In 1994, my mom’s best friend, and my “spiritual” mother, Ann Wall Frank wrote a fabulously hilarious little cookbook titled Cooking For Your Evil Twin: Devilishly Tempting Recipes for the Modern Woman.
I was looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe the other day and remembered Ann’s swoon-inducing decadent version. This is no Tollhouse cookie, my [...]

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I love all types of books. I guess you could classify me as a voracious reader. I also tend to buy books faster than I can read them (darn you, Amazon.com 1-Click!). There is one type of book, however, that I consistently, almost obsessively, purchase and almost never read - cookbooks. I’m addicted to them: [...]

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I mentioned before the items I inherited from my Grandmother’s kitchen. One of these items happened to be a Presto Pressure Cooker, in quite good shape actually. When I opened it I found a Recipe Book dated 1968 (the year I was born). The introduction says, “The Modern Way to Cook: For Family Health [...]

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