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Category Archives: Authors / Book Reviews
Last Minute Gift – “How to Cook Everything – iPad”
The How to Cook Everything iPhone/Ipad application, is based on the best-selling book by Mark Bittman. I’ve seen it advertised on Culinate.com for ages, but haven’t gotten a chance to try it until recently. From the opening screen, I was impressed. The layout is logical and beautiful. The front page always has new featured recipes, along with a quote from …
The Professional Chef – iPad Version
The Professional Chef, from The Culinary Institute of America, is a classic kitchen reference. You can find any basic cooking technique within its pages. As I started working, it was one of the first cookbooks I purchased. Along with better layout, the new ninth edition of the book features more detailed techniques for novice cooks, and lots more photographs. With over 1200 …
The Paley’s Place Cookbook Hits Store Shelves
There are only a few “celebrity” books that I use on a regular basis: Bouchon, by Thomas Keller, Mustard’s Grill Napa Valley Cookbook, by Cindy Pawlcyn, and a few of the books by Alice Waters of Chez Panise fame. Otherwise, I tend to stick with compilations. The point is, most of this type of cookbooks are just recycled recipes, or so complex I don’t want to bother with them. However, The Paley’s Place Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Pacific Northwest, is one that I am likely to keep close
The Art of Simple Food, by Alice Waters is, quite simply, a bit of a mess…
or so says the Los Angeles Times. Her encyclopedic new book ‘The Art of Simple Cooking’ is more like the ‘Oy of Cooking.’ They aren’t pulling any punches in their review of her newest book. And instead of being the culinary bible for a new generation that I’d hoped for, it feels like nothing more than a tacked- together collection …
I couldn’t pass this one up…
Today in my email from Amazon.com: The Food Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge David Kamp Price: $10.36 Release Date: October 9, 2007 Book Description Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these …
Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days by James and Kay Salter
Life is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days by James and Kay Salter Knopf 2006, $27.95 ISBN 0-307-26496-3 Book Review by Hungry Soul Often memorable moments in life are marked by a meal. Graduation dinners at fancy restaurants. Family recipes used only during the holidays. In my family, vacations are centered around where and what to eat. At breakfast …
Monday Interview: Anya Von Bremzen – The New Spanish Table
“I love this book,” said Anya Von Bremzen, James Beard award-winning author and contributor to Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine and other publications, on her swing through Portland as part of a 25-city tour for her latest work, The New Spanish Table. “This is my fifth book, and it’s got everything that I want in it: really good recipes, …
