by Brian | Sep 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Janie Hibler is a Northwest author of distinction. You can find berry books here and there but nothing has ever matched this 2004 tome. You know this an exceptional book right there in the first chapter: The A-to-Z Berry Encyclopedia. Yes, we all know about...
by Brian | Sep 10, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This 43rd edition of the Pocket Guide is every bit as delicious as those many earlier versions. The intense wine-by-wine, country-by-country descriptions and summaries retain their intense insights. What is new here are some considerations of recent years and a...
by Brian | Sep 9, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You will often find references to the renaissance of different liquors. We have books about rum, whiskey, and, yes, gin. Alcohol, in all its forms, remains vibrantly interesting to people around the world. This book, The World Atlas of Gin, is an...
by Brian | Sep 5, 2019 | Cookbook Review, TBT
Summer will be gone in three weeks. Actually, August was very cool in upstate New York. Fall has been with us for several weeks. To squeeze out the very last of summer, it’s time for some revolutionary hot food. There is life way, way beyond Taco Bell, and this...
by Brian | Sep 4, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Author Ian Buxton is a liquor champion who has written 101 Rums to Try Before You Die. 101 Rums is a handy volume to carry in your ventures in liquor stores as a personal buying assistant. Here’s an equally important book from Ian: 101 Gins to Try Before You...
by Brian | Aug 30, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzi and I spend about five hours a week in our commute from Manhattan to our weekend house in the Catskills. There is often back traffic and we used soothe ourselves by listening to radio, especially the satellite channel devoted to old time radio. We are...
