About a week ago we shared a kitchen tour with you. It was a big, open kitchen that usually is filled with four children under the age of 9, and it belongs to author Emily Franklin. Emily just release...
For a vegan, traveling can be a bit daunting. Unless you’re heading to a city with lots of vegan food options, how can you be sure your trip won’t be ruined by endless side salads and dry toast? A...
Shirley O. Corriher's first book, CookWise, graces many of our bookshelves and is a much-used resource for solving kitchen mysteries and avoiding cooking pitfalls. In BakeWise, Corriher puts the magni...
One of the best ways to eat locally year round is to preserve the bounty when it's in season. Once upon a time these skills were common knowledge for every homemaker, but for most people the last sev...
Before her semi-recent narrative on the Passover Seder, Marge Piercy is a writer I knew of primarily as a poet. Her fiery, intense poetry was brought to my attention by a writing teacher when I was a ...
We have always gotten lots of questions related to cooking for a crowd, but lately the topic seems to have gotten hotter. These days, so many of us are choosing to entertain in with friends rather tha...
One problem I don't have is having, say, a dozen boneless skinless chicken breasts in my freezer. That's because, as most of you know, I live in Manhattan with a tiny refrigerator and no Costcos in wa...
The Edible Schoolyard program has become very well known in the last ten years or so, principally because of its original founder: Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. She was struck by what she saw as waste...
Last weekend my husband and I joined friends for a home cooked feast at their new apartment. Over incredible lamb shanks, parsnip puree and asparagus, we talked a lot about meat, where we buy it, how ...
We've been slowly savoring this book for several weeks now, reading a few lovely snippets before bed and poring over recipes during breakfast. It's started to feel like a constant companion - always r...
Given its price, ecological impact, and a perceived difficulty of cooking, steak isn't the most common make-at-home food these days, but author Cree LeFavour thinks she can change at least some of the...
Do you cook for just two (or one) most nights? Do you struggle with recipes that are sized for a crowd, or at least for Mom, Dad, 2.3 kids and a dog? Well, Jessica Strand wants to help you in her attr...
If you're a fan of cooking blogs (which if you're reading this is likely) then you may know Molly Wizenberg simply as Orangette. One of the early and most popular blogs focused on food and cooking, O...
You know it was only a matter of time. Only a matter of time, that is, before someone wrote and published an entire book about no-knead bread! Well, this is it: Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free...
Some people say we should grow more of our own food because the food system as we know it is on the verge of collapse. Other say we should do it as a way to enhance our lives and save the planet. An...
Do your kids help out with the cooking in your house? Whether they're toddlers or teenagers, Beth Sheresh thinks that there are lots of ways that kids can contribute in the kitchen - not to mention th...
Writer and podcast host Anne Bramley was born in a blizzard, and her passion for winter cooking starts there. With memories of winter birthday cakes and holiday roast meats, she became, in her own wor...
When most American homecooks think of Chinese food, it's the kind eaten out or ordered in, not cooked at home. This is partly a function of a pantry not fit for Chinese cooking and partly the intimida...
Looking for a book to satisfy that New Year's resolution you made to cook more often but not sure where to start? Paulette Mitchell, a cookbook author with thirteen titles to her name, recently came o...
We usually leave this type of thing for our friends over at Ohdeedoh, but we're absolutely in love with this interactive "Press-Out-And-Play" cooking book for kids! So much so that when it came time t...
When we heard that Rancho Gordo was going to put out their very own cookbook, we were excited. Rancho Gordo singlehandedly changed the way we think about beans. Legumes went from mushy meal fill-ins t...
Among the most treasured items on our bookshelves is a collection of volumes from Persephone Books. Elegant in their simplicity, these little volumes have identical dove-grey jackets and lovely endpap...
Our pie contest may be closed for submissions, but the pie love keeps going for another couple of weeks. Just in time is a new book called The Amish Cook at Home (Andrews McMeel). It's not a pie book ...
Rancho La Puerta started almost seventy years ago when Edmond and Deborah Szekely went to Tecate, Mexico and started a "health camp." Guests paid $17.50 for a week at the camp. You had to bring your o...
Who hasn't found themselves in the pages of a well-used copy of Sheila Lukins's The Silver Palate Cookbook at some point in their cooking career? When I first moved to New York eleven years ago, it wa...
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