Ok, now the iPhone Kindle application is earning its keep–even though it was already free. As mentioned before, The Cook’s Illustrated How-To-Cook Library is freely available from Amazon’s kindle and it’s big. I’m already a big fan of Cook’s Illustrated and Americ...

As an exhibitionist ex-academic, I was delighted to participate on a Public Humanities panel on Food and Sustainability at Portland State University last week. The panelists were asked to keep their presentations short (6-8 minutes) so that there would be ample time to for the audience to participat...

Most of my kitchen experiments are about the recipes -- things that I really want to try -- but some are definitely all about the cookbooks.  See, I collect cookbooks not simply because I love to cook, but also because I enjoy them as books, and as cultural artifacts.  Some I buy just fo...

We've been working hard to feed our families and ourselves with one awesome dinner a day. We cook a delicious meal each night and share it with our kids. It satisfies the parents. It satisfies the kids. And we've got......

Filed under: Hors D'oeuvres, Recipes, Food Oddities, America, Comfort Food, Retro cookery Recently, as I was dipping through a copy of my family cookbook in search of one of my mother's favorite recipes, I took a good, long look at the book itself. In addition to being a nice resource, it is also so...

When mixed with rice, chana Punjabi, an Indian chickpea stew, is a soulful meal whose charms are hard to resist....

Here's a few recipes from MRS. ROWE'S LITTLE BOOK OF SOUTHERN PIE (Ten Speed Press, July, 2009) in celebration of National Banana Cream Pie Day. Enjoy! (At this point, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that you can pre-order the book at Amazon of Ten Speed.) Susan’s Banana Cream Pi...

I’ll cry if I think about how many months are left to go before any real vegetables appear on the scene.  And although I’m very aware that avocados do not grow in Minnesota and must be trucked in from faraway lands, they still have a nice green taste.  That’s what I was craving thi...

Small businesses can be hit hard in a big recall, as they rarely have a staff to handle one....

Why Pie? Why Now? When my publisher asked if I could write the Mrs. Rowe’s Little Book of Southern Pies Cookbook, I jumped at the chance. It's a natural follow-up to the Mrs. Rowe Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from Shenandoah Valley because Mrs. Rowe was famous for her pie. We cou...