by Brian | Feb 13, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
How do you begin a cookbook review for a book targeted to kids? You start with muscles. No, not mussels. I do mean muscles. Twenty years ago, working with kids in the kitchen required some care. Giving them a knife was perhaps risky. Attention and...
by Brian | Feb 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve just posted today’s Cookbook Review: My Greek Table by Diane Kochilas. I mentioned several recipes and put the photo in for this one: Grilled or Seared Leaks with Shaved Sheep’s Milk Cheese and Prunes. It’s very Greek, very close to the earth, and a...
by Brian | Feb 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Diane Kochilas has a schedule that is preposterous: restaurant consultant, chef at times, always an author, running her Glorious Greek cooking school on her native island of Ikaria, and now releasing Season 2 of My Greek Table on PBS. You do want to...
by Brian | Feb 11, 2019 | Recipes
I just posted a review of Darina Allen’s newest cookbook: Simply Delicious, The Classic Collection. New book. Old, and classic, recipes. Recipes you do not want to miss. Thirty years ago, when she began her Simply Delicious series on Irish television, she also began...
by Brian | Feb 11, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Darina Allen is a famed Irish, no world, culinary figure. Author, media personality, and founder of the glorious Ballymaloe Cookery School. She also founded the first farmers market in modern Ireland, an action in today’s environment that actually gives...
