CookShelfFood Online Holidays & Celebrations Recipes
Peppermint is a popular holiday flavor - where would we be without candy canes? And spearmint can also be a popular candy flavor - think gum. Most of us would regard these two flavors as quite different, yet most…
Eater has an intriguing article, "Inspiration and Attribution in Cooking: How and When Should Chefs Credit Their Sources." Traditionally, the guideline was that any recipe had to be credited unless the chef had made…
In a short video over at Serious Eats, Kenji Alt interviews Alton Brown on the future of recipe writing. In just over a minute, Brown mentions several interesting items. Here are two that especially intrigued us: First…
Ah, for the love of baking...There are those of us who love to cook, and those of us who love to bake, and those of us who like to do both, right? I'm one of the latter. Even though bakers and cooks are supposed to have…
Antipasto Holidays & Celebrations
Here's a quick tip from America's Test Kitchen, via the Kitchn, that should come in particularly useful during this period of intense cookie baking. When a recipe calls for softened butter, and we've forgotten to leave…
The New York Times recently published Highlights from the 2012 Vintage in Wine Publishing, singling out three special reference books. Any of these would be a pleasurable gift to give to wine lovers who have all the…
One of the hardest challenges for cooks is to go beyond cookbooks (no matter how great they are) and branch out into experimenting with creating individual recipes, maybe using unusual food combinations. And here is…
As avid cookbook collectors, we're sure that everyone in the EYB community has met with one of two aggravating scenarios. First, there are the recipes that just don't tell you enough. For example, a muffin recipe calls…
We all know that we should eat a lot of fish - not a hardship since fish can be extremely tasty. But you rarely see a discussion regarding one issue with fish - the odor that remains after you cook it. Over at the…
Some time ago there was quite a kerfluffle about cookbook ghostwriters (here's the blog we wrote to refresh your memory). Rachael Ray, in particular, took great umbrage. The Chicago Tribune has brought the subject up…
On NPR yesterday evening, a reporter was speaking with an independent bookstore owner. What was selling? "Cookbooks," the owner replied. Coffee table cookbooks, the kind that never see the inside of a kitchen or the…
Since we ran a Black Friday gift article with ideas from Michael Ruhlman and others last week, it's only appropriate that we acknowledge Cyber Monday - the time that everyone goes online to shop. Of course, now it's…
