by Brian | Jun 20, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review is a window on a new world. We think of Latin, or Mexican, food and come up with a short list of ideas. Now, I do love my tacos and burritos. But as Richard Sandoval shows, there is far, far more. It is summer and time for food from...
by Brian | Jun 19, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There was a time when many, if not most, Americans had home gardens. Serious gardens in some cases, where a good amount of the food supply for the year was carefully fathered. Seeds were sown, the plants watched over and watered and weeded. Not many of us do...
by Brian | Jun 18, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzi and I just celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary. She was the first Jewish girl I ever dated. And the last. Suzi and I immediately clicked because we both love food and already had personal collections of cookbooks. Our merged library now has...
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 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...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Suzi and I will always remember our first morning in Paris with total recall. Well, the afternoon with recall. We had taken a Red Eye from New York and got to Paris around noon. We were dead tired but far too excited to get a nap — which most travel experts...
