Cree LeFavour
Cree LeFavour is the author of The New Steak and Poulet, she's run her own baking business and taught writing - so she knows a bit about recipes - creating them and following. In her "Cook Book" Alice B. Toklas admitted…
Susie
Health food, then and now
In the mail the other day came a book whose title struck me as odd: 500 of the Healthiest Recipes and Health Tips You'll Ever Need. I wasn't sure, for a moment, what made it so odd. But then I realized it was that…
Have airplane food, will travel
It's midwinter break, and every other year that means a trip to Arizona to see my favorite in-laws, Grandma and Grandpa B. Unfortunately, it also means a long, cramped, economy flight with only two prospects:…
Labors of love
Along with our own Jane Kelly and 248 others, I attended the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference over the weekend. It was just as I'd hoped--good company, stimulating panel discussions, excellent food. Among the panelists…
Fancy cookies for Valentines big and small.
I have to confess I'm not really that great at holiday food projects. Every year I want to make an Epiphany cake, but never do since we don't follow any ecclesiastical calendar here and I never know when to do it. I…
Just for show
When you have several hundred cookbooks (or even over a thousand, as I know some of you EYBers do!), it's hard to admit that some of your books aren't for actual cooking. But it's true, isn't it? There's at least a…
The matter of exotics
Happy Year of the Dragon, everybody! Today, there are dragons in every Chinatown and every Chinese storefront. There are even dragons in every Chinese restaurant, in the form of xiao long bao ("little dragon buns" or…
Cookbook Lovers Shelf Life With Susie
An ode to culinary bookstores
My son and I spent the last few days in San Francisco, that gastronomic paradise, because I had a couple of book readings and a companion ticket burning a hole in my pocket. What a splendid town for a pair of…
Ron Suhanosky
Our guest cookbook author this month is Ron Suhanosky, author of Pasta Sfoglia and, most recently, The Italian Table. Suhanosky, currently the chef at Nonna's Table on theUpper Eastside, shared his thoughts about…
6:00 timesavers, am and pm.
I'm testing a slow cooker cookbook this week, and it's making me consider (or re-consider) the ways we try to conserve time as cooks. It was only last year that I came to slow cookery, and I instantly loved the…
The winnowing
The first week of January: holiday roundups are over, and after a week of bingeing on festive food I need to get back on my treadmill, which kept getting covered in books throughout December. Time for cookbook cleanup!…
2011: The missing cuisine
The last week of the year has a special gift for the cookbook-obsessed: perspective. From our vantage point at the very end of a long, busy year of food publishing, we can see trends that weren't so obvious before.…