In the now defunct Gourmet magazine, the one sane cooking note was the fiction writer Laurie Colwin, whose column Home Cooking, involved her daughter and her own home recipes. When I read about Alder chopping with his knife on his cutting board, and Stacey busy with hers, I thought of her in Colwin's cooking tradition, one that uses the very best teaching technique: the role model. Colwin was a role model for me, as were my mother and my grandmother, and now I add Stacey Bloomfield. I'm trying the sauce!
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