Galette to the rescue
Traveling during a pandemic can be an exercise in anxiety, but sometimes duty calls. Likewise, cooking in an unfamiliar kitchen, difficult in the best of times, is made worse during this stressful time. I have made a…
Eat Your Books blog archive
This week: Mil hojas; Great British Chefs; cookbook giveaways and previews
While preparing the two Great British Chefs promotions earlier this week, I spent time poring over the Great British Chefs site especially the desserts! For this week's featured online recipe, I chose the GBC Mil hojas…
James Beard Foundation cancels 2020 awards
The James Beard Foundation's annual Chef and Restaurant Awards were initially scheduled to be announced at a gala event in Chicago. After postponing that event and announcing a virtual event, the JBF has effectively…
Quick Bites: Anne Willan
Earlier this month, Anne Willan's latest Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today was published. Anne Willan has more than 50 years of experience as a…
Are chefs embracing nonstick pans for home cooking?
While avid home cooks stock their cupboards with a rainbow of Le Creuset, gorgeous glowing copper pans, and high-dollar triple-ply cookware, restaurant kitchens contain more utilitarian pots and pans, usually plain…
The Great British Chefs Electronic Cookbook Giveaway
Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three ebook copies of the Great British Chefs: 120 Recipes from Britain's Best Chefs by Great British Chefs. In my previous post today, I shared information about the Great…
The Great British Chefs Vegetables - Cookbook Giveaway
Enter our worldwide giveaway to win one of three copies of Great British Chefs: Vegetables: 40 Seasonal Recipes From the UK's Most Exciting Chefs by Great British Chefs. On my honeymoon many years ago, I fell in love…
KitchenAid mixer trivia
My vintage KitchenAid stand mixer has made countless batches of cookies, cakes, and other items. Even though I have a newer and larger KA, I drag out the old one for nostalgia's sake from time to time, and used it for a…
Making do in a pinch
It has always been vexing to find out you are out of a critical ingredient just after you start making a dish, but with the pandemic throwing off shopping routines, it's even more disconcerting. That is why knowing what…
Food news antipasto
Interested in the juncture between cookbooks and history? A new publicly available searchable database called The Sifter might be right up your alley. The Sifter, conceived by food historian Barbara Wheaton, "is…
Ten European dishes that chefs think everyone should try
Although the EU has drawn together much of Europe into a common market, the food remains more diverse, with each country and even regions within countries having their signature dishes, styles and ingredients. The…
This week: Let's talk fermenting, recipes, cookbook giveaways, and previews
What is fermentation? Fermentation is a process that produces chemical changes in the natural environment in which an organism lives through the action of enzymes (proteins that accelerate chemical reactions). In the…