Paper Palate

This may astound some of you, but I don’t own a lot of cookbooks. I have my handful of favorites, but for the most part collect recipes through blogs, online recipe sites, and cooking magazines. I have to really love a cookbook to buy it, and although I am tempted by a lot of them, […]

I am addicted to cookbooks. There. I said it.
It feels good to get that out.
My cookbook collection ranges from encyclopedic “how-to” volumes to tiny specialty cookbooks and a variety of self-published fund-raising editions. I love them all, but truth be told, the 1999 edition of The Ultimate Southern Living Cookbook is one of my all-time […]

Already, I hear you say, it will be no time before they leave home again to their respective universities and colleges, resuming their busy students’ lives; the question is “WHAT WILL THEY EAT THEN?” Here is a book whose title is a bit of a mouthful but that will ease parents’ worries: The Really Useful Ultimate Student Vegetarian […]

Thrift is the by-word at the moment; that credit crunch/rising food and energy prices thang that everyone is talking about but doesn’t really seem to have much effect on those that I know. Still this month’s Delicious supplement - A month of Family Meals for Under a £5 - is certainly handy for when it does […]

The Hairy Bikers aka Dave Myers and Simon King who had roared their way to success in previous BBC series are back on the 18th of August on BBC2.
I must say that I am not a great fan, worse I am not sure why I am not, maybe it is their style, surely it can’t be their beards. I love […]

Though some of Ted Allen’s fans may remember him from his days as the restaurant critic for Chicago magazine, most of us know him from stints on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Iron Chef: America, and Food Detectives. But Allen has been a nationally respected food and wine expert since joining the editorial staff of Esquire magazine eleven years […]

We’ve had some unseasonably cool weather the past week or so here in New Jersey. Since it’s been so glorious outside of an evening, eating outside is the perfect way to enjoy the weather. Usually, by August it’s so hot and humid that dinner inside where the air-conditioning is on is much more appealing. 
In my search […]

I will admit . . . I have been a little disenchanted with some of the latest issues of Food & Wine magazine. Usually, I am able to flip through the magazine and bookmark a good handful of recipes to add to my “I will make this someday list.” Lately, however, I have bookmarked less […]

Tarte au Citron ~ fresh and zesty and packed with a citrus punch, it gets raves every time I serve it.
Fourteen years ago I stumbled across this recipe in a new cookbook, All Around The World, by Sheila Lukins.  It is now my signature dessert.

All Around the World offers recipes and vignettes from the 730 days […]

For those who follow food blogs, Waiter Rant is probably a familiar stop for you.  The “waiter” in question gives a behind-the-scenes look at life in the restaurant business, namely an establishment in New York City.  Recently, his blog fodder became a page-turner as it was turned into his first book, Waiter Rant - Thanks […]