by Brian | Nov 6, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Yes, when I was a kid, I liked cartoons and comic books. And I promised myself that however old I got, I would always buy the latest issue of Disney’s Donald Duck. Life happened. Disney got bigger. I got bigger too. My interest in cartoons and comic books...
by Brian | Nov 5, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Really Simple
With each night, we check the thermometer. When will it finally freeze upstate? Cause on that night our mint patch will be history. The same for all our herbs. We have five or six months of freshness and then it’s a long winter. We can get...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2019 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Sometimes you can make a cocktail that is quite, quite complex in flavor. Like my Clementine and Basil Bash. It’s a riff on a drink called the Come on In from Prosecco Made Me Do It by Amy Zavatto. I reviewed Amy’s lovely book last week. Amy’s drink features a...
by Brian | Nov 1, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Crave-Killing Recipes is a distinctive and inspiring cookbook. It is small: just 25 recipes. But those recipes, written by fitness expert Marie Blanchard, are designed to make a difference in your life. Ordinarily, the foods we love are fatty or sweet or both...
by Brian | Nov 1, 2019 | Recipes, Thanksgiving
And how big is your Thanksgiving going to be? That picture is from 2017 when the Butterball folks came to Cooking by the Book for two days of Butterball University. They were schooling journalists in every aspect of turkey cooking: how to roast, stuff and even...
