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It was the worst scandal since Juan Williams blew it for NPR.
Public support was non-existant, and the headlines were thinly veiled attempts at bad cooking humor.
The headline in the Life section of USA Today read “Move Over Martha: Another Cook at the Courthouse.”
In the Cooking With the Times section of the NY Times, the editor let “The Rumball Rumble” go to print.
It wasn’t every day that a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated made it in the Board of Education’s lunchroom menu rotation. Unfortunately for Christopher Kimball, the vodka pie crusts were a big hit at P.S. 102.