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Need Ideas for Dinner? Try Old Food Magazines!

We came across this treasure trove of Fine Cooking and Saveur back issues at a yard sale the other day. It made us smile to flip through pages of old recipes, out-dated equipment reviews, and food fad...

Kitchen Tech: Organize Recipes Using Google Reader

We follow a lot of food blogs (too many probably!) and we're constantly coming across great new recipes and ideas we want to try. We've used Google Reader to siphon all those blog feeds into one place...

Will Food Magazines Survive The Slump?

We're a cooking website, sure, but we still love the old-school cooking magazines. I have a few favorites stacked up here on my desk for inspiration, and I'm willing to pay for a select few to arrive ...

High-Tech in the Kitchen: Electronic Delivery for Food Magazines?

With the release of the new Kindle coupled with Amazon's recent move to make their e-books available to iPhone and iTouch users, our thoughts naturally gravitate to our favorite food magazines. Would ...

What We're Reading: Fine Cooking

Around this time last year, we asked what food magazines you were reading. Only one person commented about Fine Cooking, a title that doesn't get nearly as much attention as Gourmet or Cook's Illu...

Children's Book Recommendation: Let's Cook! by Robert Crowther

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...

The New Yorker Food Issue

Every year for Thanksgiving, we go to Costa Rica with a group of friends to unwind and unplug (that's right, no internets for AT's Mama and Papa Bear.) It's divine. Except that with a toddler in tow, ...

From The Email: Favorite Local and Seasonal Cooking Books

A version of this post was originally sent to our email subscribers on September 4th. To receive Sara Kate's weekly email, sign up in the column to the left or click here. Something tasty will arrive ...

Shore Magazine: Indian Summer Dinner
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Northwest Indiana's Shore magazine covers the style and culture of life along the southern shores of Lake Michigan. The latest issue features recipes for an Indian summer dinner....

Blogging Gastronomica: Convenience Food and Eating on the Go

In her Gastronomica article, "Grab and Go - A Restless Nation Tanks Up," Maggie Jackson quotes a 7-Eleven store manager whom she interviewed: "We've taken the memories of home-baked banana nut loaf a...

Sara Kate (and Recipes) in O Magazine

Look! Our own Sara Kate made an appearance in Oprah's magazine this month, with cameos by Ursula and Maxwell... ...

Kitchen Contemplation: How Many Cookbooks Is Too Many Cookbooks?

I have two cookbooks in my Amazon cart right now and they’re burning a hole right through to my desktop. One I’ve already seen and know I’ll love, the other I haven’t seen but I just know any...

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: 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...

Good Question: Good Books on Kitchen Design?

I'm far from the point in my life where I should even be thinking about the design of my kitchen, but that doesn't stop me from fantasizing. Can you guys recommend some good books on kitchen design?...

Organization: Getting Rid of Old Food Magazines

That's a 2004 issue of Gourmet on the far right. Isn't the cover nice? We've had it sitting in a stack of magazines on our coffee table for years, through multiple moves, and still haven't thrown it a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

What Are Your Favorite Food Scenes in Classic Novels?

Last week we talked about your favorite food-themed picture books. This week, we're curious - what are your favorite food scenes in classic novels? There is so much to choose from, especially among th...