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Recipe: Chestnut-celery root purée
Total time: 45 minutes, plus roasting/blanching and peeling time for the chestnuts
Servings: 6 to 8
3 cups peeled and coarsely chopped chestnuts (about 1 1/2 pounds nuts in their shells)
1/2 pound celery root, peeled and cut in 1/2 -inch dice
1...Tags: Butter, Salt, Shallots
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Gentle Feast
For so many years, I’ve been the awkward vegan at the festive holiday table, trying to fit in but branded with a big V on my forehead as I pile brussels sprouts and green beans onto my plate. “Poor girl,” I can just hear them saying, while they draw...Tags: Sage, Holidays, Dining and Drinking, Butter, Mashed Potatoes
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Count on Lucques to get it right
![AFTER the din of the restaurant last night, <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/restaurants/lucques-venue">Lucques</a> is heaven. No raucous birthday parties or pounding heavy-metal soundtrack. No standing around waiting for our table, whacked by passing monolithic handbags. I don't have to fight my way in or worry that the reservation desk has lost our reservation. I don't have to wonder whether the chef is in or not, because either way the food is consistently delightful and original.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-01/34327931-22123536.jpg "AFTER the din of the restaurant last night, <a href="http://theguide.latimes.com/restaurants/lucques-venue\">Lucques</a> is heaven. No raucous birthday parties or pounding heavy-metal soundtrack. No standing around waiting for our table, whacked by passing monolithic handbags. I don't have to fight my way in or worry that the reservation desk has lost our reservation. I don't have to wonder whether the chef is in or not, because either way the food is consistently delightful and original.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAFTER the din of the restaurant last night, Lucques is heaven. No raucous birthday parties or pounding heavy-metal soundtrack. No standing around waiting for our table, whacked by passing monolithic handbags. I don't have to fight my way in or worry...Tags: Beets, Bars and Clubs, Steaks, Breads, Dining and Drinking
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Chat with California Cook columnist Russ Parsons
Times Staff Writer2007-11-15 13:05:56.0 Russ Parsons: Hey everybody, a couple of things before we get started. First and foremost, we've put up a real treasure trove of Thanksgiving articles and recipes on the website: http://www.latimes.com/features/food/ There are...Tags: Family, Holidays, Breads, Mashed Potatoes, Butter
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Recipe: CASTAGNACCIO (Florentine Chestnut-Flour Cake With Rosemary and Pine Nuts)
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNote: Piero Antinori says: "It is a very old tradition in Tuscany to eat chestnuts. We enjoy them boiled or roasted with the new wines. In the countryside, they still make a sort of chestnut polenta called pattone. We also have several sweets or...Tags: Los Angeles Times
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Hearty fall fare pleases at Brewer's Art
If any local fine-dining restaurant has a better shot than another of surviving in this economy, it would be the Brewer's Art in Mount Vernon. My reasoning is simple here.
First, when anything is going on at the Lyric or Meyerhoff, the place will be...Tags: Shrimp, Arable Farming, Salads, Dining and Drinking, Mount Vernon
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Step-by-step guide to skinning a chestnut
As delicious as fresh chestnuts are, there's no denying that preparing them can be a real pain in the neck. The shell comes off with no problem -- it's thin and pliable. It's the skin underneath that's the hassle, because it sticks to the nut like glue....Tags: Fennel
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The return of the American chestnut
On a hill just outside the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour northeast of Sacramento, stands a sweet 1890s Victorian farmhouse surrounded by several acres of venerable-looking gardens. ¶ There are craggy cherry and plum trees and an...Tags: New York, Missouri, Modesto, Stockton, Italy
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Best cookbooks of a great season
Special to The TimesWALK into the cookbook section of a good bookstore these days and it's what you don't see that's the biggest gift of the season. Instead of the miles of aisles of Food Network-packaged slickness, the interchangeable Paula/Rachael/Giadas that have been...Tags: Salads, Coconut, Dining and Drinking, Cheese Corn, Squash
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Turkish pride and The Times
We've had plenty of cause for celebration lately that we are not bound by Article 301 of the Turkish penal code (which specifies a six-month-to-three year prison sentence for insulting "being a Turk, the Republic or Turkish Grand National Assembly") or...Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Russia, Hate Crimes, Crimes
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Light bites for the big day
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe most challenging part of Thanksgiving dinner is not getting the turkey and 16 forms of trimmings to the table. It's deciding what to serve before those 17 components of the heaviest meal of the year. Offer something too calorie-free with the...Tags: Holidays, Breads, Cheese Corn, Carrots, Trout
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Music review: Joshua Bell at the Hollywood Bowl
![Bramwell Tovey conducted "Petrushka" at the <a href="http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/">Hollywood Bowl</a> on Tuesday night. But before he did, the principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its summer concerts explained that Stravinsky kills off the eponymous puppet in his 1911 ballet by having a percussionist throw a tambourine down on a wooden table. Tovey said he had instructed a camera to pan to said tambourine and table at the appropriate moment so everyone would see them on the Bowl's video screens.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41732144-20143835.jpg "Bramwell Tovey conducted "Petrushka\" at the <a href=\"http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/\">Hollywood Bowl</a> on Tuesday night. But before he did, the principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its summer concerts explained that Stravinsky kills off the eponymous puppet in his 1911 ballet by having a percussionist throw a tambourine down on a wooden table. Tovey said he had instructed a camera to pan to said tambourine and table at the appropriate moment so everyone would see them on the Bowl's video screens.")
Times Music CriticBramwell Tovey conducted "Petrushka" at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. But before he did, the principal guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its summer concerts explained that Stravinsky kills off the eponymous puppet in his 1911...Tags: Boxing, Movies, Lightweight Boxing, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Dance
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