by Brian | Jan 2, 2020 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, TBT
It is January 3rd. The holidays are over. Right? Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The real holidays are the NFL playoffs that extend into the Super Bowl in February. Will you be drinking? Then here is an excellent guide for you and your fellow fans. If you are...
by Brian | Dec 20, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I can guarantee that if you add this book to your collection, you will use it at least 12 times in the coming year. Yes, once a month. Because this book is organized around a full meal, one complete meal for each month. Each meal has a collection of recipes from...
by Brian | Dec 19, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2015, in June, I wrote about Christmas. I had just received this clever book Do-Ahead Christmas. Now, it is 12/19 and in just six days will be eating Christmas dinner. There’s still some time to cook ahead to make that day less culinarily challenging. And...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you see The Cookie Collection in a bookstore, you’ll want to pick it up. That typography, heavy sans serif on a slant, will capture you eye for sure. The sandwich cookie on the cover is going to make your hand move and pick the book up. Get the book. Take it home....
by Brian | Dec 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In 2008 Diane Morgan wrote The New Thanksgiving Table, a rework of her milestone 2001 volume The Thanksgiving Table. Suzi and I turn to both books with regularity. I know, Thanksgiving is past us but there is almost a month of the holiday season before us. Not...
by Brian | Dec 10, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
In retrospect, I suppose I was being cruel. My elderly grandmother would bake cookies and as a kid I would help her. She’d count the baked product and be puzzled, “I’m supposed to have 48 but there are only 45. I don’t understand.” I was sneaking and eating the...
