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Creating recipes with David Tanis in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — David Tanis has an armchair approach to talking about cooking that allows you to feel as though your best friend were slicing vegetables and chopping herbs right next to you. Recently, he did just that with me, first at the Hollywood Farmers Market to shop for produce and then back at The Times' new test kitchen, where he created three dishes with what he found at the market, ...

LOS ANGELES — David Tanis has an armchair approach to talking about cooking that allows you to feel as though your best friend were slicing vegetables and chopping herbs right next to you.

Recently, he did just that with me, first at the Hollywood Farmers Market to shop for produce and then back at The Times' new test kitchen, where he created three dishes with what he found at the market, each emblematic of his simple, reverent style of cooking.

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