by Brian | Apr 4, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review form 2014 will give you a heads up on the coming season of fruit. You can use this book for months, months of fruit pleasure. Sherri Brook Vinton is an expert in two things: preserving foods in wonderful recipes and...
by Brian | Apr 3, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
While Suzi and I pack for our trip to Utah and New Mexico, I’m thinking of food to carry along. What better place to look for cookie ideas than in the lovely, and award-winning, The Everyday Baker, from Abigail Johnson Dodge. Here’s a review from...
by Brian | Mar 28, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It’s Thursday and time for a TBT Cookbook Review. Let’s do the third of the four books in the Time-Life Series Flavor of Italy from 1999. I’ve already written about the volumes Emilia Romagna and Piedmont. Time today for Tuscany. Sicily? Next week. It’s...
by Brian | Mar 26, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
As you know, Suzi and I are devoted fans of Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi. They have ten cookbooks plus two London-based restaurants and a cooking school. They are busy people with a passion for quality and authenticity. This book, from four years ago, is...
by Brian | Mar 25, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Oh, author Yasmin Newman is deadly serious. You are going to eat them all. Or try. Lordy, what a book. I can’t imagine all the effort expended, but I’m sure Yasmin had fun. She has walked the city, surveyed countless sweet spots, and now has documented...
by Brian | Mar 21, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
Today’s TBT Cookbook Review features the biggest book in our Pastry Week from five years ago. This massive book will get you underway with your spring baking. Yes, spring is here and now you begin to limber up, lift this very heavy book, and find something...