by Brian | Jan 5, 2015 | Recipes
I love baked potatoes and, over the decades, I must have consumed acres of them. I would never insult those nice folks in Idaho by saying a baked potato can be boring. But it can be improved upon. I’ve done twice baked before where you simple extract the potato...
by Brian | Jan 5, 2015 | Cocktails, Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Mixology
This petite volume describes itself as “An A-to-Z Guide to Spirits, Cocktails, and Wine with 115 Recipes for the World’s Great Drinks.” And in 330 pages author Jennifer Fiedler delivers on every part of that description. Suzen and I collect bar...
by Brian | Jan 5, 2015 | Recipes
Healthy Latin Eating by Angie Martinez and Angelo Sosa is a sensational new book I blogged about last December: Cookbook Review: Healthy Latin Eating by Angie Martinez and Angelo Sosa Chef Angelo Sosa — visit his Anejo restaurants in NYC if you possibly can...
by Brian | Jan 1, 2015 | News
I haven’t blogged in a week. It was an end of year sabbatical. It’s January 1, 2015, and I’m starting up the New Year today, not with a recipe or a review but with a remembrance. Last week Clint, one of our two cats, succumbed to a long illness. You...
