Teresa Taylor
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Teresa Taylor is an assistant features editor for The Post and Courier who oversees the Food, Home & Garden and Petc. sections. Her first love and primary responsibility is the food beat, which she took over in 2003 after more than 20 years at the newspaper in other editing positions. She writes stories for Wednesday's Food section and a recipe exchange column for home cooks called "Now We're Cooking," which appears in Sunday editions. Taylor joined the company in 1983 as a copy editor for The News and Courier, having previously worked for Gannett's Westchester-Rockland newspaper group in White Plains, N.Y. She became weekend editor in 1987, news editor of The Evening Post in 1990, and executive business editor of The Post and Courier in 1991.
Recent Stories
Thanksgiving visitors have sides, will travel
Turkey trivia is appropriate this week, courtesy of the University of Illinois Extension Service.
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Free-range grower returns to roots on family farm
Three degrees of separation. That's all it took, the temperature difference between 95 and 98, to doom half of Annie Keegan Filion's brood of 400 turkeys earlier this year. Turkey poults are extremely sensitive to warmth, and only 3 degrees cooler made them chilly despite the heat.
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Olives With Orange & Lemon
For the love of olives
I thank Nathalie Dupree for turning my taste buds on to a surprisingly good combo: olive and celery salad. Well, I'm raising the stakes, based on an accidental "discovery," the kind borne of a desperate what-can-I-take-for-lunch moment. There was celery in the crisper, spiced mari...
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Get salty with your turkey this season
A saltwater soak is all the rage for the Thanksgiving turkey.
From my personal experience, brining does make a difference in flavor and succulence. It may not be the only way, but it is a very good way.
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Some egg dishes with (or without) cheese
A reader has been looking for a scrambled egg recipe (to serve about 15 people) that can be held for at least 30 minutes before it will be eaten and not become watery. No cheese, too.
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Fulfilling dreams with cupcakes
Pecan pie cupcakes
Got a dream? Don't give up, even when the economy is a nightmare. I've never met Emma Klein, only spoken to her on the phone. But she has a vision, and I'm convinced she'll make it happen.
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Fast and fresh
Busy siblings offer new look at simple recipes for everyday cooks in their 'knockout' book
Since their first cookbook in 2006, both Lee brothers have gotten married, one is a new dad and they remain sought-after writers, so they "get" the too-busy-to-cook lament.
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Milky Way cakes out of this world
Lee Etta Messick can't find her recipe for Milky Way Cake -- haven't we all been through that? No more lost in space: Several readers located recipes. Milky Way is a senior citizen of American candy bars.
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Dutch's Portobello Mushroom Burger
Cowboy grub?
The '50s and '60s were the golden era of TV Westerns, the glorious days of "The Lone Ranger," "Rawhide," "Bonanza" and many more. I, like a gazillion other kids, dreamed of being a cowgirl, or cowboy, whatever.
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Savor Italy at opening for film fest
Food cinema is the point of this week's Taste of Italy Italian Film Festival, but good food to eat will play a supporting role on opening night.
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