Search Results: "Cookbook"
  • Fri. 05 Jun '09

    People

    Cook Books

    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

  • Thu. 14 Jan '10

    Cooking

    Eat Your Books

    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. 14 Aug '09

    Cooking

    Vino and Cookbook of the Month Club

    This new club combines our favorite things: cookbooks and wine. When it comes to book clubs, only one woman's picks have ever mattered. Others tried to capture readers'... more

  • Wed. 09 Jun '10

    Dining

    Frankies Spuntino

    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

  • Fri. 16 Apr '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Whoopie Pies

    A new cookbook leaves us gobsmacked. Like any royalty, cupcakes are an easy target for ridicule and displaced anger. But if anything is going to dethrone the king of... more

  • Fri. 12 Mar '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: My Favorite Ingredients

    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. 11 Nov '09

    Cooking

    Amazon: Adaptable Feast

    A new book helps you cook for guests on special diets . The scene is familiar: You invite a crowd over for dinner, only to learn that their diverse dietary restrictions... more

  • Fri. 30 Oct '09

    Dining

    Tasting Table

    Going beyond the standard squash. Pumpkins may be in short supply, but don't let that stop you from jumping into other October finds. Here are a few of our... more

  • Wed. 30 Sep '09

    Cooking

    The Pleasures of Cooking for One

    A cookbook legend tackles dinners for one. It's fun to cook for a crowd. But when Americans eat at home alone, many of us--the folks at Tasting Table included--tend to... more

  • Tue. 04 Aug '09

    People

    Ani Phyo

    Ani Phyo slips superfoods into dessert. If someone said eating more dessert would be good for you, would you believe them? In her third cookbook, Ani's Raw Food Desserts,... more

  • Wed. 10 Dec '08

    Cooking

    Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks

    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 Jul '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Amazon: Fiesta at Rick's

    Rick Bayless simplifies a Mexican classic for home. Authentic tacos al pastor requires a spit, a fire and about 20 pounds of thinly sliced, marinated pork--hardly... more

  • Tue. 15 Jun '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Amazon: The Perfect Finish

    A White House chef brings back a classic. Through decades spent in top kitchens--and in his current post at the White House--pastry chef Bill Yosses has developed an... more

  • Thu. 20 May '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Amazon: Pig

    A Southern food guru's secret ingredient. Most biscuit recipes lack the very ingredient that makes the pastry perfectly moist and flaky: lard. Luckily, this flavorless... more

  • Tue. 04 May '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Amazon: Mixt Salads

    This greens-free salad is a tropical treat. For some, salads are a penitent meal meant to compensate for days of indulgent eating. Not so for Andrew Swallow, the chef of... more

  • Tue. 27 Apr '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Amazon: Ready for Dessert

    A baking master's final word on the classic cookie . Paris-based pastry chef David Lebovitz wanted to call his new cookbook David's Greatest Hits. His publisher quickly... more

  • Mon. 23 Nov '09

    Cooking

    Michael Symon's Live to Cook

    Recipes from the Keller, Symon and Peel families--to yours. It doesn't matter how many stars or accolades a chef has collected: Many of his or her best dishes always... more

  • Mon. 12 Oct '09

    Cooking

    New Classic Family Dinners

    A new cookbook celebrates Campanile's family-night menus . If you've been to Campanile for fried chicken or beef bourguignonne on Monday nights, you know just how good a... more

  • Thu. 08 Oct '09

    Cooking

    John Besh

    The star chef chronicles a new era in NOLA dining. Chef John Besh's new (and hefty) cookbook, My New Orleans, isn't what you'd call linear: Its 16 chapters jump from... more

  • Tue. 15 Sep '09

    Cooking

    Food52

    Food52 puts your recipes in the spotlight--and in a cookbook. They say that “two cooks in the kitchen will spoil the broth,” but that’s not necessarily... more

  • Thu. 15 Apr '10

    Chefs' Recipes

    Blue Ribbon

    Blue Ribbon's classics come home. New York's venerable Blue Ribbon restaurant has been serving up homey food with a sophisticated edge since 1992, but only now have... more

