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Do You Cook From Vintage Cookbooks?

When I was a kid, I used to read all my mom's Gourmet magazines and flip through her collection of Time Life Foods of the World. The photographs of food and faraway places lit up something inside me ...

Recipe: Cake Love's Chocolate Butter Cake with Pastry Cream & Italian Buttercream

We received mixed reviews after sharing our thoughts on the Cake Love cookbook last week. We'd tested 5 or 6 cakes from the book with extreme success, but those who live near the bakeries were in dis...

Inspiration: Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue

Remember our hot dog buffet post from last week? The graphic from that post came from our new favorite cookbook, The Better Homes & Gardens Barbecue Book. The pages are full of outdoor cooking "te...

Laurie Colwin: Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant

Many small-apartment dwellers dream of a spacious, well-appointed kitchen. But what happens when you get it? Well, if you're like Laurie Colwin, sometimes you find yourself reminiscing about washing a...

Regional Specialty: Kentucky Jam Cake

I just finished reading Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund and am now obsessed with the idea of Kentucky Jam Cake! In the book, the cake ends up becoming the way for the main character to keep ties wit...

Omnivore Books on Food
San Francisco

Omnivore Books on Food is a new bookstore in San Francisco. Housed in a former butcher shop in Noe Valley, they specialize in books about food, particularly vintage and hard-to-find books....

Good Quote: Gardening at the Dragon's Gate

These days it’s trendy for restaurants to develop a relationship with a local farm, but here in the Bay Area this has been going on for quite a while. Greens Restaurant in San Francisco has been fe...

Hungry Reader Challenge: Baguettes from Les Miserables

Here's one last entry in our Hungry Reader Challenge. We had a lot of fun last month remembering some of our favorite food from books. Novels, essays, plays and poetry have inspired our cooking, eatin...

The Hungry Reader: On Cooking and Plot

March is over but we're still polishing off a month of Hungry Reading and our Hungry Reader Challenge. Here's a post from our Weekend Meditations contributor Dana. Sometimes novels that aren't tryin...

Hungry Reader Challenge: Julia Child's Tarte Tatin

The next entry in our Hungry Reader Challenge is from Stephanie, who also gave us this Bittersweet Baking Honorable Mention: Go Buckeye Cherry Pie. Through our recent Book Club Stephanie has grown sl...

Food in Literature: Take The Guardian's Tough Quiz

Here's a little tidbit courtesy of reader Stacey, just in time for the end of Hungry Reader month. The Guardian - a major British newspaper - has a quiz on books and food. It's a tough one - we're not...

Hungry Reader Challenge: All's Well That Ends Well and Cornish Pasties

We issued a Hungry Reader challenge with a reward: Cook a dish or meal inspired by a book, and we'll send you a copy of a new favorite book, American Artisanal by Rebecca Gray. There are still several...

Weekend Reading: Cooked Books from The New Yorker

The lengthy descriptions of cooking that we find in modern literature are a way of artfully representing, rather than actually reproducing, our mental life—a modelled illusion, rather than a snapsho...

The Hungry Reader Challenge: Cook A Dish From a Book and Win a Copy of American Artisanal

We're nearing the end of March (already?) and we've had a lot of fun this month quietly blogging food from some of our favorite books. We've done maple syrup from the Little House books, hobbits and m...

Good For You, Yet Delicious: The Short Stories (and Cooking) of Laurie Colwin

We owe a great debt to Laurie Colwin. She gave us bracing inspiration in our cooking development, insisting in her brief yet potent essays for Gourmet, collected in Home Cooking and More Home Cooking,...

Cooking Advice from Pears On A Willow Tree

In the book Pears On A Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk, which chronicles four generations of Polish-American women passing down culinary traditions to one another, the matriarch of the family tells her...

The Hungry Reader: Hobbits, Mushrooms and Bacon

What would Hungry Reader month be without a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's hobbits and their everlasting love of mushrooms? The small, homey people in those books have an enormous love of food that far...

Morning Meditation: Food for the Journey

We're starting to wind down our Hungry Reader month here at the Kitchn, and as we look back over all these books that we've carried with us and loved, we see a very subtle theme. Whether it's Gaylen a...

Straight Up: Thirsty Reads from Haruki Murakami

“Anyone who enjoys whisky would recognize me right away, but never mind. My name is Johnnie Walker.”-Kafka on the ShoreLast week we took a look at Irish whiskey. Before that, straight rye. This we...

The Hungry Reader: Peter Rabbit's Brown Bread

It's the first day of spring, and we're thinking rabbits, eggs, and chicks. Except, here at The Kitchn, we try to avoid all that twee stuff. For us, the trappings of spring mean gold painted eggs and ...

The Hungry Reader: Revolutionary Road

We've given you plenty of wholesome, heartwarming dishes in scenes from some of our favorite novels. But in Revolutionary Road — a bitter look at suburban life in the 1950s — it's a grotesque di...

The Hungry Reader: Maple Syrup and The Little House in the Big Woods

With all the Hungry Reader nostalgia going on, we couldn't help but run to the bookshelf for our copy of Little House in the Big Woods. Whether it's hasty pudding or salt-rising bread, Ma's always got...

Hungry Reader Weekend Picnic: The Time Traveler's Wife

Among the many poignant moments in this quirky love story by Audrey Niffenegger, it's the lazy picnics shared by grade-school Clare and her time-traveling husband-to-be that stand out for us. In the...

This Is Just To Say We Like The Food in William Carlos Williams' Poetry

Cut Plum by Duane Keiser So much depends upon food and farm in our favorite poems by William Carlos Williams ... Have you ever hoarded a bit of special cheese or the perfect heirloom tomato? But wh...

Weekend Inspiration: Early American Cookery

If you've been thumbing through your cookbooks with a sigh of boredom, help is on the way! The folks over at Feeding America and the Internet Archive have been hard at work scanning hundreds of early ...

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