by Brian | Mar 28, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It’s Thursday and time for a TBT Cookbook Review. Let’s do the third of the four books in the Time-Life Series Flavor of Italy from 1999. I’ve already written about the volumes Emilia Romagna and Piedmont. Time today for Tuscany. Sicily? Next week. It’s...
by Brian | Mar 28, 2019 | Recipes, TBT
I am a waffle ho’. I have to admit. Last year I got a second waffle iron for the city — we had one upstate but we are only there on weekends. And I’ve been experiment with old and recipes. I find this recipe to quite different from...
by Brian | Mar 27, 2019 | Recipes
In Field of Dreams, the hero is told: “If you build it, they will come.” I think today’s version is: “If you eat kale, a lot of kale, eventually you will like it.” My first taste of kale? Ugly? An urge to retch. A sensation that my throat would be etched...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
As you know, Suzi and I are devoted fans of Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi. They have ten cookbooks plus two London-based restaurants and a cooking school. They are busy people with a passion for quality and authenticity. This book, from four years ago, is...
by Brian | Mar 25, 2019 | Recipes
Irish food maven Darina Allen has a “new” book out. Simply Delicious has recipes from her first two books in the late 1980s. Those were slim paperbacks that were immediate successes. Here, the recipes have been refreshed a tad and, of course, now are...
