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T. Susan Chang

T. Susan Chang regularly reviews cookbooks for NPR.org and contributes to the NPR's Kitchen Window series.

For The Boston Globe and the Eat Your Books, a cookbook indexing website, Chang also reviews cookbooks. Her first book, A Spoonful of Promises: Recipes and Stories from a Well-Tempered Table will be released in fall 2011 by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot.

Chang's blog, Cookbooks for Dinner, features her writings on cookbooks and recipes.

Best Books Of 2012

8:08 am

Mon December 24, 2012

Recipe Rebellion: A Year Of Contrarian Cookbooks

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By T. Susan Chang

Originally published on Tue December 25, 2012 1:20 pm

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"Just throw the whole lemon in the food processor for lemon bars."
"Don't just soak your dried beans — brine them!"
"You don't need a whole day (or two) to make a good sauce."

Some of the things this year's cookbooks said to me as I tested them were downright contrarian. But that's the brilliant thing about cooking in a global, crowdsourced, Web-fueled world: People no longer cook according to some received wisdom handed down by a guy in a white toque. They figure it out as they go along, and if they stumble on a shortcut, it's blogged and shared in no time flat.

12:26 am

Wed October 31, 2012

The Hard-Boiled Truth About Egg Soups

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Get recipes for Stracciatella, Not My Mother's Egg Drop Soup and Double Lemon Avgolemono Soup.

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By T. Susan Chang

Originally published on Wed November 21, 2012 6:38 am

The chicks arrived five months ago — eight gray, blond, black and tawny puffballs no bigger than the eggs they'd been hatched from a day earlier. They had a slavishly devoted audience within minutes and names within 24 hours. Every couple of weeks they doubled in size, and over the summer they ballooned from 2 ounces to 7 pounds as we furiously worked to complete their permanent coop.

8:59 am

Fri May 25, 2012

Stand Back When Snapping Turtles Crop Up In The Garden

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The best thing to do when this gal shows up in your garden is to let her be

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You can eat the eggs, or call a wildlife rescue team to incubate them properly

By T. Susan Chang

Originally published on Fri May 25, 2012 2:09 pm

Late spring in a New England vegetable garden is usually a time for the last asparagus, the crisp lettuce and arugula, the first pea shoots, and the first sprouting of warm-weather crops like peppers and zucchini. What you don't expect to see planted in your beds are snapping turtles. But that's just what turned up in mine twice this week.

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