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Making restaurant recipes at home
If you love the idea of re-creating a great restaurant dish at home, you might want to check out “Impress for Less!” (Wiley, $18.95), a new cookbook by Hope Fox.
Fox has gathered 100 recipes from well-known restaurants around the country, including eight from Chicago. We haven’t yet tried any of the dishes, but look forward to Arun’s pad Thai, Everest’s sauteed chicken breast ratatouille and Topolobampo’s Caesar salad.
Fox’s claim is that these are recipes you really can make at home. She writes that the recipes are “adapted with shortcuts, easy-to-find ingredient substitutions, and helpful hints that deliver delicious results without compromising the integrity of the recipe.” Look for the book in major bookstores and at Amazon.com.
— Carol Mighton Haddix
How safe is your kitchen?
Do you wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after handling raw foods?
A session at the Institute of Food Technologists meeting recently at McCormick Place revealed that consumers know, but don’t always practice, proper food safety procedure. Seventy-four percent of those surveyed knew that they should wash their hands before and after handling raw food, but just 53 percent admitted doing so. And just 49 percent said they wash fresh fruits and vegetables, although 71 percent knew they should.For more of RTI International’s advice in the food-safety campaign, visit fightbac.org.
— Robin Mather Jenkins
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