Kids in the Kitchen!
Every once in a while I like to catch up with what's going on with kids' cookbooks. I've looked at cookbooks for little kids (both story-based and picture-based) and cookbooks meant for teens. And, of course, family…
2014
Much better than a tie
On Sunday, fathers in many countries will open the obligatory Father's Day present and pull out a tie, a set of golf club covers, or maybe a new tool with an LED light on it. Being good-natured, loving fathers, they…
Food rivalries
June 7 was National Doughnut Day in the U.S., with many bakeries offering free doughnuts to customers. This food "holiday" prompted Food & Wine magazine to discuss a long-standing debate: which is the better doughnut,…
The rating game
Yesterday's post about Nate Silver's quest to find the best burrito in the U.S., and through that process gain insight on how much we should rely on crowdsourced reviews, brings up the subject of trust. Many of us…
Finding the best burrito just got serious
Nate Silver, probably best known for accurately predicting the results of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, has turned the sights of his analytical website FiveThirtyEight to food. Burritos, to be precise. Yesterday…
Featured Cookbooks & Recipes
Whether they are from cookbooks, magazines, or blogs, all the recipes we feature in these weekly round-ups have online links so you can add any of them to your Bookshelf. Even if you have a free membership! The EYB…
Delicious tomatoes in the winter: more than just a fantasy?
Supermarkets teem with produce year-round, with crops shipped from as far away as another hemisphere allowing apples, grapes, peppers, and other foods to be purchased during any season. Greenhouse-grown vegetables also…
Gin it up this summer
Just as some foods are good matches for a particular season--hearty stews in winter, cool salads in summer--some liquors also feel right at certain times of the year. Warm weather calls for light, refreshing drinks, and…
Stalemate - is the fridge bad for bread?
Freshly baked bread - it's one of the simple pleasures in life. It's also one of the most ephemeral, since the best breads are also the ones that go stale the quickest. Usually we turn to the refrigerator to help keep…
Summer make-ahead food
So I've discovered a new favorite summer breakfast! I found it in The Family Cooks, which is the latest adorably packaged, make-your-family-eat-better idea book. It's "Fresh, Fruity Summer Porridge" - basically a kind…
Chefs' first food memories
If you think that many chefs had poignant or powerful experiences with food when they were young that influenced their career path, you would be correct. Thanks to this short video from The Guardian, you can learn about…
Cookbook giveaway - The Homemade Flour Cookbook
How many times have you been excited about a recipe, only to discover that it called for a type of flour that you didn't have? Or perhaps you picked up a bag of a nut or legume flour in the market and then wondered what…