Freshman in the Kitchen | Cookbook Review

The Sussman brothers are recent college graduates with a wide range of cooking experiences; from their time cooking together at a summer camp where Max was the head chef, to their different restaurant experiences, diners for Eli and upscale establishments for Max. It is this range of cooking experiences that give this cookbook its unique attitude towards food, unpretentious and yet passionate about creativity and quality. Max and Eli take all the fear out of cooking for the first-time cook,

Great Depression Cooking With Clara: How to Make Baked Apples (Weekend Video Spotlight)

In an ongoing series of Youtube videos taped by her grandson, Christopher Cannucciari, 94 year old Clara shares recipes and tips that show how people cooked during The Great Depression, in the hope of providing culinary inspiration for those who’ve only read about the time in history books. Like my own late Italian grandmother, Clara is passionate about food and the ways one can use it to bring people closer together. Just in time for fall, below is her new video recipe for Cinnamon Baked A

The Appeal of Home Canning and Preserving

Old cooking traditions are hot again. According to an article on the Globe and Mail , the younger generations enrolled in canning workshops. I feel that it is simply a continuation of the grow your own vegetable garden movement and the desire to eat better. My mother was running her own business when I was a kid so she did not have the time. Now that she works less, she takes the time to pickle fresh cucumbers and make her own ketchup. Since she lives 130 km from me, I do not think of asking

I need a serious, simple, general-purpose cookbook.

What is an example of a cookbook wherein the recipes have had the hell tested out of them? After seeing Julie Julia I have a hankering to get back into the workshop and start cooking again. But I've been burned (ha) many times in the past by recipes that don't seem to have been tested on a five year-old, let alone a gourmand. Some cookbooks suffer from poor or nonexistent editing, and I hate the whimsical drifty line drawings which illustrate some of lamest of them. My current sta

Julia Child’s back in the kitchen - Blogelicious

That her name remains so recognizable after her death five years ago, reflects all any foodie needs to know: they need to appreciate and know her through her cookbooks, TV shows and mostly one on one in the kitchen with her cooking. … Continue reading from the original source: Julia Child's back in the kitchen - Blogelicious

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