Deborah Pankey
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Prasino raises the bar on mall food with organic fareNov 19, 2013 5:00 am - When you hear “mall food,” I bet visions of pizza slices sitting under heat lamps, sugar-thick smoothies and stir-fried vegetables of uncertain freshness come to mind. A...
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From the Food Editor: Welcoming baking season with browniesNov 12, 2013 5:00 am - The crisp autumn air shaking leaves from the trees signals the beginning of a new season for me. Baking season ... that time of year when I happily turn my attention fro...
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Daily Herald columnist pens book about food's role in diabetesNov 06, 2013 4:45 am - Beans, kale, dark chocolate and barley. If you want to make food choices that will control diabetes, these “power foods” should be on the menu. That's just one of the th...
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Elgin's Dan Rich twists apples, chicken into winning plate at Cook of the Week Challenge finaleNov 06, 2013 4:00 am - After cooking with Twizzlers, Dan Rich figured nothing could throw him off his game. Turns out the Elgin man was right. When faced with skin-on chicken breasts, apples, ...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: Judges pick up the panOct 30, 2013 6:08 am - It’s second nature for cooks. We read someone’s recipe and the wheels in our minds start turning over ways to tweak this or add that. And of course it’s that way with ou...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: Final four count down to cook-offOct 30, 2013 6:00 am - Snickers bars and liverwurst? Blood oranges and eye of newt? I'm not telling what's in the mystery basket for tonight's Cook of the Week Challenge Final Four Cook-off, b...
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From the Food Editor: Last-minute Halloween treatOct 30, 2013 5:30 am - Curses. It happened again. Halloween sneaked up on me. I’ve spotted the giant bags of candy at the grocery store since August, but have ignored them saying to myself I s...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: Playing catch-up (ketchup?) with our 2012 crewOct 28, 2013 11:00 pm - In the year since Michael Pennisi was named 2012 Cook of the Year I've had the chance to work with him on a few projects. He represented the Daily Herald at a charity co...
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Judges like what they see with sardine, Twizzler recipesOct 23, 2013 6:04 am - Lori Motyka’s Sicilian Flatbread Pizza and Dan Rich’s appetizer extravaganza swayed the judges in the final Round 2 challenges. Here’s what they had to say about the rec...
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Cook of the Week Challenge: Motyka, Murphy, Rich, Wikrotek head to cook-offOct 23, 2013 6:00 am - They battled beet-stained hands, hot grills, canned sardines and Twizzlers, but those ingredients did not get the best of Lori Wiktorek, Christine Murphy, Lori Motyka an...