Email Author Jenn Garbee

Stories by Jenn Garbee

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  The Latest Cupcake Trendr Cannabis Cupcakes

  published Apr 04, 2013

  With so much talk of late about cupcakes and legalizing marijuana, we should have known a Cannabis Cupcakes cookbook wasn't too far behind. "What better way to take advantage of both [the cupcake and... More >>

• Best New Baking Book: Bake It Like You Mean It

  published Apr 02, 2013

  Really, April is the ideal time to Bake it Like You Mean it, as we could probably all use a little post-Spring Break malakofftorte a la raymo (chocolate ladyfinger cake, here filled with Kahlua cream)... More >>

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  Cookbook of the Week: Vegetable Literacy + Deborah Madison's Chive + Saffron Crepes Recipe

  published Mar 29, 2013

  Today's cookbook market is flooded with vegetable-focused books from every vegan, sustainable and backyard-grown perspective. But when Deborah Madison promises Vegetable Literacy, we listen. We were... More >>

• Baking Books: Modern Art Desserts, Where The Pastry Arts + Museum Art Collections Collide

  published Mar 28, 2013

  San Francisco pastry chef Caitlin Freeman's new baking book, Modern Art Desserts: Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Confections and Frozen Treats based on Iconic Works of Art, is an edible reflection of the... More >>

• Q & A With Costco's Syd Birenbaum: Best Bargain Wines, $18,000 Sales + His Cure For Your Never-Ending Headache

  published Mar 25, 2013

  If your wine-buying strategy at Big Box discount stores typically involves grabbing a case and getting out poste-haste, you might want to reconsider sticking around for a chat with Syd Birenbaum, the ... More >>

• Cookbook of the Week: The Complete Bocuse, Easter Wines + A Hay-Cooked Ham (!) Recipe

  published Mar 22, 2013

  As Easter approaches, we repent. Late last year, The Complete Bocuse, a nearly 800-page tribute to Paul Bocuse's modern French cuisine, went straight from our desk to our permanent cookbook shelf wit... More >>

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  Cookbook Review (And Weekend Project!): Hand-Crafted Candy Bars + A 20 Minute Chocolate Nougat Recipe

  published Mar 15, 2013

  If you're looking for a Sunday kitchen project that doesn't involve corned beef and cabbage, how about a little St. Patrick's Day candy makingr For that, we suggest Hand-Crafted Candy Bars by local au... More >>

• Book Review: Farms with a Future + 10 Tips For New Farmers (And MBAs)

  published Mar 12, 2013

  Dreaming of ditching city life for your own farm sharer Before you sign over the cash for those rolling hills, we highly recommend you read Farms with a Future: Creating and Growing a Sustainable Farm... More >>

• Cookbook of the Week: Home Made Summer (Almost) + A Recipe For A Negroni Ice Pop

  published Mar 11, 2013

  If the recent weather has you already craving a fantastic Home Made Summer, good news: Yvette Van Boven's latest book is almost here. Van Boven is a Dutch food stylist and illustrator who owns a popul... More >>

• Books: Addicted to Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us

  published Mar 05, 2013

  Michael Moss' recent cover article in the New York Times Magazine, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, served as a preview for the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter's latest food industry ... More >>

• Cookbook Review: The Way to Fry , Southern-Style + A Fried Cocktail (!) Recipe

  published Mar 04, 2013

  Disclosure: We have a secret crush on Norman King, author of The Way to Fry. The Southern Living editor has that old school, nerd next door charm. Meaning he looks like he has decades of plaid shirt a... More >>

• Is Le Creuset's Lifetime Warranty Legitr After Several Cassoulet-Free Weeks, We Find Out

  published Mar 01, 2013

  We love our Dutch oven. Really love it. It never argues over $85 billion budget cuts or sends Kardashian-sighting Tweets. And it makes one hell of a cassoulet. But we recently wondered, by sudden nece... More >>

• Cookbook of the Week: Sicily, The Postcard Version + A Coffee Granita Recipe

  published Feb 26, 2013

  The upside of the current trend of hyper-localized cookbooks: You can go to Sicily over the weekend without leaving your kitchen. The latest from Phaidon, Sicily: A Culinary Journey through Sicilian C... More >>

