CookShelfEnter our giveaway below (open to US - three copies; with EYB providing one copy worldwide) for The New Way to Cake: Simple Recipes with Exceptional Flavor by Benjamina Ebuehi. This book made my Baker’s gift guide this…
The trend for cooking more 'plant-based foods' continues unabated, but it really is not a new phenomenon. In fact, you could say it is one of the oldest trends in human history. That's because a new discovery shows that…
Sodium alginate, spheres, and foams: when these items first made their appearance in the early 2000s, they ushered in a new way of looking at food. Pioneering chefs like Wylie Dufresne, Heston Blumenthal, and Grant…
Enter our giveaway open to US members for The Joys of Baking: Recipes and Stories for a Sweet Life by Samantha Seneviratne. This book made my Baker's gift guide this year. If I had to pick a specific subject matter that…
As the calendar turned from December to January, millions of people worldwide started working on their healthy-eating resolution for 2020. A growing trend in this vein is to eat a vegan diet for a month, a movement…
Blame Alton Brown or perhaps even Marie Kondo for the backlash against kitchen tools that have only one use - unitaskers, as Brown calls them. The argument against them boils down to this: why take up valuable kitchen…
Happy New Year! We had a fantastic year of cookbook releases and the post on looking forward to 2020 cookbooks provides an outline of what the new year has in store for us cookbook lovers. Throughout the year, this post…
Restaurant critic Ruth Reichl has seen her share of menus. During her stints writing for a variety of newspapers and magazines, she dined in some of the finest establishments in the U.S. During her career as critic -…
Enter our US giveaway below to win a copy Dinner at the Club: 100 Years of Stories and Recipes from South Philly's Palizzi Social Club by Joseph Baldino and Adam Erace. This title is one of my favorites from last year…
Have you ever looked at Yelp reviews when deciding on whether to eat at a particular restaurant? Have terms 'authentic' or 'inauthentic' swayed your decision-making? If so, you'll want to read the article by Mai Tran,…
