by Brian | Feb 5, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Food History, Menus
Suzen and I have known Corinne Trang for a dozen years. We fell in love with her at first bite, for we did begin cooking from our first evening together. And it was just a dozen years ago when Corinne wrote this classic encyclopedia of Asian cuisine. Essentials...
by Brian | Jan 22, 2015 | Comfort Food, Cookbook Review, Food History, Recipes
It’s time this week’s Throwback Thursday Cookbook Review, and this week the selection is personal. I remember 1987 very well. Suzen and I moved to NYC from Boston, found our Tribeca loft and very early on began the steps that led to Cooking by the Book. In...
by Brian | Jan 16, 2015 | Food History, Really Simple
If I say “spaghetti” then what word is triggered in your brain? For many of us, “spaghetti” is synonymous with “meatballs.” Like Macaroni and Cheese, spaghetti and meatballs are inseparable and, of course, universal. The truth is...
by Brian | Jan 8, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Food History, Recipes
This week’s Throwback Thursday cookbook is both old and new. This distinguished encyclopedia of Italian cuisine was first published in 1987 and in 2013 a new and vitally expanded edition was published by Pavillion Books. Author Anna Del Conte may not be widely...
by Brian | Jan 7, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Food History, Recipes, Techniques
Are you a foodie? A sometimes baffled foodie? Like, why are some macaroons made with coconut and others are sandwich cookies made with almonds? And what do either of these things have to do with macaroni? Obviously nothing. Well, actually, you have food cousins there,...
by Brian | Jul 21, 2012 | Food History
I was listening to Diane Rehm yesterday. Her daily two hour radio show on Public Radio has made her a broadcasting icon. It’s a remarkably wonderful show, typically spotlighting a current new item in the first hour and something cultural in the second. So in hour one,...
