Even before the days of Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, many an amateur chef and blogger has nurtured dreams of starting a little old cooking blog and having it go viral, become a beloved smash hit, and turn into a nationally renowned cookbook. (Or maybe that’s just me. Anyone interested in my […]
Christmas is just around the corner, and shopping days are dwindling rapidly. If you’re in the market for surefire hits, gifts that will delight everyone on your list, look no further than this roundup. We’ve collected the biggest books of the season, the ones that are flying off the shelves and getting rave reviews from critics […]
For friends and family who love to cook (and those who like to eat and look at pretty food pictures), you really can’t go wrong giving the gift of a cookbook. Just make sure to match the cuisine with the recipient’s interests—give one of Yotam Ottolenghi‘s painterly tomes to a vegetarian, a gluten-free book from Silvana […]
If you’re a home cook, at some point you’ve probably thought, Why don’t I just quit my job and start a cooking blog? But if you’re anything like the rest of us, your plans were derailed by a child having a tantrum on the kitchen floor, an end-of-day email from your boss, or the realization that you forgot to […]
Sore neck. Eyes glazing over. The spinning wheel of death. Sometimes, it’s good to step away from the screen and pick up a book. But just because you’re putting down the crack that is the latest new app doesn’t mean you have to read Moby Dick. There are lots of ways to indulge your guilty […]