  • Wed. 14 Oct '09

    Cooking

    Field Guide to Candy

    A DIY guide to your favorite candies, sweets and confections. Had our early experiences not been marred by giant, tooth-shattering popcorn balls, we would have begun... more

  • Fri. 04 Jun '10

    Cooking

    Who You Callin Cupcake

    Bleeding Heart Bakery's new cupcake cookbook . Roscoe Village's Bleeding Heart Bakery is known for its brightly colored cakes--adorned with lightning bolts and classic... more

  • Mon. 03 May '10

    Cooking

    Good to the Grain

    One pastry chef's road to healthy baked goods. Whole-grain baking is often associated with the '70s era of macramé, burnt earth-tone colors and leaden bread... more

  • Fri. 19 Mar '10

    Cooking

    Local: Mission Eatery

    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

  • Thu. 11 Mar '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Gourmet Game Night

    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

  • Wed. 16 Dec '09

    Cooking

    Tasting Table

    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

  • Thu. 03 Sep '09

    Cooking

    Wheeler's Frozen Desserts

    Wheeler's vegan ice creams are dairy-free, but full of fancy. When most people think of "vegan ice cream," they envision a syrupy, gummy substrate of unsatisfying soy... more

  • Tue. 21 Jul '09

    Cooking

    Julienne Cookbook

    Recipes from San Marino's favorite neighborhood bistro. When new restaurateurs need a recipe for success, they need look no further than neighborhood mainstays like San... more

  • Tue. 05 May '09

    Cooking

    Adam Perry Lang

    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

  • Wed. 22 Apr '09

    Cooking

    Original Farmers Market Cookbook

    A new book celebrates the lives and food of the Original Farmers Market. The sights, sounds and smells at the Original Farmers Market--metal folding chairs scraping on... more

  • Mon. 03 Nov '08

    People

    Emily Farris

    Emily Farris elevates an old budget standby. Living on a budget might be new (and shocking) for some of us, but we could all take notes from Brooklyn-based cookbook... more

  • Tue. 31 Aug '10

    Dining

    An exclusive deal at the season's best eating event. For 15 years--long before we received our first CSA delivery or even dreamed of a rooftop farm--Just Food has been... more

  • Wed. 25 Aug '10

    Cooking

    The Commonsense Kitchen

    The Commonsense Kitchen might be an instant classic. Every now and then, a cookbook appears that is so clear and comprehensive it instantly becomes essential. For us,... more

  • Fri. 09 Jul '10

    Dining

    Ruxbin Restaurant

    Creative design--and dining--at Ruxbin. To describe Ruxbin as "resourceful" is an understatement. This new, petite Noble Square BYOB is filled with reclaimed and... more

  • Thu. 08 Jul '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Breaking Bread

    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

  • Mon. 24 May '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Seasonal Fruit Desserts

    Avoid buyer's remorse with this new cookbook. This time of year, restraint is hard to come by: With so much variety at the market, it's difficult not to pick up a few... more

  • Wed. 19 May '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Homegrown

    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

  • Fri. 23 Apr '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Fast, Fresh & Green

    A new cookbook solves the farmers' market conundrum. The vegetable parade is upon us. And with it, we'll admit, comes some anxiety. With the farmers' markets filling up... more

  • Mon. 12 Apr '10

    Cooking

    Amazon: Moleskine Recipe Journal

    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. 26 Jan '10

    Cooking

    Lucid Food

    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

  • Wed. 21 Oct '09

    Cooking

    Homemade suger egg puffs

    Recreate a cultish Chinese dessert at home. The address 3319 Balboa Street in the Outer Richmond has long been a magnet for fans of Shanghainese soup dumplings. Previous... more

  • Mon. 31 Aug '09

    Dining

    Tasting Table

    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

  • Fri. 28 Aug '09

    Cooking

    BabyCakes NYC

    BabyCakes's vegan doughnuts have us deliciously fooled. Who said it's impossible to make a healthy doughnut that tastes as good as the real (fried) thing? We did--and... more

