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Article: Nothing says comfort food like a hearty bowl of macaroni and cheese
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- January 11, 2006
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NEW YORK -- Macaroni and cheese is just the kind of all-American,
old-fashioned home cooking I was not raised on.
New York City in the 1970s was a hotbed of culinary radicalism.
Food-forward parents such as mine served dinners of homemade falafel,
Mediterranean fish stew or stir-fried beef with broccoli. To me,
dishes such as spaghetti and meatballs, mashed potatoes with gravy
and macaroni and cheese seemed exotic and unattainable.
Naturally, this is where my greatest passions lie as a cook. And
after the frenzy of holiday cooking, a simple dish such as macaroni
and cheese is just what I want to make now.
Lacking a family recipe, I turned to cookbooks for guidance. A
strange substance called ...