CookShelfThe first day of spring is celebrated in many parts of the MidEast as the New Year (in Persian, "Nourouz"), a time of rebirth and renewal. Donia Bijan's new cookbook, Maman's Homesick Pie, introduces us to homecooking,…
How better to celebrate the first day of spring than with an asparagus recipe. This recipe for Absurdly Addictive Asparagus won Food 52's Best Asparagus Recipe last year, earning such accolades as "Oh yeah, you've made…
I'm sure many know about CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) projects. For those who don't, here are the basics: a farmer offers for sale a certain number of shares to the public. Typically the share consists of a box…
Debbie Koenig has a new cookbook out Parents Need to Eat Too. In the Huffington Post today she explains why she is quitting her job (well almost) as chef to her fussy 5 year-old son.
I just saw a funny tweet where chef Andrew Carmellini owns up to the important role his co-writer played in the writing of his two cookbooks. If only all cookbook "authors" were this honest. Though in full disclosure,…
Gwyneth Paltrow has added her voice to the chorus of cookbook authors denying they use ghostwriters. It is interesting though that her book My Father's Daughter was used to illustrate the article in the New York Times…
Over on Serious Eats, Leah Douglas has posted a review of the book, How Carrots Won the Trojan War (Curious but True Stores of Common Vegetables) by Rebecca Rupp. While the review is mixed, if nothing else this book has…
Heston ruminates in the Financial Times on what the Olympics will mean for London. He also explains how he and Simon Hulstone, a young chef he mentored, have developed a new menu for British Airways, an Olympics…
With the release of the new iPad, other innovations have received little attention. But the recent pizza expo in Las Vegas-attended by 10,000 people-highlighted some fun developments in the world of pizza. So are pizza…
We appreciate that everyone might not love the classic St. Patrick's dish-corned beef and cabbage. Over at Serious Eats, they're producing a Guinness Week of recipes. This Guinness stout beef stew may please your…
Yesterday we noted a fascinating New York Times article, I Was a Cookbook Ghostwriter, by Julia Moskin that revealed the extent to which cookbook authors don't write or test their recipes. The article has gone viral so…
Susie reviews in the Boston Globe a new book Notes from a Kitchen which documents the obsessions of 10 different chefs. There is just one recipe, for a cocktail, with 14 pages of instructions. The book costs $225 on…
