I am not a vegetarian, but there are many recipes that intrigue me in this elegant new cookbook by Mollie Katzen of Moosewood fame. The savory Mushroom Bread Pudding, Gazpacho Salad, or anything from the chapter titled “Cozy Mashes” all sound delicious. The recipes are all vegetarian and many are vegan, so there will be …
The holiday parties are starting, and so are the holiday cookie swaps. Sure, you could always pick up something from the bakery at the grocery store on the way, but maybe you enjoy taking the time to find a great new recipe and make it. I am a big fan of the chocolate advent calendar; …
I’m not typically a “reader” of cookbooks, but I found this one to be a delectably tantalizing read. The author’s introduction to the book warms the reader into submission to begin making pies. Entries throughout the book, such as Best Peach Pie in the World, are mouth-watering inspirations. Of course, I am a lover of pie …
Appetites, Bourdain’s first cookbook in more than ten years, boils down forty-plus years of professional cooking and globe-trotting to a tight repertoire of personal favorite dishes that everyone should know how to cook. The result is a home-cooking, home-entertaining cookbook like no other, with personal favorites from his own kitchen and from his travels, translated …
Every year, one cookbook draws me in again and again. This is that book for 2015. I’ve made a lot of delicious desserts out of this book, but the savory recipes, created by local chefs, are equally delicious. I’ve made hundreds of graham crackers, both regular & gluten-free, to build homemade s’mores. The Nibby Crackers …
This installment of Taste crosses multiple national borders and takes on an entire region. My justification is twofold: first because the area in question was not so long ago organized as the single state of Yugoslavia, and second because someone asked me to do it. A customer planning a trip called my shop and said …
150 meatless meals good enough to serve to company. The winner of this year’s IACP People’s Choice Cookbook Award is dedicated to helping you put on the best dinner party of your life. Includes insights into playlist creations, seating and lighting tips alongside incredible party-style recipes that happen to be meat free. Each recipe includes …
It’s June and the weather here has been lovely–well, until today, which is cool and gray and occasionally rainy–and my thoughts have been on summertime. I don’t really do summertime things, being more of an indoors sort of person, but I like the idea of summertime things like gardening and barbecues and block parties and …
“This is my go to book for fast, delicious, mostly-weeknight dinners. The recipes are creative, inspiring and manageable!” — Lillian Welch, Book Larder, Seattle, WA From the book: We all need “Keepers” in our life–brag-worthy, reliable, crowd-pleasing preparations that we confidently turn to again and again. Get cooking with a copy from Book Larder or another independent …
It didn’t seem like overkill when I dropped twenty pounds of good unsalted butter and ten liters of Moroccan olive oil on Jess Thomson’s porch in April of 2013. She’d need at least that much for recipe testing for A Boat, a Whale and a Walrus. As I drove away, I couldn’t have known that …
