by Brian | Jul 27, 2018 | Recipes
It’s summertime and you really don’t want to spend all day in the kitchen. But while you drift around in your pool and play some tennis or watch the kids just toss water balloons, your oven can be working away for you. When the sun has set and the temperature begins...
by Brian | Jul 24, 2018 | News
Dear Readers. This will be a slow week for posting here at Cooking by the Book. Suzi and I are in Maine at the annual Kneading Conference. It’s a busy time and I’ll try to write during the week, but I just may be sitting back with some great bread,...
![Piquillo Mostarda for the World’s Best Hotdog [even better than Roakes!]](https://cookingbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/lumed-wc-IMG_3701-1080x675.jpg)
by Brian | Jul 23, 2018 | Recipes
There have been several posts and lots of comments here about hot dogs, specifically the Chili Dog from Roakes Coney Island stand just south of Portland, Oregon. I grew up a mile away from Roakes and from age 8 to when I graduated from college at 22, I ate them...
by Brian | Jul 19, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, Jenny Baker was a prominent British cookbook author with a half dozen tomes devoted to her dream country, France. Even Diana Henry has written about Simple French Cuisine, calling it a forgotten gem:...
![TBT Recipe: Peaches and Bourbon Cocktail for the Summer [in and out of Kentucky]](https://cookingbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/IMG_0807-e1340377458486.jpg)
by Brian | Jul 19, 2018 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes, TBT
This cocktail gem is from a few years ago. I always look forward to the fresh and ripe fruit of summer. Real fruit, local, juicy and demanding that you consume it. Or, as in this case, drink it. I am a rum and tequila person. Those are the spirits that move me....
