by Brian | Jun 3, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Jose Pizarro is a renown Spanish chef and cookbook author. He now lives in London where he dashes among his trio of restaurants. Basque is his fourth cookbook. It reflects his love of Basque Country, a sliver of land where Spain and France meet and extending...
by Brian | Jun 3, 2016 | Recipes
I recently posted a review of The Kitchen Shelf, a new and clever book for “us.” There are books that tell you how to create a great dish 20 minutes with 3 ingredients. This is not that kind of book. Not that kind at all. The Kitchen Shelf suggests you...
by Brian | Jun 2, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2011 a rather remarkable cookbook appeared: Cooking with Chocolate, Essential Recipes and Techniques. The book was edited by Frédéric Bau from the École du Grand Chocolate Valrhona. Now “grand” is an operative word here and...
by Brian | Jun 2, 2016 | Recipes, TBT
Many of us drink gin and we are in a gin paradise: there is a generation of new gins being created in Europe and across this country. In Brooklyn, for example, there are little micro spots coming up with diverse and grand flavors, for example, Greenhook...
