by Brian | Aug 9, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Published in 2013 and first reviewed here in 2014, this book is, well, a peachy treasure. It is one of those niche cookbooks that you’ll treasure and that you will use year after year. Since it is high peach season, you might want to sample the treats of The Perfect...
by Brian | Jul 19, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, Jenny Baker was a prominent British cookbook author with a half dozen tomes devoted to her dream country, France. Even Diana Henry has written about Simple French Cuisine, calling it a forgotten gem:...
by Brian | Jul 13, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Some of us come from large, extended families. Some of us from smaller ones. I never met either of my grandfathers. And my parents were never able to convey any sense of the character of those men. “Grandfather” is an empty word for me. If I had my druthers, if I...
by Brian | Jul 12, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You may well know the name Lynne Rossetto Kasper. If you listen to NPR, her voice must surely have come through your speakers. Her radio program, The Splendid Table, was a weekend joy — the program continues but after 20 years as a gracious host, Lynne stepped aside...
by Brian | Jul 12, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
What gives a dish, say Kung Pao Chicken, its punch? Chile peppers to be sure, but exactly what part of the peppers? The skins, those seeds, … It is the chemical capsaicin, which happens to be found in the rib and white pith of the peppers. I never knew that the...
by Brian | Jul 10, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There is always a first time, and it happened with this book. I was working my way through it, page by page, marking recipes with stickies. I had used a lot of stickies when I finally got to page 31. I don’t quite remember, but I think I actually gasped. I took the...
