We’ve all heard of urban legends, those plausible sounding but false stories that circulate so widely on email and social media, such as the old lady who microwaved her cat or the Nieman-Marcus $250 cookie recipe. There are several web sites, such as Snopes, devoted to researching and exposing these fake stories (and verifying those that are true). The same sort of thing happens in the world of food and cooking–kitchen myths–and this blog is my answer.
