No Note-For-Note Cooking Here

One of my stated culinary New Year’s resolutions was to make more use of my many hundreds of cookbooks and actually bother to try more recipes from them, more or less as they are written. And I have actually mostly kept to that. Okay, the Spaghetti with Creamed Eggplant and Walnuts recipe counts more as […]

Book Review: Modern Asian Flavors

Most of my current focus in building a library of Chinese cookbooks has been on out-of-print or difficult to find volumes. However, now and again, a new cookbook comes out that I find to be intriguing, so I pick it up and see what it is about. Modern Asian Flavors: A Taste of Shanghai, by […]

A Baker’s Dozen of My Favorite Cookbooks

Meg, one of the chefs at Too Many Chefs, asked me a couple of posts back to suggest a few cookbooks to her, as she felt that she needed more. As one who lives in a house littered with thousands of books, hundreds of them cookbooks, I am happy to oblige her request, though I […]

Cookbook Review: From Curries to Kebabs: Recipes from the Indian Spice Trail

Madhur Jaffrey is a Devi of the kitchen. Even if she came to cookery later in her life (as did Julia Child, for that matter), she found her calling. And all started when she was a college student abroad, alone, and homesick for her mother’s cooking. She learned to cook originally to feed herself, but […]

In Memory of Edna Lewis, Southern Cookbook Author and Wonderful Human Being

I looked at the New York Times today and found out that not only has Hackett dropped out of the Senate race here in Ohio (I was planning on working for his campaign) , but Edna Lewis has died. It is truly a bummer of a Valentine’s Day for me. I wrote an announcement over […]

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