Paper Palate

Every baker has one — the cookbook that is grease spotted and batter flecked, dog eared, flour dusted, and perhaps has more than one spread of pages honey-glued together. But it’s the book we keep going back to. The one that has the lemon bar recipe we never “adjust.” The chocolate chip cookies better (gasp!) than Mom’s. […]

Although there are plenty of books about how to make homemade ice cream that feature cute, catchy titles capitalizing on the gold mine of puns related to the subject, David Lebovitz refreshingly demurs. Instead, he takes a more straightforward path, bringing us, simply, The Perfect Scoop.
Ice-cream making is not something I have ever considered part of my bailiwick in […]

I didn’t come upon this wonderful book in the usual way, which is to say drooling over it in a bookstore or browsing on Amazon. Instead, my sister sent me a forwarded e-mail with the subject line reading something like “Count Your Blessings.” Now I don’t typically open these types of e-mails, but my sister […]