Paper Palate

(Copyright © 2007 Nika Boyce)
When the Well Fed Network was given an opportunity to review the russel+hazel Recipe Binder Set, I had to try it out. The best way to describe this concept is that it is like Levenger for your kitchen. Instead of messy food splattered index cards that get lost or not used […]

Food and wine is the first section of any wine book that I flick to. Is it going to be perfunctory, clichéd, adding little to the banal generalisations of others? Or will it enlighten, offer a fresh twist and inspire?
Secrets From The Wine Diva has 40 odd pages covering the subject of food and wine. […]

It might sound a touch imperialistic to limit this to just British books, however, rest assured that I could write hundreds more lists, Top 10 American Cookbooks, 13 Most Cookable French Books, 7 Highly Desired Books on Preparing Tripe and so forth.
It’s a sad fact that many cooks these days simply use the most commonly […]

David Kamp’s The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation makes for a good light read for anyone interested in the subject of food, its follies and fights in the United States. It glides the decades and personalities of the food world with personal stories, quirky accounts and riffs of all our […]

I wonder if it happened while we were sleeping. Or while we had our backs turned. Or maybe it was while we were at the dinner table. Seemingly overnight, we’ve become an educated public. We know where our food comes from, how it’s made, and what it’s doing to us. Organics are now a supermarket […]

Mention the phrase “old books” and most of us probably think either of libraries or of used book stores. Old books can be fragile, expensive, or rare, but they often contain interesting information.
Online archives are starting to make access to old and rare books easier. One resource that everyone who enjoys food should know about […]