![Cookbook Review: The Desserts of New York [and how to eat them all]](https://cookingbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wc-Book-Cover-11-503x700-79603_503x675.jpg)
by Brian | Mar 25, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Oh, author Yasmin Newman is deadly serious. You are going to eat them all. Or try. Lordy, what a book. I can’t imagine all the effort expended, but I’m sure Yasmin had fun. She has walked the city, surveyed countless sweet spots, and now has documented...
![Cookbook Review: Lisbon by Rebecca Seal [with photos by husband Steven Joyce]](https://cookingbythebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wc-Book-Cover-10-1080x675.jpg)
by Brian | Mar 22, 2019 | Cookbook Review
Imagine the capital of a vast empire. A city built on seven hills surround a looping river. Rome? Yes, but also Lisbon. For two thousand years, the spice trade from Asia ended in Italy, first in Rome and then in Venice and Genoa. But in the 1400s,...
by Brian | Mar 22, 2019 | Recipes
It’s spring and time for trout. This recipe from Basque Country notes that fishermen venture out into cold spring streams to secure brown trout, ideal for this recipe. Trout and salmon are closely related, but we eat far more salmon than trout. If you’ve had a...
by Brian | Mar 21, 2019 | News, Recipes
The core of many desserts is pastry cream. It’s that “elegant goo” that makes you begin to think about having seconds, before your wife stares you down. I did this comparison a few years of “pastry cream” and I discovered that it...
by Brian | Mar 21, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review features the biggest book in our Pastry Week from five years ago. This massive book will get you underway with your spring baking. Yes, spring is here and now you begin to limber up, lift this very heavy book, and find something...
