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As I opened the plain brown envelope that contained my preview copy of Joyce Lamont’s Favorite Minnesota Recipes & Radio Memories (Voyager Press, Minneapolis, MN) I was a little giddy. I am a son of the South and cookbooks of folksy Southern personalities like Fannie Flagg or Paula Deen are always met with anticipation. Often […]

When on the BBC’s Magazine Panel, one gets to fill up questionnaires. My latest was about Celebrity Chefs: “who do I like, who I hate” sort of thing. Gazing at the list of the 30 odd names (that is, without counting “Other”), I could not help wondering about the flash-in-the-pan factor. Who of these top-notch cooks will still be in […]

I live on an island that is fairly well populated in terms of number of people, but fairly sparsely populated in terms of restaurant variety.  If I crave Thai, Mexican, Indian, or seafood, I’m set, but what happens if I’m struck with a longing for Japanese, Italian, Ethiopian, or steakhouse steak (and creamed spinach)?  The […]

Did Rachael Ray suddenly start publishing every other week? I’ve barely finished savoring my last Everyday with Rachael Ray and now I have the March issue in my mailbox. But I love the recipes inside, so here’s to March. Here’s what you can expect inside:

Beauty products made with sushi ingredients
A garden centerpiece made by Vern […]

I picked up a new cookbook. Actually, Amazon delivered it to my front door and I picked it up off the front stoop. A Great American Cook: Recipes from the Home Kitchen of One of Our Most Influential Chefs by Jonathan Waxman is a cookbook my fellow personal chef friends and I chose […]

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, […]

If I didn’t know better, I would swear that we are in the midst of another baby boom.  It seems like all of the ladies I know from the age of 20 to 40 are “creating a family.”  Still childless, I find myself hunting for useful baby shower items, not really knowing what the best […]

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 […]

This is one of my most recent acquisitions: a cookbook that I actually won! Even though it’s a book of swift, store cupboard suppers, in the two months I’ve owned it I haven’t actually used it. Time to rectify that!
The books’ sub-heading is “How to get the most out of your kitchen” and is based on […]

 
“Behind every great recipe, there’s a story”Southern Flavor - Recipes and Stories About The Food And People Of The South.What encapsulates the southern states of American to you? Grits I guess but also peanuts, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, and sweet potato. But how about Alaga Syrup and White Lily Flour? Both producers feature in this […]