by Brian | Nov 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
We all strive to live a long life. We all want it to be easy and fun to the last minute. Few of us will ever get what we want. Instead, life can be a bit troubled and, since we are eventually destined to die, the things that do kill us can make the final months...
by Brian | Nov 8, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Tel Aviv is an historic city nicknamed The White City because of its thousands of Bauhaus buildings. With under a half million people it is not huge, but it is getting there. We often think of cities as mixtures of concrete, brick, steel and glass. Firm and...
by Brian | Nov 7, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Elizabeth David [1913-1992] was a remarkable woman. She was born into an upper class family and rebelled. In her late teens and twenties, she left England for Paris, studied art, fell in love with a married man, and sailed the Mediterranean with him in a small...
by Brian | Nov 6, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Yes, when I was a kid, I liked cartoons and comic books. And I promised myself that however old I got, I would always buy the latest issue of Disney’s Donald Duck. Life happened. Disney got bigger. I got bigger too. My interest in cartoons and comic books...
by Brian | Nov 1, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Crave-Killing Recipes is a distinctive and inspiring cookbook. It is small: just 25 recipes. But those recipes, written by fitness expert Marie Blanchard, are designed to make a difference in your life. Ordinarily, the foods we love are fatty or sweet or both...
by Brian | Oct 31, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
This week’s TBT Cookbook is most timely. This is the time of year when temperatures begin to plunge, the leaves are almost gone, and snow looms on the horizon. Time for a safe retreat to the kitchen for rounds of comfort food. And this book, reviewed in 2014, is...
