Paper Palate

The title refers to southern American cooking - something about which I know next to nothing. But if someone has written about a love affair with it, it must be pretty good and I was full of high hopes for the book.
Written by Jean Anderson, winner of a James Beard award and contributer to Bon […]

I am not a procrastinator on all things, but there are some things that I procrastinate with until the last minute. Writing my freelance articles is one example. It seems like my best written articles come to me when I have waited until the very last minute to write them. I do my best work […]

Remember the old saying, “You can’t judge a book by its cover?”  It means that we shouldn’t make judgments based solely on appearances.  Usually that is good advice to follow, but when I saw Claudia Roden’s lovely cookbook, Arabesque: A Tale of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon at Borders a few weeks ago, I didn’t even look […]

I love cookbooks. Especially grilling, barbecue and outdoor cookbooks. Of all the cookbooks I have in my collection, one remains a favorite, more so because of my daughter than any other reason. Over this past summer my daughter was in the hospital for nearly a month.  Needless to say, my wife and I spent a […]

Have you ever purchased a cookbook that you absolutely had to have right that very minute? Nothing at all could sway you from not buying it. I do that with cooking magazines all the time, but rarely is it that a cookbook catches my attention so much that I buy it immediately without running home […]

Fifteen meals for less than a fiver, Suppers in Under 30 Minutes, Jamie’s brilliant seasonal recipes, Jill Dupleix’s Big Soups - there’s a lot in this issue (as is the norm).
Being a bit of a sweet-fiend, Britain’s Best Puds was the obvious first stop. The five, complete with full recipes, are Jam Roly Poly, Sticky […]

Did Rachael Ray suddenly start publishing every other week? I’ve barely finished savoring my last Everyday with Rachael Ray and now I have the March issue in my mailbox. But I love the recipes inside, so here’s to March. Here’s what you can expect inside:

Beauty products made with sushi ingredients
A garden centerpiece made by Vern […]

I picked up a new cookbook. Actually, Amazon delivered it to my front door and I picked it up off the front stoop. A Great American Cook: Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs by Jonathan Waxman is a cookbook my fellow personal chef friends and I chose […]

I was browsing though the cookbook section at Border’s a few weeks before Christmas when something caught my eye … It was the Tartine cookbook by husband and wife team, Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson.  I was supposed to be Christmas shopping, but somehow, I managed to stray over into that section.  It was like […]

February’s Bon Appetit is dubbed The Green Issue and contains tips on how to eat organic, sustainable food that is good for the earth and good for you too, complete with recipes for everything from meat to veggies and dessert.
Bon Appetit has been sporting a new look lately and this issue also introduces some new […]