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Malcolm Bedell

My first memories of cooking start in Maine at six years old, when I wore a yellow rainslicker to avoid getting spattered by the bacon I was frying in a skillet. My interest in both Mexican cooking and recreating classic New England dishes from scratch developed while living in Mexico, on a steady diet of pork and habanero peppers. You can see more of my writing and photography online on Serious Eats, the Huffington Post, BlogHer, and Foodista, as well as in print for Downeast, Indulge, and Cigar Snob magazines.

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8 Cheeseburger Recipes to Make this Memorial Day

by Malcolm Bedell May 23, 2013

There’s not much that I love in the world more than a good burger. But let’s do the math, here. A three day weekend in honor of Memorial Day, times three meals a day, equals…well, I don’t know what it equals. But if you mack burgers on Memorial Day weekend the way we mack burgers [...]

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Classics: Grandmother Muskie’s Polish Meatloaf

by Malcolm Bedell May 21, 2013

Let’s get something sorted out right off the bat: Grandmother Muskie, she of “Polish Meatloaf” fame, isn’t my grandmother. She’s Jane G. Muskie (Mrs. Edmund S.)’s grandmother, presumably, who submitted her family meatloaf recipe to the Portland, Maine Junior league for inclusion in their cookbook, “RSVP: An Invitation to Maine Cooking,” way back in 1982. [...]

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Jalapeno Kettle Chips and Fiesta Chicken Salad, a Perfect Picnic Pairing (Plus Giveaway!)

by Malcolm Bedell May 20, 2013

There are kettle chips and then, there are Kettle Brand Chips. I don’t even care about potato chips, and I like these. They have character and quality, not to mention serious crunch. And now I can find them in a bunch of different flavors that are all awesome and addictive. For over thirty years, Kettle [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Eric MacLaren (Clan MacLaren)

by Malcolm Bedell May 14, 2013

Today’s sandwich is the “Eric MacLaren” from Clan MacLaren in Rockland. It combines salami, provolone, green pepper, tomato, onion, black olives, pickles, and olive oil on a sub roll. Location: 395 Main Street, Rockland Price:$8.25 Notes: Before we get going, the briefest confession: In the four days since I have discovered Clan MacLaren (and by [...]

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8 Sugar-Packed Cakes for When You Need to Eat Your Feelings

by Malcolm Bedell May 8, 2013

We’ve all been guilty of it, at one time or another. A piece of bad news comes in: A stubbed toe causes your big toenail to fall off, say, or maybe the house you bought next to the electric substation has given you brain termites. No matter the case, I think we can all agree [...]

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Chipotle Flank Steak Tacos with Salsa Verde

by Malcolm Bedell May 6, 2013

If you measure a recipe only in terms of how great the reward is for how little effort, that would make this one of the best taco recipes on our site. It’s proof that you don’t need a billion ingredients or a whole day’s worth of cooking time in order to make some authentic, taqueria-style [...]

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On the Rocks: The Mint Julep

by Malcolm Bedell May 3, 2013

A mint julep is made with just four ingredients: Water, sugar, mint, and bourbon. Because of the way the mint leaves are bruised or muddled, releasing their oils into the mixture, you can think of a mint julep almost as a sort of mojito, with a little less Cuban ayeayeaye and a heckuva lot more [...]

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8 Recipes to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo

by Malcolm Bedell May 1, 2013

Don’t want to spend another Cinco de Mayo watching amateur drunks spew blue curacao margarita-tinted chunks all over the talavera-tiled floor of your local bottomless guacamole joint? Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style this year by whipping up a few Mexican classics at home, where at least if you drink too many Coronas and fall [...]

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Bodum BISTRO Santoku Knife and Mixing Bowl GIVEAWAY!

by Malcolm Bedell April 16, 2013

As we’ve mentioned on the site before, we don’t have a ton of fancy cooking tools. We seem to have about 60 wooden spoons, some scratched up skillets from T.J. Maxx that at some point purportedly had nonstick properties but are now just slowly poisoning us with flecks of peeling Teflon coating, and a set [...]

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Indonesian Lamb Rendang

by Malcolm Bedell April 15, 2013

Rendang must be in my bloodstream, I think, a part of some core neural bit of circuitry that was formed when my parents took me to live in Singapore as a baby. While my parents left me outside to lounge in the tropical heat with my hired Amah, she must have been secretly spoon-feeding me [...]

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