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Dorie Greenspan is a renowned author whose works span a variety of genres, including autobiography, fiction, and children's literature. Her writing style is highly appreciated by readers, and her books have won numerous literary awards.

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All Want Ifs Knows Littles Recipes Use Brown Cooks Hands Kitchen

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“Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.”

Ifs Stills Hands Secret Teacher Students Mom Pages Smart Originals Shoes Stores Cooks Something New Adam Beginners Stoves Charmed Inquisitive Handbags

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“I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.”

Ifs Want Giving Feels Should Littles Use Past Color Should Have Skins Fruit Guides Separation Chiefs Prime Avocados

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“Meyer lemons are a splurge, but they're so wonderful. You could make a Meyer lemon curd or a jam. You could make a salad with slices of Meyer lemon. You could make a Meyer lemon tart and top the tart with candied slices of the lemons. You could use the lemons in a salsa to go over grilled fish or in a ceviche.”

Use Wonderful Fishes Jam Salad Lemons Salsa Tarts

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“Whenever you brown butter, some of it is lost - water evaporates, milk solids fall to the bottom of the pan, that kind of thing. It's possible that in browning the butter you ended up making the dough with too little butter.”

Kind Littles Fall Lost Water Bottom Brown Milk Dough

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“Anything you make in a 'normal' sized loaf pan can be made in the longer pan - you just have to increase the recipe proportionately.”

Made Normal Increase Recipes

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“You can use melted butter instead of oil, but your cake may be a little denser.”

May Littles Use Oil Cake Using Me

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“Sometimes I think there are devils at work in the kitchen - recipes that are always perfect sometimes come out less than perfect and I can't figure out why.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Perfect Figures Devil Kitchen Recipes

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“When I'm developing a recipe with brown butter - I know how much butter I want in the end and I so I start with more butter than I'll need.”

Knows Want Needs Ends Know How Developing Brown Recipes

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“The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.”

Thinking World Opportunity These Days Crowded

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“There are so many reasons to cook and bake. Yes, good food is certainly one of them, but so is the sense of satisfaction you get when you make something with your own hands, when you know that you can take care of yourself and feed yourself well and when you know that you can take care of and feed others.”

Knows Wells Reason Hands Care Satisfaction Take Care Cooks Good Food Take Care Of Yourself

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“I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.”

People Ifs Knows Want Age Method Kitchen

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“Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.”

Want Able Pleasure Share Cooking Baking

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“I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.”

Should Sometimes Eggs Sugar Pale Beaten Lemons

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“Do the work you are most proud of”

Proud

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“Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable.”

People Real Complicated Tricky Unreliable

Book:Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere

Source: Baking Chez Moi: Recipes from My Paris Home to Your Home Anywhere

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