by Brian | Aug 4, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Twenty-one years ago, Lydie Marshall wrote this book, one of the five she produced in a 50 year career. Besides writing, Lydie taught cooking in her native France in Provence and in New York. She understood both cultures and in this book brought French country food to...
by Brian | Aug 3, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Yesterday I did a cookbook review for Sugar Rush, a dessert book to teach you the foundation of pastry, from creams to cakes to frostings. It’s an alternative path to becoming a faux pastry chef without leaving home. Or spending three years in school in New...
by Brian | Aug 3, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Most of us grow up eating Chinese food. When I was a kid, Chinese food was it for Asian cuisine in Portland, Oregon. And we did not have a single pizza or Mexican place so if you were not eating American, it was Chinese. There were actually two separate, and...
by Brian | Aug 2, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You’d like to be a pastry chef — or cook like one. But you can’t afford to pick up, move to New York City and attend cooking school for two or three of years. What do you do? In 2014 your solution was published: Sugar Rush by Johnny Iuzzini....
by Brian | Aug 2, 2016 | Recipes
Yesterday I did a cookbook review for The Four Seasons of Pasta, a collection of recipes offering pasta on an elevated level. This is not your ordinary Spaghetti and Meatball collection, not at all. These recipes, as you might expect, are strongly seasonal,...
