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Thu. 14 Jan '10

Cooking

Eat Your Books puts your cookbook collection online. Online recipe databases--and the game-changing tools they provide for finding dishes in an instant--have given... more
Fri. 29 Jan '10

Dining

Our favorite bites from the past four weeks. January is given over to naming the best: We get the consensus of top acts in movies, football, music and television. To that... more
Fri. 05 Jun '09

People

One woman and her 30,000 used cookbooks. When the Cook's Library closed last April, the food community lost one of its most treasured sources for cookbooks. Thankfully... more
Fri. 03 Jul '09

Dining

How to spend the long weekend (and the rest of your summer) . As you prep for your holiday weekend, keep this handy: Our Fourth of July survival guide has everything you... more
Tue. 15 Jun '10

Cooking

Books to take with you, this summer and beyond . Any vacation calls for a good read, and when vacation isn't in the cards, an absorbing book can offer some armchair... more
Wed. 26 May '10

Drinks

A cocktail legend's words of wisdom. Every movement has seminal texts that educate and inspire its devotees. For cocktails, our collection spans from oldies (The World's... more
Fri. 19 Mar '10

Cooking

Local's cookbook lending library is inspired genius. Food blogs are fine for a quick menu fix or a glimpse of gastroporn, but there's no substitute for dog-eared,... more
Wed. 16 Dec '09

Cooking

The best online sources for vintage cookbooks. From dumplings to celebrity chefs' secrets to offbeat guides to entertaining, this year's crop of cookbooks included some... more
Tue. 28 Jul '09

People

A vintage bar-book collector reprints the classics. In this classic-cocktail renaissance, it's only fair that we honor those early bartenders who paved the way for Corpse... more
Tue. 28 Oct '08

Drinks

Dale DeGroff’s new cocktail book updates the classics. Like a poorly crafted drink, most cocktail books are either too watered-down (1001 Pitcher Drinks!) or arcane... more
Mon. 30 Aug '10

Drinks

Booze from the West Coast makes its mark. Irreverent blogger and spirits writer Ted Munat might be an East Coast native, but his heart (and drinking preferences) lean... more
Wed. 14 Jul '10

Cooking

Two books, one high level of delicious. It's no secret that the DIY movement is at its height of popularity. Before you dive into the fray, consult with River Cottage, a... more
Thu. 08 Jul '10

Cooking

A taste of America's melting pot. Persian herb omelets, Venezuelan asado negro and Chinese scallion pancakes: a combination about as unlikely (and far-flung) as one could... more
Wed. 30 Jun '10

Dining

June, like you want to eat and drink it. Stainless-steel canteens for wine, old-school ramen, and older-school lobster: June was a month for the books. Here, more... more
Wed. 09 Jun '10

Dining

A cookbook that lives up to its promises. These days, most restaurant cookbooks proffer ease and utility and feature weeknight meals that require minimal work. But the... more
Wed. 19 May '10

Cooking

A cook's guide to farming at home. Even for those devoted to farmers' market and CSAs, making the jump to growing produce at home is a significant undertaking. However... more
Mon. 26 Apr '10

Cooking

A new book takes the terror out of sausage making. Decades before sausage became the fetishized plaything of meat-mad chefs in the Bay Area, Victoria Wise was at the... more
Mon. 12 Apr '10

Cooking

The perfect way to track your food adventures and musings. If you're anything like us, you probably have a Web browser full of bookmarked recipes, a stack of food... more
Tue. 23 Mar '10

People

Why a tiny Vermont town is the key to food salvation . There has been plenty of proselytizing and politicking over how we should reform our nation's food systems, but not... more
Fri. 12 Mar '10

Cooking

Our latest British cookbook obsession. There's something about British cookbooks that has turned us into total Anglophiles. Perhaps it's the tightly cropped photography... more
Wed. 24 Feb '10

Cooking

Eat your way through the Louvre's food masterpieces. One could argue that the most ancient of arts is cookery. From cave drawings (the wounded bison at Lascaux) to Pop... more
Tue. 26 Jan '10

Cooking

A cookbook for eating right AND well. There's no shortage of books that proselytize in favor of local and sustainable eating, but few manage to espouse their arguments in... more
Mon. 21 Dec '09

Drinks

A guide to post-Dickens holiday drinking . Eggnog, Tom & Jerry, wassail: On a holiday when we're predestined to binge on sugar, butter and eggs, why are the... more
Wed. 11 Nov '09

Cooking

Let McCormick Gourmet Spices enliven your meal. In the budding stages of the holiday season, it's a time when home cooks dig out their sauce-stained, dog-eared recipe... more
Mon. 31 Aug '09

Dining

Five ways to weather the shoulder season. Summer is drawing to a close and though the lingering heat makes it hard to believe, it'll be sweater weather any minute. Here... more
Thu. 20 Aug '09

Cooking

Let Julie & Julia inspire you. A great food film makes its audience want to immediately run home and cook something. But none have made viewers want to cook something in... more
Wed. 19 Aug '09

Cooking

A new book finds the world's holiest food and drink. Bourbon country isn't exactly the Holy Land (unless you worship whiskey), but there, the Abbey of Gethsemani produces... more
Thu. 13 Aug '09

Cooking

The definitive guide to Asia's favorite finger food . In her first book, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen, author Andrea Nguyen demystified authentic Vietnamese cuisine. With... more
Fri. 10 Jul '09

