by Brian | Nov 19, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
This is a charming cookbook filled with surprises that twist and turn like the waterways that surround the islands of Scotland. The recipes here are traditional ones and surely ones most of us have never experienced. They present us with a culinary journey teeming...
by Brian | Nov 18, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It’s the end of the year. Holiday season. And the season for very special cookbooks. Some cookbooks really are special. And some are quite exceptional. Ferrandi Paris Chocolate is exceptional. Ferrandi Paris is officially titled The French School of Culinary Arts and...
by Brian | Nov 12, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
We all strive to live a long life. We all want it to be easy and fun to the last minute. Few of us will ever get what we want. Instead, life can be a bit troubled and, since we are eventually destined to die, the things that do kill us can make the final months...
by Brian | Nov 8, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Tel Aviv is an historic city nicknamed The White City because of its thousands of Bauhaus buildings. With under a half million people it is not huge, but it is getting there. We often think of cities as mixtures of concrete, brick, steel and glass. Firm and...
by Brian | Nov 7, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Elizabeth David [1913-1992] was a remarkable woman. She was born into an upper class family and rebelled. In her late teens and twenties, she left England for Paris, studied art, fell in love with a married man, and sailed the Mediterranean with him in a small...
by Brian | Nov 6, 2019 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Yes, when I was a kid, I liked cartoons and comic books. And I promised myself that however old I got, I would always buy the latest issue of Disney’s Donald Duck. Life happened. Disney got bigger. I got bigger too. My interest in cartoons and comic books...