• Cookbook Review: Nigellissima, The (British) "Italian" Celebrity Chef + Nigella Lawson's "Tiramisini" Recipe

  published Feb 25, 2013

  British celebrity chef Nigella Lawson's latest cookbook, Nigellissima, focuses on Easy, Italian-Inspired Recipes per the subtitle and BBC series by the same name. Nigellissima promises to be, in essen... More >>

• Cookbook Review: The Flavors of Belize May Not Be Perfect, But It's Hard Not to Love a Fried Breadfruit (!) Recipe

  published Feb 19, 2013

  A good cookbook collection does not look like it came straight out of a food stylist's studio. Sure, it will include several near-perfect volumes, those monumental titles that still capture your atten... More >>

• Q & A With Cheesemaker Christine Maguire: A Farm Stay at Rinconada Dairy + Cheese, Jam, Bacon!

  published Feb 12, 2013

  Fantastic handmade cheese, bacon from backyard pigs and homemade jam made from farm fruit aren't exactly the typical Jane and Michael Stern road-trip finds. If you've tried any of the cheeses crafted ... More >>

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  Cookbook of the Week: Fuchsia Dunlop's Every Grain of Rice + A Quick Spicy Sesame Noodle Recipe

  published Feb 08, 2013

  If you are a Fuchsia Dunlop fan (you are, we hope), you probably already have a copy of her new cookbook, Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese Home Cooking, and are halfway through a lunch of braised c... More >>

• 5 California Winemakers On The Best "Ripe and Fleshy" Valentine's Chocolate + Wine Pairings

  published Feb 07, 2013

  Chocolate and wine. Could there be a more classic Valentine Day's pairingr There's one small problem: "The flavors of [dark] chocolate and wine aren't always that compatible," as a Food and Wine artic... More >>

• Product Review: The Pizza Baking Steel, A Thin Crust Game Changerr

  published Feb 06, 2013

  On our quest for the perfect pizza crust, we've broken pizza stones (more than one), tried all of the mock pizza oven tricks (Bricks!) and talked with chefs like Jeff Mahin over at Stella Rossa about ... More >>

• Betty [Crocker] Goes Vegan! The Cookbook + "Her" Recipe For Vegan Bisquick

  published Feb 04, 2013

  What happens when Betty Goes Veganr Pull out the Aqua Net and your best pair of Silver Lake stilettos. Brooklyn-based authors Annie and Dan Shannon are serving up vegan bacon cheeseburger hash, Greek ... More >>

• The Magnificent Chicken Should Come With A Warning (You're Going To Want A Chicken) + 5 Magnificent Chickens

  published Jan 28, 2013

  Some get excited over celebrity chef sightings; for us, it's books about chickens. The Magnificent Chicken, a follow-up to Brooklyn photographer Tamara Staples' out-of-print book The Fairest Fowl (200... More >>

• Two & A Half Buck Chuck: Trader Joe's $1.99 Wine Days Are Over + Does it Need a Name Changer

  published Jan 25, 2013

  Trader Joe's famous (Infamousr) wine, Two-Buck Chuck, is getting a 50 cent price hike. As reported in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the Charles Shaw label wine has retailed for $1.99 for more than a ... More >>

• Cookbook of the Week: The Lebanese Kitchen + An Easy Eggplant-Pomegranate Salad Recipe

  published Jan 23, 2013

  Among the glories of January: leisurely flipping through a fall cookbook release that deserves dedicated attention, like The Lebanese Kitchen, without a single holiday to-do list. The latest in Phaido... More >>

• Foraging, A Feast of Weeds + a Wild (And Confused) Infused Grappa Recipe

  published Jan 22, 2013

  Forage muchr Chefs do it, Pascal Baudar does it (feel free to join him). Even UCLA professor of Italian and culinary history Luigi Ballerini does it, judging by his latest book, A Feast of Weeds: A Li... More >>

• "Artisan" Instant Coffeer Just Add Panela

  published Jan 21, 2013

  Sooner or later, a modern marriage of the current artisan and coffee crazes was inevitable. Still, when that box of Jiva coffee cubes landed on our desk, we found the idea of 'artisan' instant coffee ... More >>