I really miss working with all the creative people there, but I just realized after six years of being there I needed to move on and explore my own interests. There wasn't anything except the normal office politics, and every corporation has that.

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I love Sara Moulton. I love her style of teaching and cooking.

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We were there for the press conference. For a while, she was on house arrest, so she invited every department up to her farm in Bedford for dinner once a week. One night, the chef of Le Cirque restaurant was cooking for us, and that was really great. Her house was still being furnished, so here we were sitting in this unfurnished room with Martha.

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This is why you tie a roast together, to create uniform cooking. Or why you tuck in the legs of the chicken, so they're not sticking out and getting burned.

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If you don't have a rack, the meat will still cook beautifully, but it will end up cooking and steaming in its own juices, which would be steaming.

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