Paper Palate

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 […]

If you’ll be in the New York City area on Wednesday, February 18th you may want to keep your plans open that evening so that you have time to head over to The New School.  A Food Writing Forum will be presented and open to the public for $5 or for students of The New […]

A collection of small dishes from the realm where paper meets palate.
Well Halloween has come and gone and November is full on top of us now. That can mean only one thing: it’s the holidays. The time of year when Food Network will be cascading innovative party ideas and the magazines virtually write themselves. It […]

British food magazine Taste Italia is packed with delicious-sounding recipes illustrated by gorgeous photos. American readers can order the magazine, but as with other imported goods, you can expect to pay a premium for it (59.95 in British pounds, to be exact). Happily, you can now subscribe to Taste Italia online, in a digital edition available from Exact Editions, […]

Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential and host of No Reservations has put together his personal list of the Top 10 foodie books of all time.  Take a gander:
1. The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
The mad monk of Napa Valley’s unsurpassed cookery book - the ultimate in porno for chefs.
2. White Heat by Marco Pierre White
A chef […]

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

With all of the hullabaloo right now about salmonella tainted tomatoes the good folks at Domino magazine come to the rescue in their August ’08 issue with an article for uses of heirloom tomatoes. For those who do not know, heirlooms are what tomatoes […]

 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 […]

Both the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals) and the James Beard Foundation have announced their finalists for 2008 honors. Each organization features thirteen categories, like Food Reference/Technical, Americana, and Healthy Focus, for publications printed in 2007.
Many of the publications have made both lists like A Love Affair with Southern Cooking by Jean Anderson and […]

The popular Hollywood party planner, Colin Cowie, is known for the money-is-no-object fetes that he has put together for Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez and Brooke Shields, among others.  But it turns out that throwing a party isn’t the only thing he knows a thing or two about. 
His new book, Colin Cowie Chic, is all about gracious […]

I didn’t come upon this wonderful book in the usual way, which is to say drooling over it in a bookstore or browsing on Amazon. Instead, my sister sent me a forwarded e-mail with the subject line reading something like “Count Your Blessings.” Now I don’t typically open these types of e-mails, but my sister […]