Cooking a weeknight meal at the end of a long day can sometimes feel like a tall order. We're tired and most likely hungry, and picking up the phone for take-out feels like a much better option than ...
Giveaway: 101 Sangrias & Pitcher Drinks by Kim Haasarud, published by Wiley Find it: Buy at Amazon, $11.53 How could we let our Memorial Day cocktail bash go by without a mention of sangria, that...
Jessie Saunders knows what it's like to cook and entertain in a tiny kitchen. For years, she and her husband lived in a small apartment in New York's Greenwich Village, where, she says, "If everyone ...
In our world, delicious trumps cute, especially when it's cute for cute's sake. And yet, the new book Hello, Cupcake! features such adorable and easy to make creations that we fell in love.Take those ...
Confirmed carnivores are often flummoxed to find out that one (or more) of their invited dinner party guests is a strict vegetarian. Though you can always go the route of serving them extra portions ...
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...
Gift: Five customizable Tastebooks Shop: Available from Tastebook for $34.95 Are you wondering what you'll give Mom for Mother's Day on May 11? How about a customized Tastebook with some of your own...
We've already told you about our addiction to cookbooks. If you share our predilection, we're about to introduce you to a very dangerous drug. Jessica's Biscuit is an online store offering over 14,000...
When you give a beloved recipe to a friend, do you ever think about how you will preserve your recipes for the next generation? Or perhaps how you'll remember to hold onto great recipes, in spite of a...
We've talked a lot about good cookbooks recently. There have been cocktail books, vintage vegetarian ones, and cookbooks we've loved the covers off of. But in thinking of the books we turn to again ...
The April issue of Saveur includes reviews of new and vintage vegetarian cookbooks. There are so many new cookbooks out every year, and we often feel overwhelmed with choices. It's refreshing to turn ...
Ok, we admit it. Our secret recipe for chocolate chip cookies? It's pretty much made verbatim from the back of the package of chocolate chips. Nestle Toll House chocolate chips to be exact. Sure, we c...
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 ...
If you were to visit Spain and come back enamored with the food, Simone and Inés Ortega's 1080 Recipes would be a great gift to buy yourself. You have to be committed though, and have at least...
Escape at home. If you can't make it to a world-class, fantastically expensive restaurant this month, bring the food home to you. That's what Carol is doing with the food of Thomas Keller and The Fren...
We're always fascinated by old cookbooks. Even cookbooks from just 30 or 40 years ago give a window into the cultural trends and idiosyncracies of the time. We recently found this 1971 edition of the ...
The offer's just so tempting. The Good Cook Book Club offers the chance to buy three cookbooks for just $1 each! When paging through food magazines, we often come to a full stop at The Good Cook's a...
James Beard Award winning cookbooks are recognized as the year's best works by a panel of journalists, editors, and culinary teachers. Judges look for overall excellence and evaluate "content, accurac...
In our vintage 1950 Betty Crocker cookbook there are quite a few newspaper clippings, left there by the original owner. They range from recipes for macaroni and cheese to a very tempting lemon mer...
We recently received a gift from a friend who has a hobby of estate sale scavenging. On the hunt one weekend, she found this 1950 edition of the Betty Crocker cookbook, owned by just one woman for h...
Cabbages tend to languish in my fridge. I bring them home from the winter's market sure that I will cook them right up and eat local. Instead I dump them in the crisper where they slowly turn spotty. ...
Amy Sedaris is not Martha Stewart . . . and that's a good thing. While Martha lives for antique glitter and hosting in the high-class Hamptons, Amy's putting on her own kind party with some plastic g...
Dave Lieberman is a cheerleader for cooking at home. In Dave's Dinners ($27.50, BN.com) the Food Network star promises that anyone can cook tasty, affordable, fun dinners a group of friends. Dave's bl...
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