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Just for fun this morning, I ran a little EYB search (Occasion: Christmas; Course: Main Course) to see what holiday proteins our cookbooks feature. The results read like some kind of crazy, carnivorous 12 Days of…
We all love "usable" cookbooks, but "usable" is different for everybody. And one big part of "usable," I've come to realize, is the availability of specific ingredients. Each of us carries with us an internal dictionary…
Over the weekend, we got the yearly beefer delivery--1/4 of a steer, or approximately 125 pounds. Some 25 or 30 pounds of that is ground beef, which I *could* just turn into hamburgers or chili. Or, I could hit the new…
Holidays & Celebrations Shelf Life With Susie
If you haven't yet drawn up your menu for Thursday, you've still probably made it as far as pinning down which turkey recipe you're going to use. A lot of us, though, don't bother worrying about the vegetables…
I love this time of year, and not just because of the cool air and the glowing woodstove. No, what's special about early November is that it's Holiday Roundup season, when I get to pick the top 10 cookbooks of the year…
As you may have heard, Halloween came early to New England this weekend, in the form of an out-of-season snowstorm of heroic proportions. It wasn't the the storm that was so bad, but the damage it inflicted on the…
Susie interviews Tracey Zabar about cookbooks, kitchen favorites, and what makes a cookie tick. I confess it: the cookie is my favorite dessert, any time of year, any day of the week, and (if we're being honest here)…
Here's an interesting exercise I thought we could try. Let's take 3 up-to-the-minute cookbooks at random off the pile and see how they address an everyday ingredient. Say shrimp. Shrimp Biryani (Indian Shrimp and Rice),…
Here's a completely new cookbook micro-trend: ground meat. To me, it seems surprising because meat cookbooks have been, if anything, increasingly DIY in recent years. There are smoke-and-cure books, and sausage books,…
Well, I've just about emerged on the other side of my first holiday cookbook roundup, and this time, I was unusually aware of my decision-making process. You know how you're standing in front of the cookbook shelves at…
This week, two cookbooks from the Big Apple got me thinking about what it means to write a cookbook, when you're a famous chef. It's certainly not the first time I've given thought to the subject--most recently, we…
Lately I've noticed a new subgenre in cookbooks, hovering somewhere between "D.I.Y.", "Entertaining," and "Baking/Pastry". It's that tiny category of books focusing on homemade gifts from your kitchen. You know, the box…
