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If we're paying attention, every venture into the kitchen is an opportunity for us to learn and improve.
A few weeks ago, a friend asked if I had a chilled cucumber soup recipe that I could share. It was funny that she would ask just then, because I'd been craving that very thing for several days. And as it happened, there was a recipe for it in my book Essentials of Southern Cooking. I sent it along to her, then toddled off to the store to buy the ingredients for a batch of my own.
But while I was making it, I found myself dissatisfied with that recipe as it was published. Read More