Many thanks to all our members
We just wanted to take some time out to thank all of our wonderful members from around the world. We're blessed by your contributions, enthusiasm, and, perhaps most of all, your shared conviction that cookbooks and…
2012
Computers may help (replace?) chefs create new recipes
We thought this article from NPR provides ample food for thought as we head into the new year. In Computers May Someday Beat Chefs at Creating Flavors We Crave, NPR profiles an IBM food-computer project, "Culinary…
Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Good luck meals for the new year
One of our favorite blogs, Sandy's Chatter, has a fun entry today. She takes a global survey of good luck meals that people cook to start the new year. We were aware of the classic Southern good luck dish with…
10 ways to identify a good restaurant
As New Year's Eve approaches, it may strike many as a good time to try out a new restaurant - bring in the new with the new. Here's an informative list we found at the Amateur Gourmet that may help: 10 Signs You're in a…
Celebrating leftovers
According to The Guardian, food's latest hot trend may be leftovers. First, however, we need to expand the definition of leftovers. Leftovers are not just food that has been cooked and not eaten, but the food parts that…
These food quotes impart wisdom in just a few words
The attraction of quotes is how truly wise just a few words can be. In that spirt, here are some of our favorite food quotes from a list - compiled by Buzz Feed - of the 24 Best Quotes Ever About Food: Everything you…
The best time-saving tips of 2012
The Kitchn is running a series of "Best of 2012" articles, and we particularly liked this one, Homemade in a Hurry: 15 Time-Serving Tips. From coring a head of lettuce in 3 seconds, to four ways to soften butter, to…
Best of the Best Cookbooks of 2012
... and the winner is Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi After last year's tie for first place, this year we have a very clear winner. For the second year running Yotam Ottolenghi takes the crown, this time…
3 food & drink apps for your consideration
Food- and drink-related apps are becoming better and better. Here are three that have been singled out in the press recently that we thought you might be interested in: The Kitchn recently published, This New Italian…
10 Books for Giving
What makes a cookbook good for giving? Well, it's a little different from what makes a cookbook good in the kitchen. First of all, looks are more important. It has to have great design, and feel like a quality…
Well-meaning but disastrous kitchen experiments
The Guardian has an amusing story this week, When kitchen experiments go wrong. It's an equal-opportunity article, since it includes a number of stories about well-known chefs, male and female, as well as home cooks. As…
Making it and giving it.
Like everybody else, I've had a hard time moving on since Friday. It's the least cheery Christmas I can remember - yet there are still trees to trim, Santas to impersonate, huge meals to prepare. Meanwhile, the…