Paper Palate

One of the hot new genres among nonfiction publications is the “culinary adventure.” The formula is simple really, a chef or restaurant critic takes a vacation where they do nothing but experience wonderful cuisine and along the way they learn a little something about life. Perhaps we should call it Foodie Literature because it is […]

Small dishes from the realm where paper meets palate.
In the May/June ’08 issue of Draft magazine, Bruce Paton helps everyone with the often daunting task of what wild food should be paired with each obscure micro-brew. He suggests pairing wild blackberries with Maylon’s Dragoon’s Dry Irish Stout, trout with Mad River Steelhead Extra Pale Ale […]

 A collection of small dishes from the realm where paper meets palate.

Who is Judith Jones? She is only the woman behind some of the most influential cookbooks of all time. Jones is not a chef or Food Network host. She is merely the editor for Marcella Hazan, Claudia Roden, Edna Lewis, Marion Cunningham, and Julia […]

Shauna James Ahern likes loves is obsessed with food.  Like so many of us, she has had an on again, off again love affair with food for her entire life; always searching for the answer to what ailed her, and somehow knowing that it lay in right in front of her … on her plate.  […]

I make no bones about it, I’m not a big fan of Sandra Lee’s cooking, or her Food Network show, Semi-Homemade. That being said, after reading a recent excerpt from her new memoir Made from Scratch in People Magazine, while I may not be a fan of Sandra Lee’s cooking, I am now a fan […]

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 […]

The Wiseguy Cookbook
by Henry Hill and Priscilla Davis � New American Library/$18.00
If you don�t know who Henry Hill is, you should. He�s a mobster-turned-informant who was immortalized in the 1990 film Goodfellas. Hill is also an author who, with Priscilla Davis, turned out The Wiseguy Cookbook, a unique volume containing mob stories and authentic Italian […]

A few weeks ago I sat with a friend on a bench outside a favorite bakery. Dutifully, we stuffed our faces with chocolate cupcakes crowned thickly with buttermilk icing. As I finished the last bite, wiping renegade frosting off the wrapper and licking my finger clean, my friend caught my action and laughed: […]

In searching for books to highlight I came across an upcoming book that inspired me to focus on food memoirs this week. Apparently a new collection of articles written by the legendary M.F.K. Fisher will soon be making it�s way to book shelves everywhere.
I�m excited.
But I am relatively new to the food world. […]

I’ve recently become addicted to a new food show for the creativity and ingenuity of it’s premise - a professional chef heads into a grocery store, finds someone shopping, asks them to let him cook for them and then goes home with that person. It’s like a strange synergy of bizarre reality and daydreams. […]