by Brian | Mar 6, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Marti Buckley has made one of the most lovely life transitions possible. She is from Alabama, no dispersions there, but now has lived for eight years in the Spanish culinary capital of San Sebastián. That city of food is located in Basque country, a land...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You will love this cookbook. Love it. Particularly if you are camping. But if you never set foot outdoors, ever, you still want the charming and flavor intense recipes in this book. Authors Marnie Hanel and Jen Stevenson won an IACP award for their earlier book The...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Just outside of Copenhagen, there is the world-famous restaurant Noma. It’s a castle of both great food preparation and great recipe development. In this massive volume, 450 pages, Noma give us perspective on the role of fermentation in cooking. Oh, you don’t...
by Brian | Mar 1, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
DK Publishing is famous for their large books of infographics devoted to all kinds of topics. Here’s one for you: The Science of Cooking. It’s 250 pages filled with information, all formatted with wonderful graphics that educate and entertain. How many cheeses are...
by Brian | Feb 28, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 1999, Time Life released a new series of cookbooks: Flavors of Italy. They were working with an Italian publisher and I believe the project ended after only four books: Piedmont, Sicily, Emilia Romagna, and Tuscany. Suzi and I have two of them, with...
by Brian | Feb 27, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There is this belief, an urban myth I suggest, that if you go vegan or gluten-free, you are going to lead a compromised culinary life. Now, I will admit that early vegan and gluten-free cookbooks left much to be desired. Much. The books were not appealing, the...
