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The Review: Whist at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica
Restaurant CriticWhist, the restaurant in Santa Monica's excruciatingly trendy Viceroy Hotel, opened with a bang in 2002. That was when Tim Goodell (Aubergine, Red Pearl) was doing the food, and it was startlingly good for a hotel restaurant. I remember pork belly...Tags: Mushrooms, Salads, Pies and Tarts, Arugula, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Recipe: Chestnut-sage stuffing
Total time: 30 minutes plus cooking time, which will depend on whether it's cooked in the turkey or separately
Servings: Enough for a 16-pound turkey (7 cups)
2 pounds chestnuts
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup chopped onion
2 cups chopped celery,...Tags: Cornbread, Turkey, Salt, Dressing and Stuffing, Sausages
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Recipe: Brussels sprouts with bacon and chestnuts
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Servings: 6
Note: From Russ Parsons
1/2 pound chestnuts
1 pound Brussels sprouts
2 slices thick-cut bacon
1 shallot, minced
3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
Salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1. Roast the chestnuts:...Tags: Shallots, Bacon, Salt, Black Pepper
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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: Shallots, Salt, Butter
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Gentle Feast
For so many years, Ive 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: Cinnamon, Turkey, Shallots, Ross Bagdasarian, Salt
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Count on Lucques to get it right
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: Walnuts, Doughnuts, Steaks, Dining and Drinking, Carrots
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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: Turkey, Bacon, Salt, Pecans, Pies and Tarts
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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... -
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: Walnuts, Forestry and Timber, Natural Resources, Death, Forests
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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: Mustard, Squash, Photography, Death, Potatoes
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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, Istanbul (Turkey), Turkey, Politics, Armed Forces
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