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The Hungry Reader: The Search for Delicious

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...

The Hungry Reader: What Are You Reading This Week?

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 ...

In Praise of the Well-Used Cookbook

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...

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 ...

The Hungry Reader: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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 ...

The Best (and Worst) Foods to Eat While Reading

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...

The Hungry Reader: Rogan Josh in Interpreter of Maladies

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 Hungry Reader: Do You Read While Eating?

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 ...

Does the US Government Actively Discourage Local Food?

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...

What Are Your Favorite Children's Picture Books About Food?

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 ...

The Hungry Reader: Food in Literature for March

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...

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...

Which Food Magazines Are You Reading?

We've asked about your favorite food magazines in the past, but it's been a while, and we're curious about your winter magazine habit. What food mags are you currently reading? ...

What We're Reading: Late February Book Roundup

Yes, we're deep into our Book Club pick, Julia Child's memoirs, but being book-lovers we all have lots more on our bedside tables. Here are a few of the food-related books that we're currently readi...

Mark Bittman on Minimizing Meat

So. Did you read Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times this weekend? Bittman, who is definitely not a vegetarian, lays out the hard facts about meat, energy, and the American diet. ...

Weekend Reading: Gourmet's Archives

When we blogged about Gourmet's new web look, we blogged too soon. We should have cracked open February's issue, where Ruth Reichl informed us that yes, the new website would be a new platform for the...

Michael Pollan, Joan Gussow and Dan Barber Speak

When I headed uptown to the 92nd Street Y last night to hear Michael Pollan, Dan Barber and Joan Dye Gussow speak to Hedonistic, Healthy And Green: Can We Have It All?, I expected to see a few hundr...

Cook's Talk: Short and Long Caramels

Caramel - it's the thing this season. We've made four batches now with varying degrees of success. All were delicious but some were, well, just a little too soft. In our research on this troubling to...

Umami Bombs: Use the Fifth Taste in Holiday Cooking

What do soy sauce, Parmesan cheese, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten's dish of Parmesan custard and white truffles all have in common? They are all "umami bombs," according to The Wall Street Journal a...

On Finding Old Cookbooks: Chez Panisse Desserts

Chez Panisse is certainly all about Alice Waters but imagine my glee when rummaging around a Palm Springs thrift store, I stumbled upon a first edition of Chez Panisse Desserts by Lindsey Remolif She...

Grandmothers vs. Science: Responses to Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan's article, Unhappy Foods, in in last week's Times Magazine has, not unexpectedly, generated some controversy. He advised: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. He encourages us not e...

From the Kitchen: On Martin Luther King Day

Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, so, like many of you, we're taking the day off. But we don't want to let the day go by as just one more welcome holiday, breaking up the rush of January bu...

Alex Karpranos: Rock Star Foodie

Alex Karpanos, the lead singer/guitarist for Franz Ferdinand, it turns out, is a bit of a foodie. In the February 2007 issue of Bon Appétit, the Scottish musician gives a brief interview, talking a...

Dreamy Cottage Living Kitchens

When I grudgingly cracked open Cottage Living magazine for the first time I expected Amish doll toaster cosys, fake vintage signs hung at a jaunty angles declaring "Eggs: three cents," and so much mor...

NYC Event: Matt Lee & Ted Lee Reading

Brothers Matt Lee and Ted Lee will read from The Lee Bros. Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble (1972 Broadway at 66th Street) ...

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