Paper Palate

Reading last week’s Sacramento Bee Food Section inspired me to add a new item to my Life To Do List: be a salsa champion. Don’t scoff, I’m serious! Gwen Schoen featured Bruce Reynolds, a salsa maker whose salsa swept the awards at the California State Fair this summer. He won first […]

Do you think it’s true that many of today’s top selling food magazines feed our eyes more than our stomachs? According to Ingredients For Success, an article published recently in the New York Post, some of today’s most successful magazines are not much more than glossy show pieces. The article all but butchers […]

I was very excited when I heard that Bon Appetit was going to publish a cookbook. I have enjoyed the Gourmet cookbook immensely but was a bit disappointed at the yellow type for the recipe titles. I found it hard to read especially if I just wanted to curl up and read the book. I […]

Hartford Courant Staff Reporter Steve Grant and a friend set out in August to consume all Connecticut grown/raised/etc food for one week. Good timing, I’d say, since August is the height of fresh farm market finds here in the northeast.
Our choice of late August, of course, was calculated; it is a time when so […]

Imagine eating at 85 taquerias in 10 weeks. More than 100 burritos. Nearly 300 tacos. Not all of them good. So is the life of my old friend and the newest food critic at The San Francisco Chronicle, Bill Addison. He gave me the scoop on being a food critic and let me get in […]

When I went to search for books to highlight on Hump Day Horizons, the topic was staring me in the face � literally. When I navigated through the upcoming books to the food category, there was Morgan Freeman.
Morgan Freeman? I thought. But apparently he�s headlining a new cookbook that is going to raise funds for […]

In London with just a few coppers clinking in the pocket? This guide, from the Times, suggests the best ten cheap eat restaurants in town. The nominal ‘outside the capital’ entries pick one eatery in Brighton and one in Cambridge.
Dragon Castle 114 Walworth Road, SE17 “The food is of the highest quality, featuring fresh ingredients, […]

Kerry McCray of the Modesto Bee offers an important reminder - just because a cookbook is a classic does not mean it is good. While some classics deserve a coveted spot on the kitchen counter, others simply reflect the trends of their time, rather than information that is as useful today as it was when […]

I remember my first Jewish cookbook. It was a small paperback written by the matriarch of a famous resort in upstate New York that was well known for overstuffing its guests with mountains of chopped liver, lakes of chicken soup and continents of brisket, pastrami, and other Ashkenazi (German, Russian and Eastern European) Jewish […]

Oh the stealth sweetness that is ginger. The magical rhizome with many health powers that packs an unassuming punch. This Summer, I fell in love all over again with this little warty guy…
It was the perfect summer beverage: ginger beer. It is refreshing, tingly, sweet, sour, spicy and an able bodied mixer. I experimented […]