  • Wed. 19 Aug '09

    Cooking

    A Taste of Heaven

    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

  • Wed. 27 May '09

    Cooking

    Amazon: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It

    A new book lets you stock your larder with homespun staples . The DIY movement has been taking over the country one hand-knitted scarf at a time. It was inevitable that a... more

  • Wed. 18 Mar '09

    Cooking

    Kitchen Witch

    A New Orleans bookshop sells the secret to perfect gumbo. Forget roux and "the holy trinity"; when it comes to perfect New Orleans-style gumbo, the secret is in the... more

  • Wed. 22 Apr '09

    Cooking

    Amazon: Real Cajun

    A New Orleans chef keeps regional dishes alive. In Cajun country, a standard breakfast is cheesy eggs and spicy boudin sausage, chased with dark chicory coffee. Good luck... more

  • Tue. 03 Mar '09

    Cooking

    Amazon: Baking Unplugged

    A new cookbook for low-tech bakers. In these strapped-for-cash times, even noncooks are heading into the kitchen to test their culinary skills. It's a state of affairs... more

  • Wed. 24 Sep '08

    People

    Porchetta

    A new sandwich shop and cookbook from chef Sara Jenkins. This fall is shaping up to be a good one for Sara Jenkins: First, her excellent new cookbook, Olives &... more

  • Tue. 20 Jul '10

    Dining

    You Tube

    One chef's signature dish, enjoyed around the world. It started, of course, with an American classic. Now the canned-meat concept has been blighted by a stream of... more

  • Fri. 28 May '10

    Dining

    Tasting Table

    The cream of this month's food crop. In Cannes, films are vying for critics' picks; on TV, the Lakers and the Suns duke it out for the NBA finals; and a few weeks ago,... more

  • Mon. 24 May '10

    Cooking

    The Good Stuff Cookbook

    Good Stuff Eatery shares its trade secrets. Mesclun and bitter greens may dominate the menus at tonier restaurants, but at Good Stuff Eatery, Spike Mendelsohn elevates... more

  • Tue. 18 May '10

    Cooking

    Soba Making

    Making traditional buckwheat noodles is easier than you think. Like any pasta, dry store-bought soba noodles pale in comparison to freshly made ones. Luckily, the... more

  • Tue. 27 Apr '10

    Dining

    Local: Mission Eatery

    Head to the rear of Local for Knead's knockout pastries. Pastry fans, please move to the back of the restaurant. There, at the rear of the new Local: Mission Eatery,... more

  • Thu. 15 Apr '10

    People

    Spoon Fed

    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

  • Wed. 31 Mar '10

    Dining

    Tasting Table

    Our favorite finds from the month. If April is the cruelest month, surely March is a close second: The weather plays with our emotions, and heartache follows college... more

  • Mon. 22 Mar '10

    People

    Bolzano Artisan Meats

    Scott Buer brings old-world dry-curing to the Midwest. Wisconsin has long been known for its bustling jerky and brat trade. Now high-end charcuterie has entered the mix,... more

  • Tue. 16 Mar '10

    Dining

    Kookoo Sabzi

    Where to eat for the Persian New Year. Day and night become equals this weekend. To honor the vernal equinox and the shift from winter to spring, Persians celebrate... more

  • Mon. 08 Mar '10

    Dining

    Dok Suni's

    Become reacquainted with Korean cuisine. A decade ago, New York Times reporter Florence Fabricant declared Korean food an "unknown" cuisine to New Yorkers, and went on to... more

  • Tue. 23 Feb '10

    People

    Cary Taylor of The Southern

    Meet The Southern's Cary Taylor--and cook like him, too. Georgia-born Cary Taylor has spent years in Chicago kitchens, but you can still catch a hint of his Southern... more

  • Fri. 05 Feb '10

    People

    Amazon: Dorie Greenspan

    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. 29 Jan '10

    Dining

    Tasting Table

    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

  • Tue. 15 Dec '09

    Dining

    Angeli Caffe

    Still setting the standard after a quarter-century. You can throw a wet noodle in any direction in L.A. and hit an Italian restaurant. But that wasn't the case in... more

