by Brian | Sep 21, 2015 | Recipes
In last Thursday’s Throwback Cookbook Review, I featured the Steak Lover’s Cookbook from William Rice. The book is 18 years old yet most of the recipes are right in accord with today’s standards and trends. Now,I admit, his first suggestion for...
by Brian | Sep 21, 2015 | Recipes
It’s pumpkin season and time to marry those pumpkin flavors in fall Italian dishes: risottos and pasta. When it comes to pasta, nothing can surpass the luscious body feel in your mouth of tagliatelle. These “torn” lengths of pasta seem to ooze...
by Brian | Sep 18, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Hallie A. Baker does something most of us do not. She makes candy at home. Good candy. Terrific candy. Candy so good her friends told her to open up a business. With two Massachusetts stores, Hallie has been in the press and on television almost from the day she...
by Brian | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
Friday in our Tribeca kitchen is stock day. As the workweek ends, Suzen’s cooking school may have had four or more events. Over a hundred people will have cooked, laughed, and dined here. With that many people, you can be sure we have leftovers. And leftovers...
by Brian | Sep 17, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You may not know the name William Rice but for decades he was the Food Editor for the Chicago Tribune. He attended the Cordon Bleu Cooking School, cooked and baked in France professionally, and was a food writer and journalist of prominence before moving to the...
