by Brian | Mar 20, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Sometimes the path to someone writing a cookbook or opening a restaurant has a few twists. They start out as law students or they are in a mathematics Ph.D. program or … You’ve seen stories of all kinds here on this blog before. Charming and interesting...
by Brian | Mar 15, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
With St Patrick’s Day upon us this Sunday, I went in search of Irish cookbooks. This book, Real Irish Food by David Bowers, is a little gem that I have not written about before There are 150 recipes here that span the full array of Irish food. You’ll...
by Brian | Mar 14, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
Published in 1993, this was one of Michele Scicolone’s first cookbooks. If you go to Amazon, the prices for copies now vary widely for this paperback: 8 used from $4.30, 4 new from various sites at $79.95 and Amazon’s own copy for a mere $150.79. I...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Supper is very important. So is this book. For thirteen years Clodagh McKenna has graced us with five lovely cookbooks, brimming with personality and targeted towards celebrations through the year or your meals through the day. Clodagh is exquisitely...
by Brian | Mar 8, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Gargantuan. And great. Let’s Eat France! is a monumental assembly of recipes, facts, and figures. It is big: 5 ½ pounds, over 400 pages that measure an over-sized 10 X 13 ½ inches. That extra surface area is not devoted to “white space.” No every square inch of space...
by Brian | Mar 7, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Last week’s TBT Cookbook Review was for a book, Piedmont, in the Time Life series Flavors of Italy. Suzi and I now have all four of the books in the series [two came this week], so I can post #2 of the four: Emilia Romagna. The provinces of this region...
