I love spending time in the cookbook section of the bookstore, ogling creative food styling and searching for dinner inspiration – but it takes some serious salivating to get me to actually purchase a cookbook to take home. I’ve often judged a cookbook by it’s photography, only to discover same-old recipes that fall flat on [...]
COOKBOOKS, FOOD + DRINKS | August 22, 2010 | by Kim Vallee
Robin Burnside wrote a cookbook that promotes a lifestyle from the farm to your table. One aspect of The Homesteader’s Kitchen that I enjoy is her desire to teach people how to make your salad dressings and sauces from scratch. Making your own sauce or dressing is healthier, tastier, and it often only takes a [...]
COOKBOOKS, FOOD + DRINKS | August 19, 2010 | by Kim Vallee
We all want to preserve the goodness and fabulous taste of the summer fruits and vegetables. If you are like me and need help to spruce your skills, I suggest that you take a look at The Art of Preserving written by Rick Field and Rebecca Courchesne for Williams-Sonoma. What I like about The Art [...]
COOKBOOKS, FOOD + DRINKS | February 10, 2010 | by Kim Vallee
My friend Harry Wakefield of MoCo Loco featured the brand new Moleskine’s wine journal and the recipe journal on his blog. Until the moment I began to examine how practical the page templates were built, I thought I could resist. But the guys at Moleskine did a too good job that I could not resist [...]
January 5, 2010 | by Kim
If you bought the first cookbook of Shelley Adams, you are here for a treat. Her second cookbook is even better. What [...]
January 3, 2010 | by Kim
If I was living in New York City, Long Island and the Tri-State Region, I would be an angry customer of Cablevision [...]
November 10, 2009 | by Kim
What a pretty sight! These are pasta made by food historian and food teacher Oretta Zanini De Vita. As you can see, [...]
October 5, 2009 | by Kim
Balancing salt and sweet is popular with chefs. Simply think of caramels with fleur de sel or molten chocolate cake served with [...]
COOKBOOKS, FOOD + DRINKS | May 11, 2011 | by Heather Watterworth