  • Thu. 03 Dec '09

    Cooking

    Sous Vide Supreme

    Sous-vide cooking finally hits home . The turning point in the war against dry chicken and mushy broccoli came in the 1970s, when French chef George Pralus invented... more

  • Wed. 02 Dec '09

    Cooking

    Classes at Gordon Ramsay

    Learn how to cook like the pros--in their own kitchens . When you're shopping for the home cook who has everything, a regular gift certificate just won't do. Instead,... more

  • Fri. 20 Nov '09

    Cooking

    KickStarter.com

    Help turn a great food idea into reality. If you admired that kid down the street with the lemonade stand but never had the entrepreneurial spirit yourself, don't... more

  • Tue. 17 Nov '09

    Cooking

    Stir

    Barbara Lynch gets a smart soapbox. There are many reasons to genuflect in Barbara Lynch's direction. The accomplished chef has introduced Boston to modern fine dining... more

  • Tue. 03 Nov '09

    Cooking

    Tasting Table LA

    Persimmons are fall's fruit of the gods. Like pumpkins and gourds, persimmons are a sure sign of fall. The fruit looks like a tomato crossed with an orange, and has a... more

  • Thu. 29 Oct '09

    Cooking

    DamGoodSweet

    An unlikely pastry chef taps his bayou beginnings . David Guas is an accidental pastry chef. When the New Orleans native graduated from culinary school, he found a job at... more

  • Mon. 26 Oct '09

    Drinks

    The Naked Pint

    A new book spotlights the craft-beer explosion. The streets are flowing with artisanal beer these days, so it's about time we understood what we're drinking. Thankfully,... more

  • Fri. 23 Oct '09

    Cooking

    Forking Fantastic

    A definitive guide to throwing big parties in tiny kitchens. Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds don't place much stock in fancy linens and seating charts. Their idea of a... more

  • Thu. 22 Oct '09

    People

    Jamie Oliver

    Jamie Oliver: Teach a man to (cook) fish. Most TV chefs have failed--miserably--when it comes to using their celebrity status to help Americans eat more... more

  • Fri. 21 Aug '09

    People

    Chef Andrew Zimmerman

    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. 10 Aug '09

    People

    Chrysta Wilson

    Kiss My Bundt's Chrysta Wilson takes the cake . Growing up in the South, Bundt cakes were as commonplace as sweet tea to Chrysta Wilson. So when the community organizer... more

  • Fri. 07 Aug '09

    Dining

    Spiaggia Restaurant

    An Italian standard turns 25 years young. When Spiaggia opened in 1984, fine dining in Chicago--and across the country--was synonymous with French cuisine. "Italian food"... more

  • Tue. 04 Aug '09

    Dining

    Takashi Restaurant

    Takashi gives Chicago the gift of authentic soba and ramen. Takashi Yagihashi has been holding out on us. He teased us with his noodle cookbook last spring, but has kept... more

  • Fri. 24 Jul '09

    Dining

    Amazon

    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. 01 Jul '09

    Cooking

    Photos by Lindseybelle Photography

    Enjoy the best of Sfoglia anytime--no reservations required. When chefs Ron and Colleen Suhanosky opened Sfoglia on the restaurant-starved Upper East Side in 2006, they... more

  • Tue. 23 Jun '09

    Cooking

    Photo: Dudley Bierau

    Throw a proper Maine-style lobster bake--anywhere. The water in New England is still a bit chilly for swimming, but no matter: When Yankees get sand between their toes,... more

  • Wed. 29 Apr '09

    People

    Photo: Uta Briesewitz

    Taking your Indian food beyond curry. Cookbook author Kaumudi Marathé wants the world to know there's more to Indian food than tandoori, samosas and curry. And... more

  • Tue. 04 Nov '08

    Cooking

    Sheep's-Milk Ricotta

    Andrew Carmellini brings high-end cooking home. Before chef Andrew Carmellini left A Voce in June to develop his own restaurant, the most popular dish on his menu there... more


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