by Brian | Jun 18, 2019 | Recipes, Restaurant Reviews
I know the picture is not quite the best, but think of it as real-time journalism. This weekend, we were celebrating our wedding anniversary: the 33rd. It’s a personal record for us, for each of us. We traveled to Manchester, Vermont to see the peonies at...
by Brian | Jun 17, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Unprecedented. Bake by Rory Macdonald is a baking book unlike any you have ever seen. It is, for certain, a baking book that you must have in your kitchen. Rory knew by age twelve he wanted to be a chef. He’s followed that path around the world, at key...
by Brian | Jun 17, 2019 | Recipes
A couple of weeks ago I posted an artichoke recipe from Piedmont [foot of the mountains] in Northern Italy. That recipe for Artichokes with Egg and Lemon Sauce surprised me: eggs and artichokes? Well, here is another surprise from Piedmont: Cavour Artichokes...
by Brian | Jun 14, 2019 | Recipes
Suzi was doing her semi-annual labor of love: fashioning a new menu for her cooking school, Cooking by the Book. It’s the only fully hands-on cooking school in New York City, so she has to find recipes that a team of twenty can prepare in about one hour in our...
by Brian | Jun 13, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
It seems impossible that this TBT cookbook appeared five years ago. Suzi and I turn to books by the Caldesis almost every day. This book on preserving is in a class by itself, an encyclopedia of all the preserving techniques that mankind has fashioned. It will...
