by Brian | Dec 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
This year I've posted over 200 cookbook reivews here at Cooking by the Book. I try to do one a day, but the incoming tide of new cookbooks can be overwhelming. This past year has seen dozens and dozens of wonderful cookbook ideas. I've sort...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Suzi and I had the pleasure of having Jacques Burdick as a friend. We enjoyed many meals together and loved receiving the small gifts of French food he would bring with him. To this day we mourn never having gotten his tomato jam recipe. Just eye-opening amazing....
by Brian | Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Oh, how could I have made this mistake. If my wife finds out, … Friday was National Cookie Day. I flubbed. No cookie recipe. So, to make up for this blunder, here is a cookie describe by author Ellen Jackson as an Oreo with a Ph.D. Now, with that labeling, how...
by Brian | Dec 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Edd Kimber is a British baking fanantic. He started as a kid, spends lots of time in France doing research, and just happens to be the winner of the first season of The Great British Bake Off. In this lovely book, Edd takes those treats stacked in patisserie windows,...
by Brian | Nov 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our upstate house was designed around our culinary life. A dining room faces the stream. Our kitchen the meadow. Just outside the kitchen is our herb garden we plant on Memorial Day and use until deep into the fall. We had plans for the garden this year, this...
by Brian | Nov 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
Suzi and I hope that your holiday is happy and filled with delightful flavors. We are snuggled in upstate New York, cooking, hoping for a little snow and getting ready for Friday. Thirty years ago we met, fell in love very quickly, married and began our kitchen...
