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How We Recommend Cookbooks

The past year has been a bountiful one for cookbook authors. Oh, you’ve heard that publishing is declining, but cookbook publishing is actually up and quality books abound. Suzen and I love to review cookbooks and recommend them based on recipes we’ve...
The Cheesemonger’s Kitchen

The Cheesemonger’s Kitchen

The title for The Cheesemonger’s Kitchen has been very carefully chosen. Author Chester Hastings is a superior cheesemonger, a man with a culinary pedigree we all would dream about. And the “kitchen” part? This is a cookbook, not a cheese encyclopedia filled with maps...
Archipelago Bread

Archipelago Bread

  You may have heard in your life about different therapies people follow. Some are into yoga, some do marathons, some drink, some swim. Some attempt to do all these things in the same day. Therapists joke about their Mondays. The patients creep in for massive...
Cherry Tomato Jam: Pairing Fruit with Cheese

Cherry Tomato Jam: Pairing Fruit with Cheese

  Did you ever have someone give you an absolutely perfect dish? And you were going to get that recipe from them? And then, most sadly, they passed away? You remember their face and their laughter. You remember their tomato conserve that was a miracle. Suzen and...
The Kitchen as Laboratory

The Kitchen as Laboratory

From the Wikipedia topic “Glass”: Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent. The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of...