Paula Wolfert

Q & A With Nancy Harmon Jenkins: On the Mediterranean Diet, Her Cookbook(s) What Took Us So Long

For many of us whose idea of good food is a bowl of olives, a plate of mezze, a huge dish of paella or Catalan soup or lamb with couscous, Nancy Harmon Jenkins' cookbook The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, or her newer The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, is one of the basic books of the kitchen. First ... More >>

Cooking Drinking: Three New High Alcohol Cookbooks

Booze-themed cookbooks have never been terribly high on our everyday shopping lists, but there are those weekend moments when The Food of Morocco isn't quite what we're craving. Okay, that's not really true. We'd be content with Paula Wolfert's harissa any day of the week. But we're all for occasion ... More >>

Paula Wolfert Comes to L.A.'s Central Library: Moroccan Food, Favorite Kitchen Tools Issues of Sous-Vide

If you love couscous, Moroccan cuisine and the many glorious cookbooks of Paula Wolfert (not necessarily in that order), you have someplace to be this Saturday morning. Wolfert will be speaking at downtown's Central Library in an event brought to you by the Culinary Historians of Southern California ... More >>

James Beard 2012 Award Winners

The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>

2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition

Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>

Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life

Lucques' 9th Annual Cassoulet Night Is Coming: Make Reservations Now

If you're not doing anything really important for dinner on Sun., March 4 -- and maybe even if you are -- you now have someplace to be. Every year for one night, Lucques co-owners Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne host a cassoulet night in place of one of their customary Sunday Suppers. This year will ... More >>

Cookbook of the Week: Poulet, When All You Want Is An Honest Chicken A One Pot Coconut Chicken Recipe

amazon​Holiday goose, turkey, duck. All great, but in another week or two, and we'll be happy to get back to that tried-and-true weeknight chicken. Good thing in Poulet: More than 50 Remarkable Meals that Exalt the Honest Chicken there is plenty of interesting poultry recipe fodder for anyone ... More >>

The Best Cookbooks of 2011 (And Sure, They Double As Great Last Minute Gifts)

jgarbeeStill Life With (Good) 2011 Cookbooks​Because if you still haven't gotten a gift for someone of genuine or obligatory importance on your list (your closest friend; your boss/mother in law), check those Amazon availability lists right now. Or better yet, stop by your local bookstore. W ... More >>

My Last Supper: The Next Course, At Least For Albert Adría Roy Choi

amazon​In My Last Supper: The Next Course, author Melanie Dunea's sequel to her first book by the same name, the pedigreed photographer rounds up a new crew of 50 high-profile chefs and includes a recipe from each in the book's appendix. The main draw here is the same as in her first edition ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Paula Wolfert's The Food of Morocco, Now That's A Cookbook

There are a handful of cookbook authors -- Diana Kennedy (hyper local Mexican cuisine), Maida Heatter (home baking), Paula Wolfert (Moroccan cuisine) -- whose personal obsession not only with cooking, but truly with a culinary culture, is so focused, so resolute, that when they finally release anoth ... More >>

Couscous Festival 2011: Start Your Couscouseries

It's time to get out your couscouserie again. Or rather, time to let Farid Zadi get out his. Zadi and his wife and business partner Susan Park are hosting their second annual Couscous Festival, Sunday October 23 from noon to 6 p.m. Last year's festival, you may recall, took place in Pasadena, comple ... More >>

Robuchon's $18 Algerian Egg Roll Two Easy Recipes

Chong B. OoiRobuchon's Langoustine Wrapped in Brick Pastry​ Paula Wolfert introduced North African pastry leaves to Americans using the Moroccan name for them: warka. Over the years we've received a lot of emails from people who had trouble finding warka pastry leaves in the U.S. However, most ... More >>

Carmageddon Countdown Clock: Your 405 Freeway Closure Kitchen Timer

if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('4edcf15e-b92b-4e06-9843-0c8f61fe00f6');Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)​As you should know by now, the 405 will be shut down for 2 days, between July 16th and 17th. Since ... More >>

Cooking With the Critic

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Paula Wolfert and The Watched Pot Her New Book

A. ScattergoodPaula Wolfert considers a pot of couscous​ As you may know, if you got your fix of Merguez sausage, roasted lamb and Tuareg weaponry this past weekend in Pasadena, Paula Wolfert was in town for the Couscous Festival. The celebrated cookbook author, couscous expert and friend of ... More >>

Couscous Festival This Weekend: Start Your Tagines...

