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“Did you know chemo can damage your taste buds? That was news to me. Cancer is like an IRS audit, or the music of Ted Nugent—we all have some baseline awareness of it, but if we’re lucky, we never have to learn the particulars.”

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Tastes Like Cancer

(And potato salad.)

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Doug Messel @dougmessel.com · Jul 21

Here’s @lizcookkc.bsky.social from the top rope

While they're busy destroying your taste buds, chemo drugs can also create tastes of their own.
Many people receiving chemo via IV report tasting something metallic or bitter while the drugs are seeping into their bloodstreams. I experienced a mild version of this phenomenon a few years ago when I did a couple recreational IVs for a magazine assignment. Almost as soon as the dubious fluids began seeping into my arm, I tasted the unmist able Fruit Metal of a Flintstones vitamin. Parts of our body are connected in unpredictable, unsettling ways. (This is true for the human organism, but also for human organization. We're chained together in ways we often don't understand, or particularly like)

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Jul 10

Please make my recipe for PARTY CORN.

Serious Eats @serious-eats.bsky.social · Jul 9

This creamed corn recipe puts real cream back in the spotlight, blending sweet summer corn with heavy cream, sour cream, red bell pepper—and a nod to Midwestern party dip—for a festive, velvety side dish.

Creamed Corn Deserves Better. This Recipe Proves It.

This creamed corn recipe puts real cream back in the spotlight, blending sweet summer corn with heavy cream, sour cream, red bell pepper—and a nod to Midwestern party dip—for a festive, velvety side dish.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Jun 25

Cleaning up the dream journal.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 21

Also, ICYMI: I still think you should make this cheesy corn.

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Kansas City-Style Cheesy Corn

This recipe is Kansas City-style cheesy corn at its best: a side dish that balances the flavors of fresh sweet corn and salty smoked ham in a cheddar-heavy cheese sauce that's as sharp as it is creamy...

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 21

4. The Liz Cookies. This is cookie maximalism bordering on parody: brown butter, toasted sugar, spelt, miso, pecan, butterscotch, sea salt.

I did not put gochujang in them, so I deserve a recipe development pass.

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These Butterscotch-Pecan Cookies Are Irresistible, Thanks to This Unexpected Ingredient

These rich, chewy butterscotch-pecan cookies have complex caramel notes and micro-pockets of savoriness and sweetness in each bite.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 21

3. Iowa Taco Pizza. Anyone who can’t appreciate crushed Doritos, cumin-scented cheddar jack, and homemade taco sauce drizzled liberally over a sturdy pie has a withered soul.

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This Midwestern Taco Pizza Is Maximalist in All the Right Ways

The gold standard for Iowa taco pizza is a crispy, chewy crust with the nostalgic toppings of a school cafeteria taco: a refried bean base, heavily seasoned ground beef, shredded iceberg lettuce that ...

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 21

2. Midwestern Chicken and Noodles. Can’t decide between pasta and potatoes? In the Midwest, you don’t have to. This is still my go-to comfort meal when I’ve had a bad day.

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This Midwestern Chicken and Noodles Is Way More Satisfying Than Soup

Don’t confuse Midwestern chicken and noodles with soup. This dish features juicy hunks of chicken in a roux-thickened gravy with chewy, homemade egg noodles, all served over fluffy mashed potatoes.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 21

Have put out a bunch of recipes for Serious Eats lately, and I think you should make them!

1. Kansas City Steak Soup. Born in one KC steakhouse, diffused to many others, this is functionally a drunken, pinkies-up vegetable beef soup.

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Vegetable-Beef Soup With a Top Hat and a Wink

This Kansas City steak soup is teeming with browned morsels of steak, a glossy and tangy roux-thickened broth, and a simple medley of fresh vegetables. Its savory kick comes from a few somewhat surpri...

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 3

“way better than it had any right to be” is what I want as my epitaph.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 3

Stacy, I am both honored and jealous.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · May 3

Are we on the cusp of Taco Pizza Summer? Many people are asking.

ybbats 🦇💀🎃 @scribblymoth.bsky.social · May 3

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Shoutout to @lizcookkc.bsky.social for the recipe (though we did not make our own crust and forgot the olives😩)

This Midwestern Taco Pizza Is Maximalist in All the Right Ways

The gold standard for Iowa taco pizza is a crispy, chewy crust with the nostalgic toppings of a school cafeteria taco: a refried bean base, heavily seasoned ground beef, shredded iceberg lettuce that ...

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Apr 29

The era of self-serious sex symbols trying to min-max dinner is over. Welcome to the era of Big Goons Making Goon Food.

New Haterade:

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Cooking with Dom DeLuise

The dream of the ‘90s is alive and portly

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Ami @amidanruo.bsky.social · Apr 28

I just think @lizcookkc.bsky.social is cool :) www.seriouseats.com/iowa-taco-pi...

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Apr 28

What I am learning from this map is that I should have cooked the lettuce.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Apr 11

Chasing the vibes of the white Milwaukee dad pushing his son in a running stroller while performing a faithful but vigorous rendition of “Smack That” by Akon.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Mar 31

Ran into Bob Dylan’s local catering team at a bar in Topeka last night and can confirm he ate chili and cinnamon rolls before the show. Midwest King.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Mar 30

“Wonderful.” The lemon is puking out his internal organs and you call it wonderful.

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Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Mar 24

At least Kim Reynolds is having a bad night, too.

Liz Cook @lizcookkc.bsky.social · Mar 7

Thrilled to see Lady Gaga has finally released a song about Lucas, KS.

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