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 […]
Fall is cooking weather, if only because you can finally turn on the oven without transforming your apartment into a fiery face-melting inferno. This year, cooler temperatures are accompanied by a particularly strong harvest of cookbooks from celebrity chefs like Ree Drummond, Giada De Laurentiis, Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, and Yotam Ottolenghi. Check out these new and forthcoming cookbooks from the […]
Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to cook under the direction of a professional chef? Is your answer to every food question “let’s pickle it”? Do you ever wonder how you’d fare in a prison kitchen? If the answer to any of these is “yes” (or if we’ve just piqued your curiosity), […]
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 your New Year’s resolution was to forsake sugar in 2016 and you’ve held on this long, then I applaud you. Making a dietary change like that is a challenge, and holding true for over a month is impressive. But even if you’re like me and slip the occasional candy bar into the cart after […]