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This week we've a modern wine mystery with Benjamin Wallace author of The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine. Jane and Michael Stern are noshing donuts at Round Rock Donuts in Round Rock, TX, Sally Schneider author of The Improvisational Cook introduces us to the allure of Orange Flower Water, and David Rosengarten, the man behind the opinionated Rosengarten Report talks about how gazpacho is made on its home turf of Spain.

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Gazpacho in a Pitcher

This is the real thing, straight from Spain and translated for us by the ever-diligent David Rosengarten. For the best results, puree the vegetables in a Vita-Mix and strain through an Anolon cone strainer. If a Vita-Mix and Anolon strainer are not in your cupboard, it is delicious simply whirred in a food processor or blender. Get the full recipe.

Orange Flower Water Cake

Use this Orange Flower Cake as a blueprint for other citrus cakes. Serve it plain, with a dusting if confectioners' sugar, or poke the top with holes and saturate it with a tart glaze as follows. Get the full recipe.

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Jane and Michael Stern: Round Rock Donuts, Austin, TX.

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If you've made your way through the Austin, Texas airport, you've certainly been introduced to Round Rock Donuts. Well, according to Jane and Michael, its fine to pick them up as your heading out of Texas, but they are well worth a trip of their own to get them hot, at their source . Lightweight and gossamer, they melt in your mouth when they are still warm. The bakery also makes that Texas Hill Country specialty, kolaches. Don't miss the hot jalapeno cheese with sausage kolache, a perfect bite of spice with a warm sweet crust.

The bakery is about 30 minutes from downtown Austin.

Round Rock Donuts
106 W Liberty Street
Round Rock, TX 78664

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