This is a year where themed foodie gifts just leapt out at me. Let's start with the bar. Two great books to come out this year were The Dead Rabbit's Grocery and Grog Drinks Menu and Death and Co. If you know a budding bartender and have a
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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
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Fried Cauliflower Frittata Rhubarb Blintzes Green Pea Schnitzel topped with a fried egg Beefsteak from Fresh Mushrooms These sound like dishes you might find from a contemporary chef using the farmers markets to re-tool heavy Eastern European dishes. But no, they were published in 1938 by teacher and restaurant
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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
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I asked my friends what some of their favorite food books for children are and I got an avalanche of replies. These aren't cookbooks, but story books with food as a subject. Since this is a category that I think can never have too many suggestions, here
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