Make your own mayo

I’m on the warpath against high fructose corn syrup. In a recent ingredient-reading flurry, I discovered that two of the condiments I was using on sandwiches had HFC in them: sweet pickle relish and mayonnaise. Store bought relish and pickles are easy to replace—I now buy them at the local farmer’s market. I pay more,…

“The Good Cook” reviewed

I can’t say enough good things about “The Good Cook” by Anne Willan. It is, in a word, wonderful. Here’s the Amazon description: A veteran cooking teacher and cookbook author offers a complete set of recipes useful for both novice and veteran chefs, and even more importantly, an important primer on the skills every chef…