People

Zingerman's deli does Bacon 101. Everybody knows bacon, but not everyone knows great bacon. Ari Weinzweig, proprietor of Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, didn't even... more
Mon. 22 Jun '09

People

Let Trevor Corson be your sushi concierge. It's conventional wisdom that you should never eat sushi on Mondays. But that's the thing about conventional wisdom: It's not... more
Fri. 19 Jun '09

Drinks

The Small Screen Network is a virtual bar school. The Food Network has never given much play to cocktails (save for Sandra Lee's dreadfully themed sippers), and although... more
Wed. 10 Dec '08

Cooking

Visit Bonnie Slotnick for rare and vintage cookbooks. With Black Friday past and only a couple of weeks left to shop, it's a challenge to find unique, inexpensive gifts... more
Tue. 27 Apr '10

Cooking

A salted-caramel sauce no sundae should do without. Le Caramel proves that salted caramel from the shores of San Diego can taste every bit as good as the delicacy made in... more
Thu. 15 Apr '10

People

A decorated writer looks inward. Within the genre of food writing, there's an occupational hazard of getting overly precious about every leaf of lettuce. But not Kim... more
Thu. 11 Mar '10

Cooking

What to eat at your next Scrabble tournament . We'll be honest: Initially, the idea of "game night" conjured retro images of our parents playing Pictionary surrounded by... more
Tue. 09 Mar '10

Dining

A simple staple gets its due. While the general trend of the moment has seen restaurants looking forward into their neighborhoods' futures, the recently opened Meatball... more
Fri. 26 Feb '10

Dining

What we're eating now and eyeing for later. As we round February's bend and the end of winter's bleakness is in sight, it's easy to focus only on the arrival of spring... more
Mon. 22 Feb '10

People

Cathy Erway makes an art of the home-cooked meal . The pattern has already revealed itself: A would-be food writer starts a blog with a hook and transcends an unappealing... more
Fri. 05 Feb '10

People

A pop-up bakery in an unlikely location. For years, we've turned to the books of culinary scribe Dorie Greenspan for baking inspiration and advice. Now the popular... more
Fri. 08 Jan '10

Wine

A wine manual for the millennial drinker. As a consumer product, wine is a nightmare. There are millions of wines produced around the world, many of which have... more
Mon. 04 Jan '10

Dining

Where to eat well for an auspicious 2010. 2009 has barely wrapped, and it's already going down in the books as a legendarily trying year. With that in mind, we've... more
Tue. 24 Nov '09

Cooking

National Geographic rounds up the world's best eats. There are two types of travelers: Those who plan their trips around food, and those who don't. If your itineraries... more
Mon. 02 Nov '09

Drinks

San Francisco's Blue Bottle Coffee comes to Venice. If you've ever been to Blue Bottle Coffee Co. in San Francisco, you know about the seemingly endless lines of people... more
Wed. 28 Oct '09

People

Inside the Momofuku book, plus a bonus recipe. Given the hype, David Chang and Peter Meehan's Momofuku is slimmer than you'd expect it to be. It's not one of those... more
Mon. 26 Oct '09

Drinks

A new guide to mixing organic, eco-friendly cocktails . You don't want pesticides in your meat or vegetables--why shouldn't you set the same standard for your martinis... more
Fri. 16 Oct '09

People

Try these classic delis--before they disappear . For the past two years, Canadian journalist David Sax has been blogging about his adventures with Jewish deli meats. Now,... more
Fri. 21 Aug '09

People

Andrew Zimmerman is back in the spotlight at Sepia . Think of Andrew Zimmerman as a one-man Mediterranean-American melting pot. The Chicago culinary veteran is now... more
Mon. 03 Aug '09

Cooking

TT's guide to (illegal) urban beekeeping. First there was the black market for raw milk and underaged cheese, followed by the underground sassafras trade. Now, rebellious... more
Fri. 31 Jul '09

Dining

Don't let summer slip by without these tasty tidbits. There are 51 days of summer left (but who's counting?), which means you have one day to refamiliarize yourself with... more
Fri. 24 Jul '09

Dining

Three new reads for your beach tote. There's no better time to put a dent in your reading list than during the summer, but die-hard food lovers know that hauling a coffee... more
Wed. 17 Jun '09

Cooking

An ode to the endangered American regional foods. Summer travelers, beware! Road food is endangered--or so say driving denizens Jane and Michael Stern. Known for their... more
Fri. 05 Jun '09

Drinks

A new reason to drink red wine all summer long. Poor, poor red wine: Come summer, many of us pack you away with the wool sweaters and ski boots and turn our attention to... more
Mon. 11 May '09

Drinks

Danny Meyer picks his favorite cocktails. Danny Meyer's restaurants--Gramercy Tavern, The Modern and Tabla, among others--are so lauded for their food that we often... more
Tue. 05 May '09

Cooking

Master meat at the grill with Adam Perry Lang. Anyone who thought barbecue books couldn't get any meatier hasn't met Adam Perry Lang. The chef-owner of Daisy May's BBQ in... more
Mon. 16 Mar '09

People

A new book on oysters is no shell game. Few foods offer as much ground for debate as the oyster: Some say they're good for the libido; others say that's hogwash. You... more
Fri. 03 Apr '09

People

Orangette's Molly Wizenberg goes from blog to book. Thirty-one might seem like a young age to write a culinary autobiography, but with her first book, A Homemade Life,... more