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How to Cook Without a Book
Along the same lines of Ratio, there’s How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart (Broadway, 2000) by Pam Anderson, author of The Perfect Recipe series. Each...
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Ratio
The more that I study why and how people cook at home, the more that I understand the importance of a book such as Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Scribner, 2009). Noted...
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IACP Book Awards finalists announced
The finalists for the International Association of Culinary Professionals were announced this week. The contest includes two divisions, one for cookbooks and another for culinary journalism known as...
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Salade Niçoise
I first encountered Salade Niçoise in a romance novel, when a beautiful protagonist perched at a table under a striped umbrella on an immaculate beach in Cannes waiting for a murky character. The...
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The Cooking Crisis: How to Get People Off the Couch and Into the Kitchen?
This weekend, Mark Bittman wrote a terrific piece in The New York Times titled “Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?” The arguments and premise — that no matter how you measure it, home cooking is more...
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Who really “writes” celebrity cookbooks? On the NY Times “ghost writer”...
A story “I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter” in The New York Times last week went in detail about how some celebrity chefs rely on ghostwriters to help them get their books in shape for publication. The...
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Friday Reads: Women & Cookbooks
This week, I’m continuing to barrel through research on gin and dining habits of the 1700s. But my research on foods of this era led me to an interesting book that I started a couple of days ago, Eat...
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Friday Reads: How to Cook Everything plus win tickets to Mark Bittman in Seattle
Here’s the trouble with artichokes. No one knows what to do with them. Eggplants suffer a similar dilemma. When I’ve interviewed home cooks about why they end up relying on processed foods, it’s not...
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Friday Reads: Roots & Meat
Two exceptional food authors are coming to town for the Chef’s Collaborative National Sustainable Food Summit, each armed with an extraordinary new (and hefty) book from the far ends of the food...
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Hungry for Words? We are, too.
The fruits of Copygate 2013. Last week, I turned in my third book to Viking/Penguin! They haven’t said they hate it or fired me or whatever the equivalent would be for an author. After months of...
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Dishin’ It With Author Joe Yonan (Plus, Meet Joe and Get a Signed Copy of His...
I’m a big fan of Joe Yonan, the food editor for The Washington Post. We met years ago at an International Association of Culinary Professionals conference. During the course of the weekend, I’d helped...
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