by Brian | Jul 22, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzen and I have an arrangement in our marriage. That often occurs. It is the nature of things, as a Roman or Greek philosopher would say. Not that kind of arrangement. She does the savory and bread books. I do desserts and cocktails. I think my cookbook collecting is...
by Brian | Jul 21, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Lorraine Wallace is notable for two things: she is married to journalist Chris Wallace and she has a love for cooking that she admirably crafts into cookbooks. This is her third cookbook and derives its name from the Sunday focus for her life and Chris’. He...
by Brian | Jul 21, 2015 | Recipes
Today’s cookbook review, on a separate post, is for Mr. & Mrs. Sunday’s Suppers by Lorraine Wallace. It’s a book filled with dinner ideas for any day of the week, although personally I think these are Saturday and Sunday night meals. The recipes...
by Brian | Jul 20, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
The title. I know, the title. Was there ever a time when “booze” was not just a tad pejorative? It is a noun here but started as a verb meaning, even by 1300AD, to “drink heavily.” There was an early Philadelphia distiller named E.G. Booz who...
by Brian | Jul 20, 2015 | Recipes
In Tomatomania! authors Scott Daigre and Jenn Garbee offer this unexpected mixture of tomato and vanilla. Summer, with its generous combination of sunlight and an occasional thunderstorm, brings forth a tomato bounty that can almost overwhelm us. There is only so much...
