Paper Palate

I love, love, love to read, so when you put a book in my hands that also has to do with food, well, I generally call it a winner! One of my quirks is my love to study and read old cookbooks, and stories that include conversations of people and their recipes pre-modern day (before all […]

I love bread in a somewhat unreasonable manner. It is one of the few foods I could never give up. And it’s also one of the few things I rarely make - which is ridiculous given the state of most commercial bread in Britain.
A copy of Anne Sheasby’s The Big Book of Bread recently came […]

As my mother always says, food is love. To continue with  holiday postings, I want to give you a heads up on two really great books about giving food as gifts. The reason I bring this up now is that some of these gifts need to steep or sit for a month or more, so time […]

Gifts for the kitchen can easily cross the line, going from a thoughtful gesture to an inappropriate hint.  For the holidays, beautiful cookbooks filled with inspiration should be your theme, leaving the overly practical cookbooks for the domestic chef to acquire on his or her own.  Yet, when purchasing online, or fighting the holiday season […]

I have never considered myself to be a soup person. Given the option of soup or salad, salad would always be my choice. Soup seemed like a side item… not something that could be used for the main course. Well, I was not a soup person and now I know why. I was not eating […]

Rachael Ray is looking awfully flirty on the cover of her December-January Issue of Every Day with Rachael Ray, don’t you think? It’s only appropriate though, since this is the New Year’s issue. I sad to say that this is a double issue, which means we have a long wait until the February issue hits […]

Since his days on NBC’s The Restaurant over three years ago, celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito seems to have evolved into a kinder, gentler version of himself, as particularly evidenced by his appearances on Bravo’s Top Chef. Besides keeping the former nasties in check, he has also managed to shed some 30 pounds and has started […]