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Good Question: Help! How Do I Caramelize Sugar With a Kitchen Torch?

Here's a question from reader Donna. She is just learning to use a kitchen torch to caramelize sugar, and it's not going well. She writes: I have a kitchen torch and CANNOT burn the sugar. I tried b...

The Celluloid Pantry: Crème Brûlée and Amélie (France, 2001)

[This week The Celluloid Pantry goes on location to Paris. Next week: Rome.] Raspberries worn on the fingers like thimbles; a hand plunged deep into a cool sack of grain; the crack of a spoon against...