Top Ten New Joys in an Old Kitchen

Salt Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, by Samin Nosrat
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About Dinner, by Molly Stevens
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Those incredibly tasty, probably calorie-free brown-butter hazelnut shortbread cookies
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The mustard-seed pickled golden raisin chutney that is as good as candy and I mean it
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The marmalade cranberry raisin chutney (have raisins become a theme?)
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The Chobani raspberry yogurt for breakfast (I’m giving oatmeal a long-deserved break)
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The email that contained my mother’s old favorite recipes, sent to me by sister-in-law just two days ago, years after they were created
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The new rolling kitchen cart that allows me to pretend that I have a big kitchen, that I am graceful, that I can one day be gracious
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The incredible power of my first-ever hand-held mixer; now I know what it means when they say “beat until light and fluffy”
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The time I turned around in church and invited new friends to join us for Thanksgiving