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I must confess, I had never heard of the Hippy Gourmet (apparently he has a PBS show), but his cookbook, (The Hippy Gourmet’s Quick & Simple Cookbook for Healthy Eating) held some intrigue.  Anything entitled quick & simple that sounds like it may contain some virtuous recipes is worth a trial in my opinion.  Immediately upon receipt, […]

The Food Network’s Robin Miller recently spoke with Cynthia Hubert of my local paper, the Sacramento Bee. As a nutritionist and cookbook author, Miller offered tips on packing healthy lunchboxes for kids (and I guess for adults, too). Here are a few excerpts from the interview and you can check out the whole thing here.
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On my personal blog recently, I mentioned something about cool weather. Since that day, I think I have jinxed things. The temps were back up in the warmer ranges and the cool days we were having are long gone for awhile again. Ahhhh… you have to love Kansas. If you don’t like the weather one day, […]

Is it me, or does it seem a little early for “best of ‘07″ lists to be coming out?  Don’t get me wrong, I’m certainly a fan of them, but they usually start trickling out in the beginning of December, which makes sense, not in June, which is when Food & Wine magazine listed their […]

Cooking fish intimidates me. I’m not proud of it, but it’s true. Recently, I just decided that I was in the mood for grilling something other than burgers, steak, and chicken. So, I flipped open one of my Rachael Ray cookbooks, 365: No Repeats, and found a grilled fish recipe: Chili-Spiced Grilled Halibut with Grilled-Corn […]

Here are a few of our favorite recipe and cookbpok reviews from around the blogosphere this week.  If you have a post that you wrote reviewing a recipe from the food media, e-mail us so we can include it!    

Kalyn at Kalyn’s Kitchen displays her entry into a great blogging event: the Julia Child Birthday Event sponsored […]

The day I received The Raw 50 by Carol Alt in the mail, I had to scan through every recipe; curiosity of the “raw” diet was simply killing me.  I curled up with it in bed (yes, I curl up with cookbooks) for some nighttime reading.  Though I somehow didn’t care for the overall writing […]

One of my favorite cookbook authors, Rick Bayless, teamed up with Sur La Table to create cooking demonstration videos for several popular recipes.  He shows us how to make Guacamole Three Ways, Masa Tortillas and Salsa, Entertaining with Enchiladas, and Pairing Mexican Food with Wine.  The videos can also be downloaded as podcasts and the […]

While most people profess that they could never live an all raw food lifestyle, the curiosity of such a diet seems to be mounting.  Enough so, that many are experimenting with a raw food recipe or two, and several new “raw” cookbooks are making their way to market.
Like others, I like to keep my kitchen […]

I have owned The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by the Food Network’s Ina Garten for about three years and guess how many recipes I’ve made from it?  None.  That’s right, none.  Just like Alex yesterday, except adding on about 2 years and 10 months.  I bought this neglected book in my early days of learning how to […]