by Brian | Feb 12, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For her corporate and private events at Cooking by the Book — over 250 a year — Suzen prepares menus to let clients customize their meal. If you look at all the combinations of appetizers, sides, main courses, and desserts, it is mathematically improbably...
by Brian | Feb 12, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
“Can you bring some Saag Paneer?” our friend Charles asked me. “Let me write that down,” I said. I had answered the phone and Charles had invited us to a party with an Indian theme. I was just taking notes. Suzen is the chef. “Just tell...
by Brian | Feb 11, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Writing about a masterpiece cookbook — and 1000 Spanish Recipes is surely that — is just a joyful experience. To discover such a book and share it with our readers here is simply fun. Today, though, there is a patina of sadness in this review, for the...
by Brian | Feb 11, 2015 | Recipes
“Look at this,” I said. We were in Brooklyn, in the Middle Eastern community complete with aromatic restaurants and markets that burst onto the sidewalk with a variety food items we had never seen. I was holding a bottle of pomegranate molasses....
by Brian | Feb 10, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Our lives are filled with assumptions, including big assumptions about our knowledge of our world and ourselves. None of us can begin to absorb more than a fraction of the world’s knowledge, but it is all out there: just Google something and see that...
