It must have been serendipity that I had brought David Kamp’s The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation to read on our flight to Vegas. Kemp writes about the cultural history of the gourmet food movement and the celebrity chef phenomenon from James Beard to Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck to [...]
Posted on October 28, 2006 in Books,Restaurant Reviews
Crepes, Waffles, And Pancakes!: Over 100 Recipes for Hearty Meals, Light Snacks, And Delicious Desserts by Kathryn Hawkins begins with a brief history of pancakes around the world, and continues with an overview of the basics (add extra eggs and melted butter to pancake batter to make crepes, and a rising agent to make waffles), [...]
Posted on October 27, 2006 in Breakfast,Cookbooks,Gluten Free,Recipes
For those lovers of everything vintage, Jam Handy! is your type of cooking blog. Written by Kirkkitsch, a 30-something blogger out of Arlington, Texas, Jam Handy! is a gold mine of old recipes, magazine ads, and vintage cookbooks. Kirk faithfully scans the ads and cookbooks and documents the year. I really appreciate the effort and [...]
Posted on October 25, 2006 in Recipes,Thanksgiving,Weight Watchers and tagged as pie, pumpkin
Hooked on Heat is written by Meena, a creative writer and designer living in Toronto, Ontario. (She’s also writes at Girl en Route.) The blog is entertaining and well written, the photography wonderful, and the layout (especially of the recipes) clean and easy to read. As she writes, "With my Mom being Malaysian, my Dad [...]
Posted on October 19, 2006 in Recipes
Does your child’s school have a bake sale coming up? Well Reynolds Fun Shapes has come to your rescue. As you already know it can sometimes be challenging to make delicious treats that appeal to the customers’ eye as well as their taste buds. Round cookies and square brownies are out, and new shapely treats [...]
Posted on October 15, 2006 in Baking,Contests and Giveaways,Desserts,Recipes
I came across KidsKuisine when I did a Google search looking for Spider Cake ideas for my children’s books and cooking blog, A Readable Feast. KidsKuisine is from the folks at CopyKat Recips, another terrific foodsite. The recipes on KidsKuisine just for Halloween are hysterical – Pumpkin Gut Nachos, Graveyard Pudding, and Witches Tongues, for [...]
Posted on October 12, 2006 in Recipes
Food Blog of the Week is back with a recommendation to check out another UK-based food blog, Nami-Nami. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, it’s written by Pille, an Estonian foodie. Pille also has two other food related blogs, Nami-Nami Reads the Papers, where she scans the UK newspapers for stories about food and eating, and Nami-Nami [...]
Posted on October 5, 2006 in Recipes