutely delicious if well done. Or really good hamburgers. Etc.
Ms. Stewart would make her recipes SO THEY WOULDN'T WORK on home equipment, I'd think; just so she can say 'Oh, I have this 20,000 dollar Aga stove and you don't. You, therefore, are sub human!' She didn't actually say that of course, but that was clearly the subtext.
Hate to tell these 'celebrity chefs' but most of us are real people.
I would rather have a really well cooked meal of simple dishes than the fanciest poorly cooked stuff. Example: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes, and peas are absolutely delicious if well done. Or really good hamburgers. Etc.
