by Brian | Aug 21, 2018 | Recipes
In her new and delightful The Art of the Party Kay Plunkett-Hogge’s expertise is on full display. Drinks and noshes of all shapes and size and flavors roll off the pages of this tidy and most helpful book. Here’s one idea: serve little shots of soup. Kay offers...
by Brian | Aug 20, 2018 | Recipes
Last week I reviewed an important new pie book: The Taartworks Pie Cookbook by Brittany Bennet. I said I would start testing with this pie and this crust. Well, what I meant to say was that I would buy the berries and, since they were in the refrigerator, gently...
by Brian | Aug 16, 2018 | Recipes, TBT
Here’s an idea from a few years ago that will make your summer weekend breakfasts burst with flavor. We have blackberries in abundance. Pair them with this wonderful coffee cake for the perfect beginning to your day. In Breakfast Comforts Rick Rodgers offers...
by Brian | Aug 15, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Quite often our lives are complicated. Do I do this now or later? Or at all? Where to get coffee? How should I exercise to work off the damn caffeine? And then there are the easy things in life. The no-brainers. Oh, a new book by Kay Plunkett-Hodge? Well, of course, I...
by Brian | Aug 14, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This actually isn’t a cookbook. There are no recipes here. But it will drive you pack your bags and make a pilgrimage to Texas for a sampling of the best barbeque in the world. In 2009, Wyatt McSpadden wrote Texas BBQ, a survey of Texas barbeque in brilliant text and...
