August 14, 2010

What does a chef consider the most important tool in the kitchen? Chef and writer Daniel Patterson has a surprising answer for all of those who love to cook. He is the author of Aroma. Jane and Michael Stern are looking at the phenomenon of the "slider" and Elizabeth Karmel author of Soaked, Slathered and Seasonings, fills us in on the latest developments in outdoor grilling.

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This Week's Recipes

A Marinade Guide

Chipotle Chicken Thighs

Pete's Favorite Summer Barbecue Wet Rub

Summer Greens and Peach Salad

Iced Summer Peaches

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Food Idioms from around the world



I'm not hanging noodles on your ears!
I'm not pulling your leg — Russian

To give it to someone with cheese
to pull your leg — Spanish

To give papaya
to pull someone's leg — Spanish, Colombia

I'll boil tea with my navel
that's laughable, you're kidding — Japanese

To live like a maggot in bacon
live in luxury, live the life of Riley — German

To fry a bologna sausage
to give special treatment — German

To have three foot long spittle
to yearn for something — Chinese

Brew the dirt from someone's
fingernails and drink it
learn a bitter lesson — Japanese

To drown the mouse: hair of the dog
stave off a hangover — Spanish

The one of shame
the last piece of food on a plate that no one dares take — Spanish

To undo twists in the entrails
to eat one's fill after starving — Hindi

We'll take salt with you
acceptance of invitation to share a meal — Arabic

Meet with bread and salt
warm welcome — Russian

To fix the cake
to make amends, patch things up — South America

To eat bad-smelling rice
to be in jail — Japanese

To be the cheese on pasta
to be perfect — Italian

To put butter in the spinach
to improve one's living — French

To have butter, money from butter,
and the woman who made it
to have it all — French

To have the face of bad milk
to look like one is in a bad mood — Spanish

Look for hairs inside an egg
nitpick — Italian

He should grow like an onion
with his head in the ground - mild insult — Yiddish

Onions should grow from your navel
an insult — Yiddish

Think one is the last suck on the mango
think highly of oneself — South America

Tomatoes have faded
love has gone — Russian

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