by Brian | May 22, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
He’s back. Richard H. Turner has a new cookbook: Hog. Oh, you don’t recognized the name? He was part of the team that brought you Pitt Cue Co: The Cookbook in 2013. That book is a fabulous tale about some Brits who love meat, explored American barbeque...
by Brian | May 21, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In the 1930’s a man named James Beard moved from the Pacific Northwest to his city of destiny: New York. The ultimate gourmand, Beard and some friends wanted to fashion a food business and, after consideration and experimentation, they formed a small shop...
by Brian | May 21, 2015 | Recipes
No, it’s not tomato soup. It’s pimento soup. Creamy pimento soup. In her book Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook author Perre Coleman Magness serves up a tribute to the sparkling pimento pepper. Often the pimentos appear in recipes for pimento cheese...
by Brian | May 21, 2015 | Recipes
In her latest book Bitter: A Taste of the World’s Most Dangerous Flavor, Jennifer McLagan entices us to put away our instinctive fear of the flavor bitter. Yes, instinctive. Many of the plants and berries that our earlier hunter-gatherer ancestors were foraging...
by Brian | May 20, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
The truth is I am not a regular consumer of pimento cheese. I do like it, for I’m addicted to peppers. But for me it has never become a daily habit. Turns out, if I had grown up in the South, it could have been a daily staple. Perre Coleman Magness is a native...
