by Brian | Apr 24, 2017 | Recipes
In Toast Hash Roast Mash: Real Foods for Every Time of the Day, British Chef and Author Dan Doherty offers some “everyday” ideas that are hardly everyday food. It’s a book filled with recipes that combine a just a few things for rambunctious meals. There are...
by Brian | Apr 24, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Sometimes a cookbook, however complex, can be described in a single word. Like, magnificent. Or, maybe, encyclopedic. I think the best singled word description for China: The Cookbook is actually hyphenated: must-buy. Chinese food is one of the top three or four...
by Brian | Apr 23, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
For twenty-five years Dave Broom has been writing about spirits with zeal and skill. He produced the marvelous Whiskey: The Manual in 2014, manifestly THE tour book to the grandeur of whiskey. That was followed in 2015 by the equally definitive Gin: The Manual. Now we...
by Brian | Apr 22, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Carla Snyder has had 30-year career cooking, catering, writing, and bringing to thousands the treasures of her kitchen. In her eighth book, Sweet and Tart, Carla tackles the difficult job of a “single topic” cookbook. How do you something new and different while not...
by Brian | Apr 22, 2017 | Recipes
My wife eats sushi. I don’t. Marriages proceed by compromising. Suzi and I do it well. We have a neighborhood Japanese restaurant with a lovely sushi bar and a chef there who greets Suzi with a smile and a list of the night’s specialities. He nods at me. I nod at him....
