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Cheese as been around for over 5000 years, yet this delicious compilation of Wisconsin Cheese recipes has only been around since 2008. True, California may have happy cows and Vermont has its laid-back cattle, but Wisconsin leads the pack when it comes to delicious cheese and the wonderful recipes made from their milk.  Wisconsin has […]

My mother often told me that a measure of common sense was certainly worth its weight in gold, therefore this cookbook should be worth several thousand dollars in today’s gold market.  The beginning of the common sense instruction takes place right off the bat with the opening chapter relating to Kitchen Management, followed by Cookery Terms […]

Many say a picture is worth a thousand words and if that’s so, then this reference book, Cooking Ingredients by Christine Ingram, is certainly filled with millions of reference points.  The very cover expounds upon that fact and whets the readers’ appetite for what lies beneath the cover.  From beginning to end, the pages are […]

Attention anyone who enjoys poking around New York City looking for new food finds! Zagat has published the Zagatsurvey 2009 New York City Gourmet Shopping & Entertaining (Zagat New York City Gourmet Marketplace), which gives you the 4-1-1 on all the best places (just over 1800 of them!) to find those interesting ingredients or unique […]

Welcome back class to the second installment of Paper Palate’s cooking school.  As always, our class text is The Professional Chef, the textbook of the Culinary Institute of America.  Last time, we looked at the different stations in the kitchen.  This week, we will keep looking at the nuts and bolts of how to run […]

Fans of Mark Bittman will be happy to know that he has a new book hot off the presses.  Food Matters, A Guide to Conscious Eating, delves into the topic of eating less meat and less animal products, but more whole grains and vegetables.  You can read all about his reasoning, and follow along as […]

Way back in the 80s, my partner introduced me to his best friends, like one does, and he gave me a bit of background. “They are vegan.”  Not completely fluent in English then, I stored this new word  in the back of my mind and happily jumped in the car for a long weekend in the North […]

The much anticipated release of Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook has arrived in time for the holiday shopping season.  Martha has produced a cookbook that will please anyone on your gift giving list that enjoys cooking.  From the basics of cooking eggs through braising and roasting, it’s covered in this easy […]

My family’s not vegetarian. In fact, my husband and daughter are just this side of partaking in the Caveman Diet. I like to incorporate (okay, sneak) as many vegetarian meals as they’ll tolerate into our diets, but since this isn’t my regular mode of cooking, I find myself stumped once I’ve made the cheese enchiladas, […]

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New Yorker David Gelin publishes a book on Southern BBQ. The 43-year-old Gelin’s opus, BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes From the Barbecue Belt (Gibbs Smith Publisher, $15.95) is less a book about BBQ recipes and more an exploration of the people who devote […]