by Brian | Apr 22, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It is very true that, when you get off the plane in San Francisco and smell the air and feel the sunshine, you know you have landed in a different world. Northern California is an intensely rich culinary hive. Farms and orchards, fisherman and bakers, candy makers,...
by Brian | Apr 22, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
“We’re making this,” Suzen announced. We had a family dinner to attend and, as usual, our contribution was dessert. I had a Roasted Banana Bread Pudding in mind, because I always bring chocolate and I was feeling guilty about that...
by Brian | Apr 21, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you love pie, or wish you could, then Vintage Pies by Anne Haynie Collins is volume you can use now and in the spring and summer and fall. Pie in some form should be a year round experience. Anne lets you have that experience with authenticity. A pie fanatic, Anne...
by Brian | Apr 21, 2015 | Recipes
I recently posted a review of Tupelo Honey Café: New Southern Flavors from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Author Elizabeth Sims and her collaborator, Chef Brian Sonoskus, have compiled a second volume of dishes representing the lively fare of the Tupelo Honey...
by Brian | Apr 18, 2015 | Recipes
It’s a Red Flag day upstate. The temperature will be in the 70’s, for the first time in six months. But the winds will be high, perhaps 35 mph. That’ll scatter all the fall leaves that remain. Mine will blow away, but I’ll inherit my...
