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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
When it comes to books about food, and books that appeal to both young and old, Natalie Babbitt's The Search for Delicious is one that cannot go unread. The Search for Delicious is a fairy tale wri...
We are happy readers, here at The Kitchn, and as we announced last week, this month we're taking a trip through books that have inspired us to cook (and eat!). We are curious whether you're reading ...
A few years ago, when I heard about the death of my old friend Beth, the first thing that came to mind was her copy of The Joy of Cooking. Missing its white paper cover, swollen with dozens of spills...
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 ...
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was a favorite book long before we moved to this fine city. Thanks to author Betty Smith's vividly descriptive prose, this coming-of-age story is the kind of book you curl up ...
Our discussion yesterday of eating while reading made us think about foods that we eat while reading. It seems like there's a sharp divide between foods that are good for eating-while-reading, and oth...
Fragrant, labor-intensive Indian dishes are whipped up as effortlessly as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by several characters in Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories...
The last time we lived with roommates, they were regularly bemused to see us sitting at the table with food and wine laid out and one of these wire bookstands propped up with our latest read. Evening ...
We talk a lot about local food here at The Kitchn. We believe that your cooking can be better when informed by your local seasons and crop cycles. We also want to stay connected with local farmers and...
Today we're kicking off our month dedicated to The Hungry Reader and we want to start at the very beginning. What are your favorite picture books about food? As children, we went through picture ...
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food... Desiderius Erasmus We are happy readers, here at The Kitchn. We have been thinking about how many books have stirred our appet...
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