by Brian | Feb 26, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Ben Lebus has food in his blood. He grew up with a father who ran an Italian restaurant and learned cooking early in his life with intensity. In college, Ben saw firsthand the challenges college students face in creating good meals on their own: They don’t have time...
by Brian | Feb 25, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You will like this book. More importantly, you will use this book. It is clever and smart and a tool to make your week easier. Everybody eats. Every day. Well, most of us. Suzi and I are foodies and we love to cook. But even we need a break from the kitchen. Trying to...
by Brian | Feb 20, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
This week’;s TBT cookbook is from 2014 and is one I often turn to. When I first got this book, I wnet through, recipe by recipe, and scanned in the ones I “had” to try. Fifty-three of them. I think that’s strong evidence that...
by Brian | Feb 14, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I’m beginning to have new favorite comfort foods. When it comes to Mexican, I have been a taco man all my life. I used to go to Taco Bell for breakfast: 3 tacos and a Pepsi to start the day. And quesadillas? Uh, no. I think I tried them at Taco Bell and, uh, no. Well,...
by Brian | Feb 13, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Now is the time of year when, although the days are getting longer, they are still short and cold. If not frigid and snowy. That gives us some extra time to doddle in the kitchen, fashioning comfort food or, even better, constructing a world class cake....
by Brian | Feb 6, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Ah, the tail end of winter. Mardi Gras is gone. We have Valentine’s Day to look forward to and weeks of cold. Maybe even snow — so little snow this year in NYC I am thinking we might have climate change. It’s a time to sit back with...
