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...regular guy, in other words, Batali can get pretty fussy. And he has a rather extravagant sense of the role cooking can play in our lives. In Holiday Food, he talks of his family's joy at coming together to chop and blanch and bake and consume. When he was a kid, he says, "any meals served at our house were mapped out at least a month in advance." To many home cooks who can barely heat up a pizza after a long day, Batali's heavenly kitchen may sound like hell...
...good news was that Americans, long accused of ushering in the culinary apocalypse with their love of supersizing and Shake 'n Bake, were watching TV about real food. But as the network focused on attracting noncooks and stoking its chefs' celebrity, it became harder and harder to find actual cooking on the network. There was Gordon Elliott, doing his version of Tom Green's ambush comedy on Door Knock Dinners; cute Brit Jamie Oliver having dinner with his girlfriend on The Naked Chef; and Jill Cordes and Marc Silverstein doing roving-food-reporter segments on The Best Of. When someone...
With his ear at the phone, North says, he later went on to bake jelly and cocoa rolls...
...help make that picture-perfect holiday happen, I volunteered this year to bake cinnamon buns for Christmas brunch. Since the only buns I've ever made are the ones that come in a pop-open can, I decided to log on to the Web for some fresh ideas...
...looks as if I won't be sleeping late on Christmas after all. Martha's elaborate recipe takes so much preparation, I'll have to get up early to bake--while the rest of my family gets to wake up to the smell of cinnamon...