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...

Good extra-virgin olive oil goes straight to your head like champagne. Sweet, pungent, peppery, grassy, and lemony all at once, it makes almost anything delicious. And then there’s the crap I buy at Trader Joe’s. Yeah, I knew the cheap stuff wasn’t as good as the oil available in s...

Dear Christopher Kimball: God knows I love you. I love that dweeby little bow tie you wear on America’s Test Kitchen . I love the way that all the recipes I use from your magazine always turn out, provided I double the amount of garlic. And I loved that when I saw you do a book reading in San ...