Friday, January 13, 2006

Cheese Friday: It's good!

Inspired mac and cheese dishes push beyond the comfort zone
By CeCe Sullivan
Seattle Times Food staff


There are lots of reasons one could choose to eat macaroni and cheese tonight. For instance, you may feel happy and content. What better way to celebrate?

Or, you might feel sad and depressed. What better way to console yourself?

But perhaps the most pressing reason is that tomorrow, or the day after, you're beginning the post-holiday diet that was penciled onto your list of resolutions for the new year.

Loosing a few pounds was on my own list. But then "Macaroni & Cheese" by Marlena Spieler (Chronicle Books, $16.95) landed on my desk. One look at the cover photograph — a mound of golden, molten cheese enveloping small cylinders of pasta in a royal-blue bowl — and I was lost.

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