Cookbooks
If the reality TV show is built around gimmicky challenges, just what can one expect from a cookbook touting the winning recipes - maybe organization around those recipes, for starters? But the new book has provided enough information for non-viewers to hold their own at a cocktail party - until they can make a dash for the canapes.
By Betty Hallock
Los Angeles Times 2008-04-09 (entry)
In 'A Baker's Odyssey,' author Greg Patent cooks with immigrants, children of immigrants and their grandchildren to learn and record secrets of ethnic baking from more than 30 nations, including Italy, Nigeria, Austria and India.
By Daniel Zwerdling
National Public Radio 2008-01-27 (entry)
From the pleasures of pecans and the passion for ingredients, to the sweets of Italy and easy Indian favorites, a compendium of the year's best books on food and cooking.
By Bonnie S. Benwick
The Washington Post 2007-12-05 (entry)
From cozy to worldly, from a chef's knowledge to environmentally sensitive farm specialties, a collection of the year's noteworthy books on cooking and food.
The New York Times 2007-12-02 (entry)
Internet-based cookbook venture gets 10,000 hits on first day of business; for about $35, a cooking enthusiast gets a binder containing up to 100 favorite recipes from Epicurious, or from a personal collection.
By Joanne Kaufman
The New York Times 2007-11-12 (entry)
Dark-haired domestic goddess, in her new book, helps us scramble out of our own mealtime ruts with a mashup of gourmet and practicality. In her pantry: fancy mustard and fine jam and spicy sambal paste and hoisin sauce, along with Skippy peanut butter and Progresso beans and A.1. steak sauce.
By Rebekah Denn
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) 2007-11-07 (entry)
In this fine memoir of a culinary journey, we learn that the food books Judith Jones has edited form an impeccable curriculum of world foods - rigorous, responsible and delightfully authentic, with a gutsy connection to the land and water. But we long to learn more of the struggle, the disappointments and self-doubt that must have come along.
By Dorothy Kalins
The New York Times 2007-11-04 (entry)
After a culinary career of 30 years, Jonathan Waxman's debut cookbook is a road map of recipes from restaurants of his bicoastal past and a testament to his understanding of flavorings and layerings, but not every detail is tended.
By Amy Scattergood
Los Angeles Times 2007-09-19 (entry)
See also
Laura Shapiro, in "Julia Child" writes about the chef who taught us how to think about food and understand it; Nancy Verde Barr's book, "Backstage With Julia: My Years With Julia Child," is full of endearing anecdotes.
By Dorothy Kalins
The New York Times 2007-08-26 (entry)
A few new cookbooks for those with diet-related disease have words of wisdom for all of us: Adapt everyday cooking to healthy meals that can be prepared quickly, practice portion control, shop carefully and read food labels.
By Kathie Smith
Toledo Blade 2007-08-14 (entry)
Television cook Anjum Anand, dubbed "Indian Nigella," has a way with mangoes that is making her books about simple and delicious Indian cooking fly off the shelves faster than the young wizard can catch a golden snitch.
By JENNY RIGTERINK
Daily Mail (UK) 2007-08-11 (entry)
Smithsonian exhibition explores links between Americans and the foods they produce, prepare, preserve, and present at the table, and through those links traces the evolution of the kitchen; the exhibition is traveling to rural sites between now and 2010 -- is your town on the list?
Smithsonian Institution (entry)
See also
In 700-pages that are part history, part guidebook and part cookbook, Fred Plotkin, in revised 'Italy for the Gourmet Traveler,' returns to authenticity of this country's meals, including small portions of pasta, judiciously sauced and only sprinkled with cheese.
By Susan Reigler
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (entry)
