CookShelfIf you are a fan of the movies as well as a food lover, and if you live in or near Boulder, Colorado, you will love the following news. The seventh annual Flatirons Food Film Festival will take place in Boulder on…
When you start to fiddle with a recipe that is associated with a particular region or group, people take affront. I can't tell you how many times I have witnessed Twitter or Facebook comment fights about subjects like…
It's been a busy year for Samin Nosrat. In the spring she announced that she was writing a follow-up book to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat; she appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Live! program and she released a series of watercolor…
The first week of September begins the rush of cookbook releases: Cook Like a Local, Sababa, Two Peas & Their Pod Cookbook, Bigger Bolder Baking, Umami Bomb, Sour, and The Cookie Collection have hit the shelves. We are…
Enter to win a copy of Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa by Yohanis Gebreyesus and Jeff Koehler If you are in search of a cookbook filled with beautiful photographs of the landscape, cuisine, and…
Cornmeal, grits, polenta: although I have and use all three of these corn products in my pantry, I must confess that I was not aware of the subtle differences between them. That is, until today, when I found an article…
Enter to win a copy of Coconut Lagoon: Recipes from a South Indian Kitchen by Joe Thottungal Joe Thottungal was born in the State of Kerala in South India and in 1998 immigrated to Canada. He is now the chef/owner of…
Two cobs of corn sullenly glare at me from the bottom shelf of my refrigerator. Just over a week ago they were torn from their stalks on a farm a mere four miles away and delivered the same day to a farmers' market,…
Australians living in the Brisbane vicinity have some exciting food events coming up in the next few weeks. Up first is the second annual Moreton Bay Food + Wine Festival, which is scheduled for 7-8 September. The other…
California chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Biba Caggiano died last Thursday. Caggiano, who emigrated to the US in the late 1970s, and her husband opened an Italian restaurant simply named 'Biba' in Sacramento in…
As Darcie reminded us last week, Netflix here in the US is broadcasting The Great British Bake Off three days after the original episode airs in the UK. Raise your hand if you have already watched Cake Week (raise both…
There are a handful of people whose pioneering work in codifying the cooking of a region has created a body of work that is used generation after generation. Paula Wolfert, Julia Child, and Marcella Hazan are three…
