A Couple Cooks

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About A Couple Cooks For the last few years, we have been pursuing a better way of eating. While we haven’t quite mastered the art of cooking, we’ve learned a lot and have a desire to share! It all began when we bought a house and needed something to feed our dinner guests. We started to immerse ourselves in the learning process, purusing DVDs from Julia Child to Alton Brown, hundreds of library-loaned cookbooks, and numerous food blogs. And we practiced. Our journey hasn’t just been on technique. Inspired by Michael Pollan’s mantra “Eat real food, not too much, mostly plants” and Mark Bittman’s book Food Matters, we’ve drastically limited meat in our diet. We have also cut out almost all processed and prepackaged food from our grocery trips, preferring to make most things from scratch. The food we cook reflects the way we choose to eat (though we can’t promise not to make an exception now and then!). We adapt most recipes to fit our own taste and style. On the whole, we try to avoid complicated r

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