Jenn Garbee

We've read a lot of cookbook Introductions over the years, but Christine Moore's Intro to Little Flower: Recipes From the Café, her first cookbook, gave us pause. Most begin with the joyous side of the author's kitchen endeavors, with promises of the flavorful journey that you, too, will herein begin......

Type "Field Guide" into the Amazon book search list, and you'll get, as of this typing, 39,688 results. These are the moments when we suspect the A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts, to be released in a few weeks, will come in handy. A little rainbow sprinkle, Boston cream, or......

The upside of reality food television: all the teenagers we meet who want to hang in the kitchen in today's cool tattooed chef era. And yet most teenagers are still caught in those awkward cooking years. They don't need kid's cookbooks, or at least don't think they do. But they're......

What happens when a California girl goes to Japan on a post-college, yearlong 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. Her hefty......

Blame it on one too many bites of factory farmed pork ribs on Labor Day, but we can't stop saying, "Oh dear God" -- while being entirely mesmerized by -- The Ultimate Guide to Home Butchering by Monte Burch. Meat and religion tend to have that effect. But wait, there's......

Holiday traffic, bars reeking of stale beer, hoards of people intent on their last beach fling. Ah, Labor Day weekend fun. Actually, it's the perfect excuse to stay home and channel your inner Euell Gibbons and forage for backyard cattails. Or, if you're not swamp-adjacent, build a mini-winery in your......

Summer tomatoes are at their prime, the first fall apples have arrived. Where else but L.A. can you continue to cook your way through the best summer cookbooks by day while starting on those fall reading lists at night? These are the sort of nightcap-worthy books to pull out when......

If you want to know what's really going on in the craft distilling industry, 74-year-old Bill Owens, president of the Hayward-based American Distilling Institute, is your (always chatty) man. He also happens to be quite an accomplished photojournalist, a skill that he says doesn't always work in his favor in......

Interested in learning Modern Moonshine Techniques, taking a nationwide tour of 99 Pot Stills, brushing up on a Short History of the Art of Distillation? You really should take a look at The American Distilling Institute's publications. One caveat: Unlike home brewing and winemaking, federal law prohibits home distillation for......

Season three of PBS' Downton Abbey doesn't kick off until January. While we're waiting for our fill of Mrs. Patmore's kitchen quips (come to think of it, Maggie Smith's character really does look a bit like Gordon Ramsay), cookbook author Emily Ansara Baines has come to our mushy pea rescue......