This slim compendium offers a thorough overview of Asian fare—from Malaysia to Vietnam to Japan, you’ll find tempting dishes to prepare and savor. The author-restaurateur (she has her own Asian-themed eatery) spent several years in Asia learning her craft, and her experience shows. So does her love for the rich array of Asian cultures and [...]
If you’re curious about Thai cooking and want to learn more, Ken Hom’s book would be a good place to start: he presents traditional recipes in a very accessible way while also giving them fresh flair. (The grilled chicken is a great fusion dish!) Recipes span two pages and are accompanied by step-by-step photographs and [...]
Ah, a cookbook organized after my own heart! The award-winning chef of Oleana—a restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts—has arranged her recipes by their dominant spice families: recipes featuring saffron, ginger and vanilla grouped together, for example, while another section covers curry powder, turmeric and fenugreek. (Each chapter also has several pages of descriptive passages about the [...]
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Here’s a pleasant surprise: a Mexican cookbook starring light, fresh, easy fare. (While I’m a big fan of Mexican cuisine, sometimes it can be a bit too time-consuming and too heavy on meat, sour cream, and cheese for my taste.) From crispy lime-cornbread cookies to squash blossom soup, the recipes presented at this vegetarian table [...]
Finally—a gluten-free cookbook that achieves its purported results! While some baked goods—quick breads and muffins, for example—easily shed their gluten-containing flours (wheat, rye, barley), most take a bit of tweaking. Among her many tasty flour combinations, Annalise has come up with a winning one for pizza crust: it’s made of rice, potato, tapioca and millet. [...]
What a journey! From Kenya to Mozambique, Marcus Samuelsson—an Ethiopian immigrant who was adopted by Swedish parents when he was a toddler—travels the length of his native continent. Packed with cultural insights, narrative stories, and photographs worthy of National Geographic, this cookbook is truly stunning. Just leafing through its pages has expanded my travel dreams—I [...]
Every page tempts the eyes and tongue: sweet rambutans, tangy kumquats, crisp carambolas… If you don’t recognize any of these names, you will after thumbing through this eponymous book—Melissa’s Produce is the country’s largest distributor of specialty produce. From its humble beginnings in 1984, it now regularly stocks 800 varieties of exotic fruit and vegetables. [...]
Talk about a combo deal—this blend of travel, food stories and recipes will make you want to hop on the next flight to Southeast Asia….or Patagonia, or Russia, or anywhere else your taste buds lead you. Anik bicycles through plains, along riverbanks, through forests and over hills to find the next great meal. Along with [...]
May 5, 2009, the Berkley Public Library During this talk, I briefly recapped the basic nutrition concepts we covered in the first session and expanded them to cover more aspects of what it means to be a qualitarian: where food products come from, how they’re processed, and how they affect our personal health and the [...]
Although I savor the occasional glass of grass-fed animal milk (raw if I can get it), I’m also a big fan of non-dairy milks. They’re a nice change of pace, for one thing, and there are endless varieties of them: rice, oat, hazelnut, hemp, almond…it seems like almost any nut, seed or grain can be [...]
