by Brian | Oct 25, 2015 | Recipes
In Citrus, Valerie Aikman-Smith and Victoria Pearson offer chapters dedicated to different citrus fruits. There you will find ideas leveraging the specific chemistry each citrus variety offers. In the tangerine chapter you’ll find this lively riff on those...
by Brian | Oct 23, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
There are exceptions to every rule. I have a rule: never mix fruit and chocolate. Black Forest Cake? Please I hate it. I like fruit, I am addicted to chocolate, but the combination, for me, is ghastly. And then there is this cake. On your store shelves are those boxes...
by Brian | Oct 23, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
With over a dozen books, a few decades, and many, many cases of bottles under his belt, Gary Regan is one of the founders of modern mixology. He’s as active and opinionated and funny as ever in The Negroni, published earlier this year by 10 Speed Press. You will...
by Brian | Oct 23, 2015 | News
This is just a brief note to let you know the theme for the coming few weeks in the posts here on Suzi's Blog. That picture above of the pumpkins is not just an early celebration of Halloween. It's a statement of the season we now in, perhaps kneedeep in...
by Brian | Oct 22, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 1989 a remarkable book appeared: Monet’s Table. Written by the wife of Madam Monet’s great-grandson, this book is a treasure hunt. You know that Monet was an incredible artist, a master of light and emotion. What you may not know is that Monet was a...
