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Seventy-five years ago – 1931 — Irma Rombauer took $3000, the modest legacy that her husband left her, and self-published the first Joy of Cooking. She was 54 years old. The next year, Irma tried to sell her book to a commercial publisher and was rejected. Joy of Cooking was commercially published […]

As promised, this is my article about Shirley Corriher’s recipes in Cookwise for chocolate chip cookies. Corriher modifies her basic cookie recipe to create a (1) thin, crisp cookie (my favorite), (2) a soft, puffy cookie and (3) a cookie that is in-between.
As I am sure you recall from my previous article, […]

In Zorba the Greek, Zorba says that he can tell what kind of person you are by what you do with the food you eat. I think a person’s favorite cookbook can be just as revealing.
My favorite cookbook is Shirley Corriher’s Cookwise. If you read my biography, you know that I […]