Food Pairings and Substitutions

Food Pairings and Substitutions

For all our lives we have lived with our cookbooks. We tag pages, put on stickies, and know some favorite pages. But as time goes on, there can be almost too much to remember. And then there is Google. Just type in “applie pie recipe” and you will have a...
Frozen Lemonade

Frozen Lemonade

Is there a good side to mold? Something beyond penicillin? Yes. Assuming you have access to the outdoors and live somewhere where winter is active. Or, if you have a freezer. Right now, we don’t have a freezer. The seal on our freezer failed. And there was...
Bubbles and Bite for Valentines Day

Bubbles and Bite for Valentines Day

For our Cooking by the Book clients, we just announced a Valentines Day event that you may want to consider. We’d love for you to celebrate the year’s Day of Romance at Cooking by the Book with our special Bubbles and Bites Event. You’ll enjoy a...
How To Pour Champage: A Little Chemistry and Physics

How To Pour Champage: A Little Chemistry and Physics

  On the MSNBC site on the web today I found a piece of science that is important for every drinker of champagne. Scientifically, what is the best way to pour champagne and why? The picture above is a false-colored infrared video shows carbon dioxide emanating from a...

Where Did All the Holiday Posts Go?

I’m sorry. We meant to post like mad this week to supply you with holiday ideas. On Sunday our website hit a technical ditch and we just dug our way out. Technology, like everything, has ups and downs. We don’t think we lost any prior posts but we know we...
Benriner: A Fingerprint Saving Tool

Benriner: A Fingerprint Saving Tool

As the years pass, you remember less and less of your childhood. I have only a few memories of grade school. But there is one searing moment that haunts me. Fifth grade. Audition for the school band. The school district had a roving conductor who came to each school...