by Brian | Dec 19, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2015, in June, I wrote about Christmas. I had just received this clever book Do-Ahead Christmas. Now, it is 12/19 and in just six days will be eating Christmas dinner. There’s still some time to cook ahead to make that day less culinarily challenging. And...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you see The Cookie Collection in a bookstore, you’ll want to pick it up. That typography, heavy sans serif on a slant, will capture you eye for sure. The sandwich cookie on the cover is going to make your hand move and pick the book up. Get the book. Take it home....
by Brian | Dec 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2008 Diane Morgan wrote The New Thanksgiving Table, a rework of her milestone 2001 volume The Thanksgiving Table. Suzi and I turn to both books with regularity. I know, Thanksgiving is past us but there is almost a month of the holiday season before us. Not...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In retrospect, I suppose I was being cruel. My elderly grandmother would bake cookies and as a kid I would help her. She’d count the baked product and be puzzled, “I’m supposed to have 48 but there are only 45. I don’t understand.” I was sneaking and eating the...
by Brian | Dec 9, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Sometimes, not often, but sometimes there comes a book that will truly transform how you eat. Or drink. How to Drink With Drinking by Fiona Beckett is just that book. And a timely one for this holiday season. The book’s subtitle explains it all: celebratory...
by Brian | Dec 5, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Four over four decades Betty Rosbottom has been an exceptional culinary figure. Known equally her teaching, food writing and cookbook authoring, she has offered us fresh and vibrant recipe ideas that offer the ultimate in pleasure. And, yes, excitement. This book,...