This post was originally published as a column in the Bloomington Herald Times on May 31, 2006 There is nothing like cooking with professionals to instill a little humility in the amateur chef. Since I’ve been writing this food column, nearly four years now, I have found myself in the kitchen with the experts several…

This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on May 17, 2006Back before the advent of all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets (yes, hard to believe there was once a time when proprietors of a cuisine famous for fast, healthy, last minute cooking didn’t let food sit around forever on steam tables), eggrolls were truly a splendid…

This post originally appeared in the Bloomington Herald Times on May 3, 2006 Benjamin Franklin had something to say about asparagus, as he did about so many things: “A few stems of Asparagus eaten, shall give our Urine a Disagreeable Odour,” he wrote in 1781, in a discourse on ways to make noxious bodily discharges…