Stephanie Pierson
By Stephanie Pierson
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Food Avoid Trump Talk At Holiday Table With 25 Things To Debate About Brisket
This High Holiday season more than most, the unspoken agreement among many families to avoid potentially explosive topics such as politics seems more sound than ever. So what’s a family to talk about? The food, of course. And since so many families will be sitting down to a dinner with brisket as its centerpiece, we…
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Recipes The 3 Easiest Brisket Recipes Ever
This year, just to keep us on our toes, Rosh Hashanah plunks itself down right in the middle of the week. But that should in no way deter the busy brisket maker! Having authored “The Brisket Book: A Love Story With Recipes,” I know how ridiculously easy it can be to make a perfectly perfect…
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Recipes My Former Best Friend’s Ex-Mother-in-Law’s Brisket
I used to be embarrassed that this was my brisket recipe. It’s the first I ever cooked. It is never going to be the sophisticated brisket a superstar chef would brag about (Heinz chili sauce? Lipton Onion Soup Mix?) but it is insanely good: achingly tender, bathed in a sweet, rich, thick tomato-y sauce. Almost…
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Food Send Us Your Brisket Photos And Stories!
Hello Fellow Brisketeers! This year, we are celebrating the traditional Passover brisket in a new way. How? Brisket Aftermath. It’s all about you! Send us a picture of your dining table, after dinner. What does your brisket platter look like? Is there anything left? Was the brisket the first thing to go? (Let’s be honest….
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Food Brisket’s Mini Modern Side
As the author of “The Brisket Book: A Love Story With Recipes,” I was anointed “The Brisket Queen” on Twitter by Julia Moskin of The New York Times. A passionate brisket cook, eater and chronicler, and a keen observer of the brisket zeitgeist, I need no crystal ball to predict brisket’s future: Brisket is going…
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Food 14 Brisket Quotations From a Braised-Meat Maven
Thinkstock Yes, it is meltingly tender, a hallowed tradition, the ultimate comfort food, the meat that people who don’t eat meat do eat. (Before I wrote “The Brisket Book,” I thought that was a little odd too.) And brisket — multitasker extraordinaire — is not only delicious, it is also deliciously quotable. Observations, opinions, advice,…
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Recipes I’ve Taken Liberties With Roberta Greenberg’s Brisket
Photograph by Hathaway_M; Flickr Out of all the recipes in my cookbook, “The Brisket Book. A Love Story With Recipes” (Andrews McMeel), only one came with a blessing. It is the Temple Emanu-El Brisket from home cook Roberta Greenberg, the longtime assistant to the rabbis at this well-known New York synagogue. I found Ms. Greenberg’s…
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Recipes Recipe Redux: Temple Emanu-El Brisket 6.0
You’re reading the recipe below right — it’s full of strikeouts and add-ins that match the red-pen amendments the author made to the recipe in her own cookbook (above). After making the original at least 20 times, she feels she’s improved on what was already near-perfection. Photograph by Stephanie Pierson Serves 8 to 10 One…
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