CookShelfThis weekend in several Facebook groups I came across questions regarding using Bundt® pans for other cake recipes and converting recipes. You have my solemn promise that I will not turn into the 24/7 Bundt® lady…
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of East Bay Cooks: Signature Recipes from the Best Restaurants, Bars, and Bakeries by Carolyn Jung I have said this before and I'll say it again - I love the cooks and eats series from…
Attention UK chocoholics: The Guardian's Florence Knight has completed a taste test of many different types of chocolates. She covers milk, dark, chocolate with fruit and nuts, salted chocolates, and even white…
It is bread week or the week when Paul pokes, prods and the Pillsbury doughboy renews his restraining order. Poke my belly, and die. The bakers are down to eleven in number. Cake week saw the demise of Dan. Biscuit week…
When you are invited to someone's house to enjoy a home-cooked meal, do you end up helping in the kitchen? Even when that 'help' is not solicited? When you notice something that you believe is wrong, do you try to…
Those who love to cook and bake also seem to acquire excess cookware and bakeware. My heart skips a beat a new cooking pot or Bundt® pan enters my field of vision and often, more times than not, I make a purchase.…
Does being paid to eat, write about, and edit a compendium of the best tacos sound like a dream job? Then you might be jealous to learn that someone else already got the position: José R. Ralat has been named Taco…
Each day brings deliveries of cookbooks (both review copies and those purchased) and we are busy indexing new titles as quickly as we can! September's new cookbook review will be a doozy but pales in comparison with…
Normally I would save this type of news for the weekly 'antipasto' post, but these two items are too good to wait! The first comes to us from the website Women and Hollywood, which reports that a new Julia Child series…
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Epic Vegan: Wild and Over-the-Top Plant-Based Recipes by Dustin Harder, creator of The Vegan Roadie website. Epic Vegan is pure fun and filled with vibrant recipes that carnivores…
I just read that cottage cheese - a fresh, small curd cheese product packed in tubs and usually found next to sour cream here in the States - is poised to make a comeback. While the product was relegated to self- or…
Enter to win a copy of John Whaite's A Flash in the Pan John Whaite, season 3 winner of The Great British Bake Off in 2012, apparently doesn't squander a moment. In my interview with him last year, he was in training to…
