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Posts tagged “Book Reviews”

Book Review: You Grow Girl by Gayla Trail

We're breaking from the norm a bit and recommending a non-cookbook! But with so many of us tending herb and produce gardens this summer, we thought this one was worth the divergence. Gayla Trail is ...

Book Review: Local Breads by Daniel Leader

"Flour makes a difference, but don't obsess about it." We loved this bit of advice from Daniel Leader's new book, Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe's Best Artisan Bakers. I...

Book Review: Don't Throw It, Grow It!

For the apartment or house dweller without room or desire to compost, there is an alternative to tossing your kitchen scraps: grow them. I've done a potato, who hasn't? I've done a mango pit, whic...

Book Review: 101 Wines by Gary Vaynerchuk

Just as Gary Vaynerchuk warns in his introduction, 101 Wines: Guaranteed to Inspire, Delight, and Bring Thunder to Your World is not your typical wine guide. Well...it is and it isn't. Yes, it's a l...

Thursday Giveaway: 5 Copies of Things Cooks Love

Giveaway: 5 copies of Things Cooks Love by Marie Simmons Find it: Buy at Amazon, $20.37 A couple days ago we reviewed a great resource of a book: Things Cooks Love, by Marie Simmons. This book is pa...

Book Review: Things Cooks Love

Just as we were in the midst of the Kitchn's inaugural Kitchn Cure (eight fun-filled weeks of kitchen cleaning, organizing, stocking, cooking, ending with a big bang of a party in May), a book called ...

Look! Cute Cupcakes from Hello, Cupcake!

In our world, delicious trumps cute, especially when it's cute for cute's sake. And yet, the new book Hello, Cupcake! features such adorable and easy to make creations that we fell in love.Take those ...

Good Cookbooks: The New Vegetarian Epicure

Confirmed carnivores are often flummoxed to find out that one (or more) of their invited dinner party guests is a strict vegetarian. Though you can always go the route of serving them extra portions ...

Book Review: Designing the New Kitchen Garden: An American Potager Handbook

Last week we brought you some questions and answers about gardening from kitchen gardener and author Jennifer Bartley. But we haven't yet brought you a review of her book, Designing the New Kitchen Ga...

Thursday Giveaway: The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book

Gift: Five copies of The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book by Barbara W. Ellis Shop: Available from Amazon for $10.17 I keep one book in my gardening tote, Barbara Damrosch's The Garden Primer, and have ...

Weekend Reading: Favorite Cookbooks on Baking Bread

Anyone doing any baking this weekend? We're still playing around with sourdough in our kitchen, which boils down to throwing a cup of sourdough starter in just about everything. (Pizza dough? YES! Muf...

Book Review: The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook

Last week in New Orleans at the IACP conference, I met many fellow food writers. One particularly charming author was Amelia Saltsman, who wrote and published The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookboo...

Book Review: Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris

We have been big fans of Clotilde Dusoulier's weblog Chocolate & Zucchini for a long time. We have made her Melt in Your Mouth Chocolate Cake many times, and we enjoy her friendly and approachable...

Straight Up: IMBIBE! by David Wondrich

Father of the cocktail, “Professor” Jerry Thomas was the consummate showman, a kind of early “flair” bartender. He wore diamonds. Lots of them. He hosted a pair of frisky white rats on his sho...

Book Review: American Artisanal: Finding the Country's Best Real Food, from Cheese to Chocolate

This book is a treasure. We offered it in our Hungry Reader Challenge to the first six readers who cooked a dish or meal from a book they love. Two readers took us up on it (if you feel motivated, sen...

Book Review: The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry

We wanted to love this book, really we did! But when we turned the last page and sat back in our chair, we found ourselves left with some mixed reactions. It was the title that initially drew us in--...

Book Review: The Taste of Sweet

The current zeitgeist of popular food non-fiction books leans more towards the puritan than the hedonistic. Michael Pollan's catchy phrase "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," doesn't also instruc...

Book Review: The Go Green East Harlem Cookbook

Given recent attention focused on the more tawdry side of New York politics, we thought we'd profile something good and wholesome coming out of the marble halls of governance: The Go Green East Harlem...

Book Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

We're still trying to catch up on a few of the top foodie reads from 2007, and we wanted to make sure you didn't miss this one! Animal, Vegetable, Miracle chronicles the struggles and triumphs from a...

Book Review: Roast Chicken and Other Stories

With Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, and Jamie Oliver among the ranks of current British chefs-or-cooks-who-write, it seems to me that some of the most exciting ideas about eating and food are coming ...

Book Review: Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day

The host of no-knead recipes from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day have been making quiet ripples through the baking community, and we felt that it was time take a look for ourselves to see what th...

Book Review: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark to Light

Mort Rosenblum begins his book Chocolate with a quote from Brillat-Savarin: "Nine of every ten persons say they love chocolate. The tenth lies." This book digs deep into the worldwide love of and obse...

Holiday Gift Bag 2007: Win Confetti Cakes & Demolition Desserts

We are giving away one gift bag each weekday through December 21. Happy Holidays from The Kitchn! | Previous Days' Gift Bags Gift: Confetti Cakes and Demolition Desserts Authors: Elisa Strauss &am...

Book Review: 1080 Recipes

If you were to visit Spain and come back enamored with the food, Simone and Inés Ortega's 1080 Recipes would be a great gift to buy yourself. You have to be committed though, and have at least...