CookShelfIn many different posts over the past three years I have mentioned traveling vicariously through cooking. Cookbooks and recipe blogs allows us to experience foods - or at least their approximation - of places we'll…
From the James Beard Award winner, Top Chef Masters contestant, and acclaimed author comes Big Bad Breakfast - an ode to the joys and rituals of the Southern breakfast, with 75 recipes inspired by the author's popular…
Big Bad Breakfast, John Currence's latest title, will have you rethinking breakfast in a most delicious way. This is not breakfast at your local diner - this is breakfast on high octane. The James Beard Award winning…
One of the biggest negative restaurant reviews of the past year involved Thomas Keller's lauded New York City restaurant Per Se. Back in January, Pete Wells (who we discussed earlier this week) downgraded the…
Palestine on a Plate is a beautiful cookbook written by Joudie Kalla, an accomplished Palestinian chef. In this vibrant book, she showcases food from her mother's kitchen with ingredients that were used by generations…
Two recent announcements have shaken the foundations of Britain's most popular television program. The first announcement was that the Great British Bake Off (GBBO) was moving from the public-service BBC to commercial…
Kathy Gunst is a food writer and the author of numerous cookbooks. She is the "Resident Chef" on Here and Now on WBUR, the NPR station in Boston. Kathy was nominated for a James Beard Foundation award in 2000 for her…
Fall is upon us and there's no better way to welcome it than with heartwarming bowls of homemade soup. In Kathy Gunst's new title, Soup Swap, soup lovers will find 60 recipes, featuring such classics as creamy Tomato…
When a prominent medical publication like The New England Journal of Medicine publishes a story that links a substance to a detrimental health condition, people take notice. Dietary and lifestyle changes are often based…
Marie Holm is a Danish food writer and cookbook author with a mission to bring back puddings. Her book Quivering Desserts & Other Puddings is presently out in Danish, English and German and she was recently filmed for…
Have you ever tasted a real homemade custard pudding? And no, we don't mean the one that comes from a packet, but a beautiful, trembling cream dessert made the old fashioned way with eggs, sugar, milk and cream. In…
A world class fine dining restaurant can live or die based on a poor review - especially when that review comes from a prestigious outlet like The New York Times. So what is it like to bear this level of responsibility…
