by Brian | Jun 20, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Not too many people forage anymore. And it is hard to imagine someone on Staten Island being a local forager, but sure enough, Amy Zavatto is just that. Deliciously that. She has explored all around New York City, finding exciting, if not exotic, components in the...
by Brian | Jun 20, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Too often we knock off cookies as quickly as possible. A pan of brownies. A tray of dollops of chocolate chip batter. Fast and furious. I know: a cookie pang requires speed. Cookies can, and sometimes should, be made differently, with a more subtle attitude. Think of...
by Brian | Jun 19, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
We eat eggs. Sometimes as the primary focus: scramble or hardboiled. Sometimes as key ingredient: that Devil’s food cake or those brownies you love. We do seem, however, not to exploit the full culinary power of eggs. The wonderful publisher Ryland Peters & Small...
by Brian | Jun 19, 2017 | Recipes
What is Argentinian food? Beef, you thought beef, right? And right you are. Beef is central to the, but beef never becomes boring in Argentina. There is more than meets the grill. Argentina has a complex social mix of immigrants. In many ways, it could be described as...
by Brian | Jun 18, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
We learned on Friday that Flo Braker has died. Do you know the name? She was not as famous as Julia Child, but, she was surely as important, one of the seminal bakers in America in the last century. She wrote only three cookbooks, but hundreds of newspaper columns....
