Cookbook Of The Day

TWO THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW: 1. I hate, hate, hate this new fashion of preparing dessert that looks for all the world as though it has b...

All week Celia Sacks has been taunting me with lovely copies of cookbooks by Ambrose Heath.  Some I do have and, alas, some I don't.  ...

It has been so dark and drear around here that we have tried to brighten up things by baking... OK by reading about baking.  Baby steps. ...

I ran across The French Cookie Book looking for cornmeal. Several people have made the recipe in this book for cornmeal cookies. I admit I...

Adriana Trigiani is a best-selling novelist. She immortalized her home in the Virginia hills, Big Stone Gap. Her books are filled with fam...

John Barricelli is a baker, and quite a good one. He always wanted a French style bakery in a little neighborhood and he finally opened Th...

In the late 1800’s Gesine Lemcke ran cooking colleges in New York City and in Brooklyn. She was the author of several cookbooks, includin...

In the early 60’s The Art Of Fine Baking by Paula Peck was the bible of baking. Even today, the book holds up to the onslaught of baking...

Domestic Cookery is a very old American cookbook. First published in 1845, my copy dates about ten years later. It followed an early tra...

It is hard to talk about "American Food" without mentioning Alice Waters and Chez Panisse . While it is hardly unusual to cook ...

Typical! Everybody and his mother wants to have a cookbook, even Whistler's mother. Among the items of James McNeill Whistler, bequeath...