This photo is unrelated to the post, but I used Martha Stewart's recipe to make what came out to be the greatest Mac and Cheese in the history of the world.
Sadly, Mark Bittman - the man responsible for like half of my theories on food and cooking and kitchens - is stopping his famous column, The Minimalist, so he can focus on more important food-related issues. Apparently, there's a farming crisis in this country or something. I mean, I'm from the Garden State, which is totally known for still having all those farms and gardens up and down the New Jersey Turnpike, so I have no clue what Bittman's talking about.
But seriously, to honour Bittman, I'm posting below two great links. One is his 25 personal favourite columns, and the other is a link to every Minimalist article that's ever been written.
BITTMAN'S PERSONAL 25 FAVES
EVERY MINIMALIST COLUMN IN THE HISTORY OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
What makes Bittman so great is he knows when to care about frills and when not to. All you people who bitch about small kitchens, or not having that fancy Kitchen-Aid mixer, or the fact that it's too time consuming to make stock for soup, (just make a bunch of it and FREEZE it you idiot) he lets you know that you should just shut your little bitchy mouth and start cooking. I appreciate that. My kitchen's so small that my refrigerator doesn't even fit in it, and all my utensils are hanging up on my wall to save space. Does that stop me? No. And you know what, I owe a lot of it to Bittman, and his time-saving, space-saving ways. And don't forget his book How to Cook Everything, which my sister Melissa bought me for Christmas five years back and which I consult religiously ALL THE TIME. The iPhone App for the book is even better. Try it out. It's worth the whatever the hell it costs. I'd die for Mark Bittman. Possibly.
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