Paper Palate

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. […]

“Don’t eat fish on Mondays.” Have you ever heard that before? If so, you have already learned something from Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. There has been a ton of press recently about Bourdain’s newest book, The Nasty Bits, which is a compilation of essays. More specifically, there has been a ton […]

I have a problem: I am easily distracted by large quantities of something I love. My eyes glaze over, I am unable to keep a train of thought going, I begin to mumble and I lose all sense of time. Put a plate of cookies in front of me mid-conversation and words […]

As someone who you could say collects cookbooks, it’s not uncommon for me to sometimes forget I have a particular book. And sometimes I stumble across a book I forgot I had, like I did today, when hidden somewhere in my collection, I found The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner). […]

On February 24, 2003, Bernard Loiseau, chef and owner of La Cote D’or, a three-star restaurant and hotel in Saulieu, France, shot and killed himself, ostensibly over a coming demotion from a 19/20 to a 17/20 rating in the 2003 Gault/Millau Guide, and the fear that he was about to lose his third Michelin star. […]

Released just days ago, Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany, by Bill Buford, is sure to be one of summer’s most talked about food books.
Heat has been compared to Anthony Bourdain’s sensational account of his experiences while in the “culinary […]

For the past month I’ve been trying to write this review of Laurie Colwin’s Home Cooking and More Home Cooking, two of my all-time favorite books on food and cooking. Why am I having so much trouble? Because I’m afraid that nothing I write can do justice to the wonderful experience that is […]

Looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Here are some recent cookbooks that might just fit the bill.
The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1000 recipes, Edited by Ruth Reichl (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)
If your mother considers herself to be a true chef, The Gourmet Cookbook is a must have. For sixty years […]

It is not often that a book is so enthralling that not only is it impossible to put down, but its lyrical mastery beckons to be read aloud. M.F.K. Fisher’s work, The Art of Eating, is spewing with poetical epiphanies on food, and memories that surround a life that finds meaning in living. […]