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    May 22, 2012

    The California Homemade Food Act: A Progress Report

    Imagine a world where people could sell food prepared in their own kitchens. Sounds like a pre-Industrial Revolution bake sale, but it could very well be the near future. That is, if the Cottage Food Bill passes. The California Homemade Food Act (AB 1616), which is currently in Congress, would make ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    A Recipe From the Chef: Marcy Goldman's Incredible Passover Rolls

    Why is this holiday different from all other holidays? For starters, you eat a lot of matzo. Passover, which begins tonight with the first seder or holiday feast, commemorates the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt, after they were freed from slavery. According to tradition, they were forc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2012

    Weekend Baking: The Pie it Forward Cookbook A Chocolate Stout Pie Recipe

    Those summer berry and fall holiday pies may get all of the seasonal baking attention, but spring really is the ideal time to Pie it Forward, isn't it? There are those rainy weekends best left to indoor dough rolling, the partly cloudy ones that aren't quite ready for berry picking outings, and thos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

    No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Dutch Ovens: 5 Other Kitchen Tools You Won't Need to Buy If You Own One

    ​I got into an elevator empty-handed one recent morning and by the end of a short two-story ride, was the proud owner of a bright orange Le Creuset Dutch oven. A recently married co-worker who'd likely been inundated with new cookware from the registry was trying to get rid of it, for free. "M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Buche de Noël Meringue Mushroom Tips From A Master Pastry Chef A Recipe

    As we can imagine few things more miserable than stepping foot in any retail store on the busiest shopping day of the year, we will be spending the day after Thanksgiving drafting our holiday baking plan of action. Baking Friday, if you will. Up this year: Buche de Noël. Home baking frustrations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    Cookbook Review: Food from Many Greek Kitchens A Recipe For Sesame Rings

    ​In the cookbook world, there is a longstanding beauty versus brains dichotomy. We judge a cookbook by its stunning photographs (admiring each page, then promptly relegating the book to the coffee table) or by its encyclopedic recipe index and straightforward prose (ah, now this is going to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Best New Semi-Local Whole Wheat Flour: Community Grains' Winter Wheat

    JgarbeeCalifornia Grown And Milled Whole Wheat​You might say Community Grains has a now-typical California restaurant-to-home-kitchen story, one most often recounted whenever Nancy Silverton, Campanile and La Brea Bakery wind up in the same sentence. The small Woodland-based mill also sprang u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2011

    Breaking Bread with Bicycle Bread Company

    T. NguyenStephen Gordon of Bicycle Bread Company​ In the history of barters, there have been a few notables: a red paper clip for a house. Fifteen million dollars, Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, and three first round picks for Wayne Gretzky, Marty McSorley, and Mike Krushelnyski (

  • LA Life

    March 17, 2011

    Cakes of All Colors, Delivered With a Song

    T. NguyenStephen Gordon of Bicycle Bread Company​ In the history of barters, there have been a few notables: a red paper clip for a house. Fifteen million dollars, Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, and three first round picks for Wayne Gretzky, Marty McSorley, and Mike Krushelnyski (

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2010

    WHEN DID CUPCAKES GET SO UPPITY?

    T. NguyenStephen Gordon of Bicycle Bread Company​ In the history of barters, there have been a few notables: a red paper clip for a house. Fifteen million dollars, Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, and three first round picks for Wayne Gretzky, Marty McSorley, and Mike Krushelnyski (

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Q & A With Nick Malgieri: His New Baking Book, Food Bloggers The Occupational Hazards of Blueberry Muffin Recipes

    AmazonNick Malgieri​Baking instructor, cookbook author and generally very funny guy Nick Malgieri was in town last week, giving a talk at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. Just for fun, of course, and as part of his current book tour. Malgieri's tenth book, Bake!: Essential ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    The Return of Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day Project

    Evan Kleiman is baking pies again. This might not seem like a particularly momentous announcement -- a chef baking pies -- were it not that Kleiman, chef-owner of Angeli Caffé, cookbook author and host of KCRW's radio show Good Food, baked pies every single day for months last year as part of her P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Soft Pretzels From The Amish Cook's Baking Book: A Recipe

    In yesterday's post, The Best Baking and Pastry Books of 2009, we promised the recipe for soft pretzels from Lovina Eicher's terrific baking book, The Amish Cook's Baking Book, which we named Best of 2009 for All-Purpose Bakers. As we noted in the roundup, the pretzels are easier than most, taking 3 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    The Best Baking and Pastry Books of 2009

    This wasn't the greatest year for "keeper" cookbooks. Are you really going to whip up fussy 6-hour chicken wings on Monday game nights and weekend beef stew that takes so long to make you could drive to the French Laundry and back before it's ready? Well, maybe. It turns out 2009 was a stellar yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Holiday Cookie Recipes: Akasha's Chai-spiced Vegan Snickerdoodles Vegan Baking Tips

    We strive to keep our political promises, so we're putting that vegan snickerdoodle recipe on this year's holiday bill early. Akasha Richmond's version at her namesake restaurant is so heavily spiced with ginger, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves that even the vegan-averse will hardly miss the buttery f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    A Conversation with Baker Jim Lahey His Recipe for No-Knead Bread

    Sarah GoodfriendBaker Jim Lahey​Baker Jim Lahey, owner of New York's Sullivan Street Bakery and author of the recently published cookbook My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method, was in town the other day on a brief 2 day leg of his current book tour. He sat down with us to talk a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day Contest: The End of Pies In Sight

    For some months now, Evan Kleiman has been baking pies--and baking pies and baking pies--as part of her Pie-A-Day project for KCRW. Now that it's November, Kleiman is nearing the end of her pastry marathon. As the culminating event, KCRW will host a Good Food Pie Contest on Saturday, November 14th, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    Riverside Cook is Finalist in Ocean Spray Cranberry Contest Her Red-Ribbon Recipe

    Cooking Contest CentralLaureen Pittman (left) at the Pillsbury Bake-Off​Riverside's own Laureen Pittman has been selected as one of four finalists in Ocean Spray's Ultimate Cranberry Recipe Contest consumer category. On October 5th, Pittman will face off against the three other finalists in Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    1959 Pillsbury Bake-off Cookbook Reissued: Mastering the Art of Vintage Cooking

    Although many Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbooks have been published during the years, it's the 1959 book that is the classic, assembling the best 1000 winning recipes in the Best of the Bake-Off Collection. The book, which Wiley is reissuing in a facsimile of the original edition on its 60th anniversary, ... More >>

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