COOKBOOK REVIEWS
Notable cookbooks 2017: A Nod to Tradition with Extras
When it comes to satisfying our palates, we're voyeuristic, but also loyal to familiar foods. What we want from cookbooks can venture from recipes that show us how to improve on old standards, to ones that are lavish surprises but easy to master...
Cream of the Crop: Notable Cookbooks for 2014
Cookbooks don’t pair well with doctrine. Thus it is a pleasure to report that this year’s best have broken with the past. There is less dictating of ideology ...
The Delicious Dozen 2013 Notable Cookbooks and Culinary Reads
A messy kitchen indeed. The scraps stuck to frying pans and hardened to the broiler, and the different oil traces left on dutch ...
Notable Cookbooks and Culinary Reads of 2012
American cuisine is as varied as our terrain, growing seasons, immigrant influences and artisan trends. Our choices continue to delight ever-impatient palates ....
The Most Delectable Surprises Inside 2011 Notable Cookbooks
Selecting ten notable cookbooks for 2011 is like running a culinary pageant in a recipe tester’s kitchen. Each recipe is judged by the ingenuity of its ...
Must-have cookbooks of 2010
I read cookbooks – more than 100 a year – looking for tempting, healthy recipes that feature creative plays on New England ingredients ...
"Soup for Syria" is Soup for the Soul
Yes, soup can be healing, and that's the promise of “Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity. "The 208-page cookbook has recipes from over 80 chefs,...
Setting the Vegan Table for a Long Stay A cookbook review of Bryant Terry’s “Vegan Soul Kitchen”
Plenty of Southern women have claimed that all that’s needed to keep a good man stayed put is a breakfast ...
Vegan cookbooks even omnivores will crave
Raise your spatula if you ever expected vegan cuisine to gain the popularity and cachet that it has. Almost monthly, new vegan cookbooks from large and small publishers hit my doorstep. Many contain vibrant ...