"A cookbook called 'Salsa' by Reed Hearon, a former chef at Coyote Cafe in Santa Fe, N.M., and now the chef at Lulu in San Francisco, was just published by Chronicle Books ($12.95). Another called 'Salsa,' by P. J. Birosik, the food editor of The Sedona (Ariz.) Red Rock News, will be released by Collier Books ($13) next month. 'Salsas, Sambals, Chutneys and Chow-Chows,' by Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby (Morrow, $20), is just out."
"Those who visit Jake and Earl's might ask where the name comes from. Mr. Schlesinger wanted to call it Jake's Dixie Barbecue because 'Jake is what older people in the South call young boys and it's my dog's name.' Ms. Wheaton wanted to name it for her father, Earl, a surgeon in New Jersey. They compromised."
"After all, everybody knows what ketchup is — it's that sweet-sour tomato sauce. Like fish sauce in Southeast Asia, this tomato condiment is fixed so firmly in the American culinary vernacular that it is often set on the table unbidden, with the unspoken assumption that it will be needed at some point in every meal."
"There is a lot of good meat out there, and there are lot of neat, fun, and tasty ways to cook it. So, walking up to the meat counter should be an occasion for excitement. But even for an experienced cook, it can often be a prelude to bewilderment instead."
"Early Americans also seem to have enjoyed all kinds of greens. Thomas Jefferson mentions, for instance, that the common markets of his day could supply the cook not only with a variety of lettuce but also endive, sorrel, corn salad (mâche), and cress."
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