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Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty

Who's writing headlines at the New York Times this week? Today's food section has a cooking column with the provocative head Rice, Lies and Videotape: A Celebration of Darkness. Good lord, people. Not only is it not clever to expand any old series of words that contains the word "lies" (this column's lead strains to make the point that there's a lot of "lies" about cooking rice) into a tired reference to an '80s movie starring James Spader, the recipes are not intended to celebrate darkness. Oh, wait, maybe they are, but barely. The idea is to cook the rice so that a layer of it sticks to the pot. "Yes, the rice is made to brown on the bottom on purpose," the writer tells us, patronizingly.

Anyway, I love the crusty rice that you get in a Korean hot pot, and I tried one of the recipes. My version did end up celebrating darkness, as the sun-dried tomatoes I included went black and charred. Not a success. I suspect that in order for these to work, you really need the stone hot pot.

11:04 p.m. - 2006-01-11

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