We were flipping through Dam Good Sweet, a new cookbook about New Orleans-style desserts, and stopped dead in our tracks when we saw this. So gorgeous! And a perfect alternative to pie for Thanksgivin...
This time of year sees perhaps more mixed dining than any other time of year — and by mixed, of course, we mean vegetarian-vegan-gluten-free-with-omnivore dining. Thanksgiving and holiday partie...
When books come home with me for review consideration, our daughter often is the first to crack the spine and peruse the photos for something that appeals. Recently when I brought home Peter Reinhart'...
About five years ago, filmmaker Douglas Gayeton began recording foodway traditions in the town of Pistoia, Italy for a project he was doing with PBS. While most Pistorians had never heard of Slow Foo...
Paging through Lidia Bastianich's new book, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes (Knopf), it's obvious that the notion of a locavore is not a trend but rather a given i...
If you think grits are, indeed, glorious, then this is a book for you. But even if you're not sold, hear us out. This book veers way off the breakfast path, with recipes for savory polenta main dishes...
Gesine Bullock-Prado, the sister of the famous actress Sandra Bullock, spent ten years in the belly of Hollywood, heading up her sister's production company before she chucked it all to move to Mont...
There was a time when "going vegan" seemed like condemning yourself to a diet of brown rice and textured vegetable protein - with carrot sticks for dessert. Vegan cooking has come a long way since the...
Portuguese food is a new interest for us. We have been increasingly fascinated by Portuguese wines, which much of the same character and value of Spanish wines, and so we've been also very interested ...
September was California wine month. My posts only covered a tiny fraction of the amazing and very different California wines available throughout the country, but today I want to share two great book...
It pays to leave cookbooks lying about when my mother comes to town. This week she surprised us with two great mid-week home-cooked meals. All I had to do was take the picture....
Wait, the bacon trend isn't over yet? Some think it never will be. Others, like Ari Weinzweig, never called it a trend and never will. I've shared pork product with this man and I can tell you he's a ...
I know home cooks will be making more cookies this year - for school parties, holiday gifts, homemade wedding favors and birthday parties. We're already seeing it in the dozens of questions that reade...
I love a good cocktail book that has photos in it, and I especially love cocktail books that combine recipes for wonderful snacks that can be served with them. Southern Cocktails: Dixie Drinks, Party ...
We all could learn a new thing or two about wine, myself included. This urge comes up for me in the summer, once my summer drinking habits have passed and I'm back to drinking more reds and generally ...
I've learned a lot of my small store of Asian cooking skills from Andrea Nguyen. Her first book, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen was award-winning and I don't doubt that her newest, Asian Dumplings (Ten S...
With Clean Food (Sterling Epicure), Terry Walters puts herself on the big green scene map. This is the latest in a string of books about eating well, close to the source, and harming the earth and bod...
If you're the type of cook who needs to know why onions make us cry and gets curious about the molecular structure of melting sugar, then this is definitely the book for you. It has become our #1 refe...
Earlier this summer, I spent a day in Florence with Judy Witts Francini, an American who moved to Italy in 1984, married an Italian, and stayed put. She leads tours, teaches hands-on cooking classes, ...
Last year Chip Brantley told me was writing a book about pluots. I know Chip through Cookthink, the really wonderful food and cooking website that he founded and runs. But I was a little dubious about...
When we first picked up this book by lawyer turned cake baker extraordinaire, Warren Brown, the title read like a cookbook for dummies. But once we opened its beautifully designed pages, it had us h...
In May I had lunch with wine author and writer Matt Skinner, who shot to fame as the new generation sommelier from Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen in London. Matt was in the US to promote his newly ...
Farm City is the account of Novella Carpenter's efforts to turn a vacant lot next to her apartment in Oakland into an urban farm. Determined to eat sustainable meat and produce, Novella recognizes tha...
Along with all those juicy, red strawberries and tart, crisp rhubarb stalks filling the markets right now, here's another welcome seasonal arrival: Food & Wine Magazine's annual cocktail guide. ...
I plan on doing a lot of 'putting up' this year, especially after my fun and successful tomato canning adventure of 2008, which led to award-winning results (at least among my friends.) And although ...
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