Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
Another good read from Bullock-Prado, even with all the mistakes. (Read the review to get the link for the publisher’s errata). An edited version of her Scraps Tartlets is also here. After reading Sugar Baby (see the review here), I was excited to read …
The World in Your Lunch Box: The Wacky History and Weird Science of Everyday Foods This is a Juvenile literature title with histories of favorite lunch box food items. Author Claire Earmer has selected different appropriate lunch box fare (sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, …
How to Make Salad: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Perfect Salads and Dressings About as basic a topic as there is: nothing but salads and salad dressings. I got the entire series when it first came out and and found these little one-topic books are …
Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Homemade Cheeses We eat a lot of cheese at home, so making fresh cheese is of interest to the whole family. And cheese isn’t made instantaneously – it is an art form made slowly in the kitchen. Ricki Carroll, …
“Every great drink starts with a plant,” so says Amy Stewart in The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Greatest Drinks.” Stewart should know; she’s also the author of Flower Confidential and Wicked Plants. The Drunken Botanist explores every botanical (160 species in …
When I first opened this book up in the late 90’s, baking with natural leavening seemed foreign yet exciting, and this was my first introduction to it. The recipes in this cookbook are not quick and easy versions of your favorite breads – they are …