CookShelfKathy Gunst is a food writer and the author of numerous cookbooks. She is the "Resident Chef" on Here and Now on WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. Kathy was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award in 2000 for her…
Fall is upon us and there's no better way to welcome it than with heartwarming bowls of homemade soup. In Kathy Gunst's new title, Soup Swap, soup lovers will find 60 recipes, featuring such classics as creamy Tomato…
Marie Holm is a Danish food writer and cookbook author with a mission to bring back puddings. Her book Quivering Desserts & Other Puddings is presently out in Danish, English and German and she was recently filmed for…
Have you ever tasted a real homemade custard pudding? And no, we don't mean the one that comes from a packet, but a beautiful, trembling cream dessert made the old fashioned way with eggs, sugar, milk and cream. In…
A realization occurred to me recently - if there is one chef that could compare to Julia Child, it would be Jacques Pépin. There are many celebrity chefs in today's reality saturated cooking media but very few names…
Nadiya Hussain, the latest winner to depart the Great British Bake Off train, has released her first cookbook aptly entitled Nadiya's Kitchen - Over 100 Simple and Delicious Family Recipes. Being the great cookbook…
One might be puzzled why an Australian, by way of New Zealand, named Barry McDonald could be qualified to write a cookbook on how to eat Italian. The answer to that query is simple: McDonald identifies as Italian and is…
From the moment I released Tarts from its humble brown shipping envelope, I was smitten by its pure artistic beauty. I immediately judged this book by the cover - truly the best word to describe it is stunning. Stunning…
Ken Forkish's new book, The Elements of Pizza, is the new definitive book on the art of pizza. Following the wild success of his first book, Flour Water Salt Yeast, the owner of three Portland, Oregon eating…
Judy Joo, host of the Cooking Channel's Korean Food Made Simple, has written a cookbook by the same name (recipe index here). In her cooking show, Joo travels Korea to sample its dishes and then transforms them into…
Annie Rigg is a freelance food stylist and a prolific cookbook author. Her latest endeavor, Summer Berries & Autumn Fruits: 120 Sensational, Sweet & Savory Recipes appears to be the most beautiful of her collection, in…
I fell in culinary love with Floyd Cardoz while watching Season 3 of Top Chef Masters. How had this New York chef who cooks with bold flavors not been on my radar? As is my modus operandi, I went directly to Amazon and…
