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10/06/11 • MOROCCAN CHICKEN From the July, 2007 Cooks Illustrated Here in the northeast we’ve been mired in what meteorologists like to call “a trough of low pressure.” For those of us who live here that simply means it’s been raining, off and on, for weeks. If you haven’t been drenched you’re one of the few. Last Thursday, fed up with hauling my umbrella and raincoat around, I decided to give them the day off, and s

07/21/11 • SMOKIN’ FRIED CHICKEN From the June/July, 2011 Fine Cooking (click here to view the recipe) One of my favorite food memories from childhood was when my mother would cook up a batch of her amazing fried chicken. Back then, with a fulltime job and three kids to feed, she’d maximize her efforts by frying enough chicken parts to last the week — something which typically meant her having to stand at the s

06/14/11 • ROAST CHICKEN DINNER From the Oct., 2005 Gourmet (click here to view the recipe) When it was announced a few years back that Gourmet was ceasing publication, I, along with many other food lovers, treated the news like there’d been a death in the family. That may seem like an over-reaction to the closing of a business I had no obvious connection to, but though I’d never worked for the magazine nor been clos