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Like many of the writers on this site, I have a bit of a…well, call it a fondness for food magazines (and never mind that those who know us well call it an obsession, or an addiction).  I subscribe to almost all of the mainstream food magazines in the United States, and a […]

Small dishes from the realm where paper meets palate.

Sarah East, host of the web shows Grocery School and FN Crazy takes us through a rundown of new cookbooks by Food Network stars like only Sarah can.
In the October issue of Draft Magazine, the staff prepares us for what is easily the best of Mother Nature’s […]

Far be it from me to tell anyone what to name their recipes, but if you’re going to refer to it as “extraordinary,” it darn well better be.  And these?  Not so much.  The 1-1/2 cups of butter was not even enough to elevate them to extraordinary status. To my assistant sous chef and I, they […]

Eating well on a meager college student’s budget in the early 90’s in Seattle was incredibly easy for one simple reason: Thai restaurants. They were everywhere, they churned out incredible food and they were cheap. I became a pad thai, tom yum goong, and Thai spicy eggplant junkie, with a fix around almost every corner.

After […]

Tarte au Citron ~ fresh and zesty and packed with a citrus punch, it gets raves every time I serve it.
Fourteen years ago I stumbled across this recipe in a new cookbook, All Around The World, by Sheila Lukins.  It is now my signature dessert.

All Around the World offers recipes and vignettes from the 730 days […]

Small dishes from the realm where paper meets palate.
This Literary Tapas is a video daily double.  Food Network star Anne Burrell gives video reviews of her two favorite cookbooks, Ruth Reichl’s The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes and Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan.

Steven Jenkins has lived the ultimate Food Life.
The Food Life: Inside the World of Food with the Grocer Extraordinaire at Fairway by Steven Jenkins, with recipes by Mitchel London, has to be one of the most passionate and wittiest memoirs I’ve read in a very long time.
Not that I’m surprised. I’ve been smitten with Steven Jenkins […]

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 […]

There are several piles of old food magazines on my bookshelves that I just can’t seem to give up. You just never know when a seemingly uninteresting recipe that you skimmed over in the past will jump out and reveal itself as a real keeper. Often it is a recipe that is so perfect that […]

In 1967 the small local chain of convenience stores known as Pronto Markets changed their name and in so doing became the model grocery store of the new millennium. The new name? Trader Joe’s, of course. Today there are over 280 stores in 23 states that feature the best for less. Sure, lots of people […]