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

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 weren't disappointed. As with Madison's other cookbooks, Vegetable Literacy is an incredibly fresh persp ... More >>

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

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 and button down collar experience (a compliment), not merely a fleeting hipster vintage obsession. An ... More >>

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

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 Phaidon's series of international home cooking bibles dedicated to regional cuisines clocks in at over 500 ... More >>

The 200 Best Canned Fish & Seafood Recipes? Just Add Good Olive Oil -- Really

When a cookbook titled 200 Best Canned Fish & Seafood Recipes lands on your desk, there's really only one reaction: That's a lot of canned tuna. But if you look closely at the recipes from author Susan Sampson, former food editor of the Toronto Star, many are really quite clever. (Did we really ju ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: New Classic Family Dinners Campanile's Clams Casino Recipe

Cooking is often about remembering -- actively, looking forward and without regret. You might be inspired by a family member, an incredible vacation, a certain farmer's produce or a neighborhood restaurant dish that you loved. A dish, perhaps, in New Classic Family Dinners by Mark Peel. This isn't ... More >>

The End of Cookbooks? Consider The Epicurious Cookbook A Do-Ahead Thanksgiving Recipe For Sweet Potato Salad

In the online recipe empire, Epicurious is the culinary equivalent of Alexander the Great, an online conqueror of our weeknight stockpots in unprecedented proportions. A press release for the just-released The Epicurious Cookbook even dubs the entity a "digital food brand," not merely a website, wi ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Naomi Duguid's Burma, Rivers of Flavor Is Here A Recipe For Fried Banana-Sesame Seed Fritters!

"Finally here!" are words we hear all too often with every 30-minute meal-type cookbook these days, but with the release of Naomi Duguid's latest cookbook, Burma: Rivers of Flavor, it couldn't be more accurate. If you don't know Duguid, she is the sort of author who works on her cookbooks -- cultu ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Japanese Farm Food Is Even Better Than Sushi Rice A Recipe For Sesame-Miso Dressing

What happens when a California girl goes to Japan on a post-college, year-long sushi sabbatical? If you're Nancy Singleton Hachisu, author of the gorgeous new cookbook Japanese Farm Food, you meet an organic egg farmer, fall in love, and move to an incredible property in northern Saitama Prefecture. ... More >>

Maison Giraud in the Pacific Palisades Is an Homage to Classic French Cuisine — for Better, and Sometimes for Worse

Cookbook Of The Week: Asian Tofu By Andrea Nguyen Is A Keeper Her Cashew Cardamom Fudge Recipe

Our cookbook this week is the just-released Asian Tofu: Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook It at Home. Because if anyone can convince us to make tofu at home, it is Andrea Nguyen, the sort of tightly focused, thoughtful food writer who inspires you to explore a new subject (Vietnamese cuisin ... More >>

Josef Centeno's Bäco Mercat Now Open for Lunch

D. SolomonDiners at Baco Mercat's bar​Locals in downtown's Historic Core this week were quick to sniff out the area's newest lunchtime option, Bäco Mercat. The eatery -- still in its "soft-opening" -- greeted its first customers Tuesday. "We decided at midnight on Monday that we would ope ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Farmshop's Cabbage, Cucumber & Fennel Salad

A. ScattergoodFarmshop's cabbage, cucumber & fennel salad​ When we sat down with Farmshop's Jeffrey Cerciello recently, the chef talked about his time with Thomas Keller and in the kitchen of El Bulli. No, Cerciello does not secretly have a nitrogen canister or Anti-Griddle at his Brentwood Co ... More >>

A Recipe For Freekeh Salad With Grilled Zucchini: A Freaking Good Salad

Jeanne Kelleyfreekeh and grilled zucchini salad​ Bulgur and farro are great, but have you tasted that other wheat grain, freekeh? Freekeh (also frike or frikeh) is a fire-roasted green wheat that's grown in Turkey, Syria and Lebanon. With a distinct green color and a smoky, nutty flavor, freek ... More >>

No-Cook Recipe: Chilled Momotaro Tomato Salad California Olive Oil

Susan ParkMomotaro Tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms​ We're not wild about most tomato varieties. We find them either too bland and hard, or too acidic for our tastes. This has been an enduring issue since childhood. But last weekend we bought half a dozen Momotaro tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms at ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen Granny Foster's Fried Chicken Recipe

​There's something about summer that automatically revs up our food craving for fried okra, succotash, crispy slaws, picnic-worthy fried chicken and yeah, even those mayo-drenched Southern potato salads and pimiento cheese sandwiches. Or maybe it was flipping through Sara Foster's Southern Kit ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Tupelo Honey Cafe Their Two-Cheese Mashed Cauliflower Recipe

​If you've ever been to Asheville, North Carolina, a stunning city known for its quietly elegant beauty but also for its cultural diversity (fueled in the early days by Black Mountain College, a Depression-era progressive arts education institute), then you know what writer Elizabeth Sims and ... More >>

Top 10 Thanksgiving Recipes From 2010 Cookbooks

Flickr User Betty Crocker Images​Ah, Thanksgiving. That beloved day when commercial canned cranberry sauce somehow winds up on the same table as grandma's homemade brandied cranberries, just for nostalgia's sake. After we've taken care of all the traditional family member must-haves (sweet pot ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Culinary Tea, Or What To Do With All Those Ceylon Gift Tins

Photo Credit: Steve Legato​Coffee is one of those gifts that tends to fall into the select giving category -- only those friends whom you're certain love the dark stuff will be blessed with a bag of premium roast. Tea, not so much, as those little bags of perky mint and robust Orange Pekoe see ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Martha Rose Shulman's Barley and Mushroom Salad

Martha Rose Shulman's barley and mushroom salad​In our interview with Martha Rose Shulman, cookbook author, New York Times columnist, cooking school teacher and Julia Child pen pal, Shulman points out that eating vegetarian isn't the political statement now that it was a few decades ago. This ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Samir Mohajer's Cabbage Patch Slaw

A. ScattergoodCabbage Patch slaw at Cabbage Patch​ Samir Mohajer likes cabbage. The chef, who is getting ready to open his third Cabbage Patch this September, not only named his restaurants after the vegetable (and the dance, not the doll; read our recent interview with the chef on this and ot ... More >>

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