Supersize your pies
When planning a holiday dinner, it's often difficult to settle on a dessert. Pies are traditional, but if you have a large crowd gathering around your dinner table it can be a chore to make enough of them to ensure…
2016
White truffle bonanza
White truffle fans, rejoice. An excellent growing season with plenty of rain has created a bumper crop of white truffles in Italy's Tanaro river basin, home to the famous Alba variety of the truffle. Not only is the…
Cookbook Giveaway - The Gourmet Kitchen
In The Gourmet Kitchen: Recipes from the Creator of Savory Simple home-cooked meals are elevated with unique and bold flavors. Jennifer Farley, the author, is also the creator of the blog, Savory Simple (451 recipes…
The Gourmet Kitchen - Jennifer Farley
In The Gourmet Kitchen: Recipes from the Creator of Savory Simple home-cooked meals are elevated with unique and bold flavors. Jennifer Farley, the author, is also the creator of the blog, Savory Simple (451 recipes…
Cookbooks of November - Part 2
There are still more great books coming this month and today I share a few more highlights. My first post dished on nine titles that range from Southern breakfast to how to master the sous vide at home so be sure to…
The cookbook market defies predictions
Just a few years ago, cookbook industry professionals predicted a doom and gloom scenario for the genre. Lorena Jones, vice president and imprint publisher at Ten Speed Press, called it "a prevailing sense of doom."…
2017 food trends according to Waitrose
As we get close to the end of the year, predictions about what will be the "next big thing" are being formulated. The Waitrose grocery chain has just weighed in on what to expect in 2017 by providing the results of its…
The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs - Padma Lakshmi
The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World by Padma Lakshmi with Judith Sutton and Kalustyan's was released this September. Kalustyan's is a specialty food store in New York…
Cookbook Giveaway - The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs
The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World was inspired by Padma Lakshmi's life traveling the world and brings together the world's spices and herbs in a comprehensive…
In a pickle: a guide to resources for fermenting and pickling
The art of curing and pickling foods is more popular now than any time since prior to the advent of refrigeration. Finding good sources to begin either of the two processes can be confusing, but luckily Food Republic…
Preparing for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving will be upon us in no time and our friend, Rick Rodgers, is riding in on his white horse (or donning his apron carrying a perfect turkey) to save the day. He won't actually arrive at your house with a…
Kitchens of the future
Sous-vide cooking. Internet-connected refrigerators. Remote thermometers that send text messages about your food. All of these innovations promise new ways to work in the kitchen. Some are more revolutionary than…