by Brian | May 24, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Ordinarily my TBT reviews are for books ten or twenty years old. Forgotten treasures. Ah, but today is, not an emergency, but a key day. Memorial Day weekend is upon us. Farmers markets will finally open up in many spots across the land — for those of us...
by Brian | May 23, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This is the first cookbook by Siri Daly and this mother of three young children describes it as her fourth baby. Quite simply, this is just the sort of lovely cookbook we all look for. Interesting recipes designed for even basic skill level, superior food photography...
by Brian | May 22, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You may not recognize the name, Phyllis Good, but perhaps now you will. She’s a best-selling cookbook author with several books and 14 million of them sold. She has a bright smile and round glasses, the sort of person you wished you had for a grandmother. Well, maybe...
by Brian | May 18, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You probably own a sheet pan or two. Or ten or maybe even more. Suzi has a cooking school and about twenty-five of them: quarter sheets, half, and full. Yes, we do have one oven that can take one of those gigantic full sheets. We use them, as you do probably, for...
by Brian | May 17, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
If you open this book, your first sense may be one of loss. Where are the food writers of today that can match Richard Olney? I don’t think they exist, and they may never do so again. Born in Marathon, Iowa, Olney moved to Paris by the time he was 24. He lived in...
by Brian | May 16, 2018 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This book is simple to describe: it’s a perfect beverage tome and something you should buy. Now. Slim but packed with 40 wonderful rosé-based recipes, this book features four classes of drinks: Aperitifs and Sparklers Spritzes and Coolers Slushes and Crushes Punches...
