This is the first time my Best of list is made only of books I actually cooked from. Just looking at all the covers I understand why. This year's cookbook trend was geography. Most of my favorites were written about the food of a particular culinary culture or place. This has always ...read more
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There was a moment during the early 2000s when all of a sudden it became easy to find beautiful European varieties of lentils on the shelves of Trader Joes or Erewhon or Whole Foods. My chef Kathy and I would empty the store shelves of every bag of Pardina or ...read more