CookShelfTwo news items recently caught our attention - one good news (for many of us, at least) and one sad. On the good news front, Salt at NPR reports that drinking a moderate amount of wine helps women prevent bone loss: "A…
Every cook needs a spatula for so many things - cooking, scraping out bowls, gentle folding. And this wide variety of tasks that it's called on to perform often means you need a wide variety of spatulas - a firm,…
Over at the Huffington Post, Meathead (aka Dr. Greg Blonder) tackles one of the major barbecue legends - that grilling a whole chicken on top of an open beer can produce succulent, moist, delicious chicken. Using quite…
In 2005, Jane and Michael Stern published Roadfood, an adoring and adorable guide to dives and obscure eateries across America. I loved the Sterns' vision of a life lived driving from one delicious thing to the next…
There's a new food magazine that's creating a lot of attention. Lucky Peach is a quarterly magazine about food and writing, described on their website as follows: " Lucky Peach is a new journal of food writing,…
In the Guardian Sybil Kapoor recently discussed a reissuance of Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food, a history of English food in the last century. She couldn't help but notice the similarity between a particularly…
On Sara Moulton's website, she has an interesting article that's creating some buzz in the food world. Whereas cookbooks, videos, and blogs have - at least for the last 10 years - argued that home cooks should always…
In a recent blog, we posted Food52's top 10 essential cookbooks. The posting inspired us to look at our own site and statistics. However, we ranked cookbooks by authors, looking at how many of our members owned a…
Hot dogs are synonymous with summer - at least here in the United States - but sausages are also world-wide, so we thought this article from Leslie Hatfield at the Huffington Post, All About Hot Dogs: Kosher…
Kitchen Gardeners International, the terrific local-food organization whose advocacy helped to establish the White House vegetable garden, used to run a wonderful event called Food Independence Day. Folks from all over…
The New York Times has a recent article, 'When Local Sourcing Means Aisle 12' that helps bring some perspective to the constant media drumbeat to buy all local, all organic, all farmers' market, all the time. They…
Over at Food Republic they've reprinted an essay from the New Yorker, How Whole Foods Created A New Breed of Shopper. As Tom Roston writes, "In my darker moments, I imagine what it might be like to live through an alien…