A. ScattergoodSpicy Beef Cheek Tagine​ A reminder that you will have plenty of couscous -- and poulet frit, or Algerian fried chicken; and rabbit tagine with figs and almonds; and Merguez sliders with harissa; and shrimp brik; and oh, one could go on and on -- to eat this weekend, as the Cousc ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/13-9/17

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Ovine: It means sheeplike. Food writers don't use that one nearly enough." Top 10 Food Words We Love. "A professional knife sharpener is a beautifully atavistic profession, not unlike being a cobbler or a Shaker chairmake ... More >>

Ecole De Cuisine Pasadena: Farid Zadi's New Cooking School A Moules à la Moutarde Recipe

A. ScattergoodChef Farid Zadi, at Ecole de Cuisine Pasadena​ Those of us who have followed Farid Zadi's career -- at the Le Cordon Bleu School in Pasadena, where he was a chef instructor for the last six years, or via his blog chefzadi, or through Charles Perry's excellent 2007 profile of the ... More >>

Best Spice Shop: The Spice Station

J. Ritz​If you happen to be cooking your way through the tomes of Madhur Jaffrey, Claudia Roden, Paula Wolfert, and other authors who mine the depths of specific cuisines, you know the ups and downs of assembling ingredients. Some days it's a joy to stop at three different shops to find the sp ... More >>

Q & A With Evan Kleiman: More Pies, 6,000 Interviews Trading Cooking Schools for Apprenticeships

A. ScattergoodEvan Kleiman, at Angeli Caffe​ Angeli Caffé has been a Melrose Avenue fixture, a destination, a refuge, the source for a fine plate of spaghetti alla checca, for a quarter of a century now. Twenty-six years, to be precise, as Evan Kleiman celebrated her restaurant's 25th annive ... More >>

The Couscous Festival Extends to a Second Day

Farid Zadicouscous​ The Couscous Festival, coming to Pasadena this October, has now been extended to a second day. Which tells you how much interest has already been generated, five months before the event. The now two-day festival, which is organized by chef Farid Zadi, will incorporate cooki ... More >>

Hump Day: Cooking Camels With Anissa Helou

​ If you follow the blog of Anissa Helou - and you should; nobody this side of Paula Wolfert writes better about Middle Eastern food, offal, or Middle Eastern offal - you've read her missives on desert truffles, Gaziantep katmer, and the exotic-sounding salad of purslane, cherry tomatoes, meq ... More >>

10 Leg of Lamb Recipes I Briefly Considered Making Yesterday

Flickr/One from RM​ 1. Julia Child's gigot a la moutarde. Bea Arthur's favorite, sure. But powdered ginger and pounded dried rosemary? Even on Easter, this one requires a leap of faith. 2. Chorizo-stuffed leg of lamb from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques. The Mexican-Moroccan-Prove ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Walter Manzke's Cassoulet

Cassoulet is a great winter bistro dish, a homey baked casserole from the south of France that is absolutely nothing like the bland casseroles of most American childhoods. (Unless you happen to have French relatives or have won the food lottery and grown up nextdoor to Paula Wolfert.) Walter Manzke ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Cassoulet Nights at Bistro LQ: The Southwest of France, on Beverly

If you're the sort of person whose idea of a fun time is curling up with a mug of Armagnac and a sauce-spattered vintage edition of Paula Wolfert's 1983 classic The Cooking of Southwest France, then you might want to make reservations at Bistro LQ next Tuesday or Wednesday night. Both nights chef La ... More >>

Just Published: Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking A Recipe For Pumpkin Soup

PaulaWolfert.comClay Pot Cooking​Next week, Paula Wolfert's new cookbook, Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking, her 10th, officially hits the bookshelves. Wolfert--who lives, cooks, writes and tweets (@Soumak) in Sonoma, California--has received numerous awards and last year, the James Beard Foundat ... More >>

The eGullet Society Food Site: Forums (The World's Best Cookbooks), Discussions & Cookbook Recipe Testing

eGulleteGullet Society ​If you're surfing the web in the next few days, you might want to check in with the food website eGullet, which is doing a forum on the world's best cookbooks. Why? Because lists are inherently fun reading, and also because eGullet numbers among its members many of the ... More >>

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