by Brian | Sep 12, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Two years ago Jennifer McGruther wrote The Nourished Kitchen to match her popular website. Her focus is traditional foods and classic techniques: broths, fermented veggies, raw dairy, all the things that people used to eat every day and now do too infrequently....
by Brian | Sep 12, 2016 | Recipes
Now is surely the time when the carrots are ripe and sweet. A summer’s worth of the sun’s energy makes them sublime. Thing is, what do you do with them all? Raw carrots are fun, but that crispness can get to you after a while. [My teeth start to...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2016 | News, Techniques
There is something quite beautiful about a head of roast garlic. Complex. Just a little alien looking and even puzzling. Okay, I roasted it. Now what? You can spread that roasted garlic over bread and pair with wine. No, I would not just eat cloves of roasted garlic....
by Brian | Sep 10, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you love cocktails and fruit, then this cocktail tome belongs in your bar. Right there, on the shelf, next to the rum and pisco. Authors Vianney Rodreiguez and Yvette Marquez-Sharpnack are award winning bloggers who have joyously teamed on this liquid tour...
by Brian | Sep 10, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
It’s September, the official start of the pomegranate season. It may take a while for them to appear in your supermarket, but they will. Tammy Donroe Inman put his pavlova on the cover of her book Wintersweet — you can see my review here....
