by Brian | Dec 15, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Twenty years ago this little book appeared celebrating the cookie recipes of Sweet Maria’s Bakery in Waterbury, Connecticut. If you drive in the Northeast, you want to avoid Interstate 95, because it is a parking lot. So, many of us have discovered I-84...
by Brian | Dec 14, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
How do you write a cookbook review for a tome with over 700 pages? And that, curiously, has only 70 recipes? It’s easy. This is the best cookbook of 2016. One of the best in the past decade. If you have room for only a couple of cookbooks in your life,...
by Brian | Dec 13, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
With an empire of over twenty restaurants and a portfolio of a dozen plus cookbooks, Alain Ducasse is as prolific as he is wonderful. Suzi and I can still remember a Paris lunch fifteen years ago, the truffle tasting lunch, where we experienced a meal that was...
by Brian | Dec 9, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you have never visited Asheville, North Carolina, you might want to plan that trip. Whenever you can find time to drive through idyllic mountains to an iconic American town. Any season in Asheville will be a tourist treat. It’s small, hilly, packed...
by Brian | Dec 8, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Elinor Klivans is a name you may not know — you should — but it is quite possible you have tasted her food. For over 20 years, Elinor has been a prolific author of baking books: cupcakes, cookies, and cakes fill her life and her wonderful books.Many, many...
by Brian | Dec 6, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I know. You hear the word “cleanse” and you think that something medical is at play. And yet, on the TV sports show Inside the NFL, former pro quarterback Boomer Esiason is there describing his cleansing progress. Well if he can do it then...
