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For thick pieces, Purviance advises browning over direct heat, then moving the meat to an area of indirect heat where there is no flame under the meat to finish cooking.
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Chicken and steak usually don't stick as much as fish, but Purviance still recommends cooking them a little longer on the first side than the second.
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Several factors explain why men who may recoil from indoor kitchens feel confident cooking on a grill, says Purviance: It's easy, there's little clean-up and there's a fun factor.
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We're tapping into generations and generations of men and women who have cooked around the fire pit, first purely for survival,'' says Purviance he pronounces it purrVYance, whose Weber's Time to Grill is just out.
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How to keep fish fillets from sticking to the grill: Brush the fillets first with oil and then lay them on a hot, clean grill grate over direct high heat, not low or medium heat, Purviance advises.
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“Culinary details matter,” author Purviance tells us in the introduction.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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“Culinary details matter,” author Purviance tells us in the introduction.
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Someone—perhaps the neighbor woman Mrs. Purviance, who habitually performed such menial services for the incapacitated tenant—had evidently been enlisted to dispose of the more objectionable detritus.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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As a result, he has been compelled, for many years, to rely on the good offices of Mrs. Purviance, who—for the mere pittance he is able to pay her—comes by each day around noontime to attend to certain of his most basic needs.
Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999
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"They're dying like rats in their homes; bodies are washing around the streets and there's no relief in sight," Purviance said.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado Logan Marshall
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