by Brian | May 15, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You may not recognize the name, Salvatore Calabrese, but you may well have sampled one of his cocktail ideas. The author of 10 best-selling books — including the famed Complete Home Bartender’s Guide — Salvatore has returned with a rework of his 2005 How to...
by Brian | May 14, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I just posted a happy review of Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails. And this is the first cocktail there that caught my eye. How can you pass on a Zombie? Yes, I do watch the Walking Dead on TV [although I have 35 episodes recorded but not yet watched]. I think I’m going...
by Brian | May 14, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It is May. It is spring. Outside you may still be seeing snow or sleet — we did on Sunday. But inside our house, it is warm and snug as we open up our mail and find spring book bounty in abundance. Spring is the season for new cookbooks that will take us to...
by Brian | May 9, 2019 | Really Simple, TBT
Today is a little raw in New York City. Spring has yet to really arrive and summer is a month away. I am confused. As usual. But, but, I can go to the market and get spring ingredients from California and Florida. Thank God for cargo jets. Here’s a spring tart...
by Brian | May 9, 2019 | Cookbook Review
This week’s TBT Cookbook Review features a very healthy treatise from 2002. The subtitle of A Fistful of Lentils is Syrian-Jewish Recipes for Grandma Fritzie’s Kitchen. Author Jennifer Felicia Abadi grew up with two Jewish grandmothers: one from Russia, one...
