If you thought salads just involved lettuce, think again! Joyce Goldstein presents a treasure trove of salad traditions from all over the world…and none of them are just lettuce. The term “salad” derives from the Latin sal, or salt — a salad is simply a dish that’s seasoned in part with salt. From grain-based pilafs [...]
Beautiful recipes, beautiful pictures, beautiful ideas. Louisa Shafia’s collection — appropriately subtitled “Cooking For an Eco-Conscious Life” — presents a multitude of ways to use ingredients ranging from everyday to unusual. Her divided-into-seasons recipes are punctuated by essays on everything from how to incorporate native plants into your garden to how to host potlucks and [...]
Wow. There is simply no other word to express my admiration for King Arthur’s Whole Grain Baking cookbook. It is a culinary tome — one of the crown jewels, really — that’s in the same class as The Joy of Cooking. The thorough and well-chosen recipe selection is bested only by its treasure trove of [...]
Want some culture along with your recipes? How about some great photos and inadvertent travel tips? In what is possibly the coolest collection of recipes I’ve ever seen, Andreas Viestad manages to supply all of the above. His lush cookbook is based on the cuisines along the the fabled spice routes: he begins in South [...]
Terry Walters has such a passion for fresh food and such an imaginative approach to recipes that I didn’t even realize this was a vegan cookbook until I was halfway through the “Summer” section. (The recipes are arranged by seasons.) Her commonsense, delicious suggestions prove that plant-based foods are unlimited in their possibilities, even for [...]
Eureka! I’ve finally stumbled across a cookbook that combines my love of ancient Greece with my fascination for food! In her search for authentic recipes, food historian and innovative cookbook author Francine Segan has delved into everything from Apicius’ On Cookery — written in the first century — to writings by Aristotle and Hippocrates. She [...]
Don’t have any lemongrass in the pantry? Short on kefir? Out of cockles? (Okay, the last one isn’t something I usually have, either.) David Joachim’s book is the most complete list of substitutions I’ve ever seen — he goes far, far beyond the “flour, sugar, eggs” list you usually find at the back of a [...]
I LOVE peanut butter. (Specifically, 100% organic Valencia crunchy salted from Trader Joe’s.) I could probably eat an entire jar at one sitting, but I hold myself back. With effort. So imagine my delight when I stumbled across a cookbook of international recipes that ALL feature peanut butter! Mashed sweet potatoes with peanut butter. West [...]
Deborah doesn’t make me just want to rush out to the nearest farmer’s market, she makes me want to run out into my backyard to see what edibles I can find. Local Flavors is exactly about that: finding taste in unexpected places. From normally-stuck-in-a-corner root vegetables like celeriac and rutabaga to spring-is-here! aromatics like scapes [...]
Once again, Ghanian-born Dorinda Hafner takes us on a cultural/culinary journey, this time through the Caribbean islands. While a few of them are well-known, several of them are visited by cruise ships but languish in culinary obscurity — have you ever heard of Tickle Me Belly pancakes from Dominica, for example? Fish Mousse from Guadeloupe? [...]
