Cookbook Of The Day

When Anna Watson Carl was growing up, she ate dinner with her family on a big, yellow table. There was nothing particularly interesting ab...

May Southworth  wrote a series of cookbooks at the turn of the last century for a small publishing house in San Francisco called Paul Elde...

As one might expect, we just love Williams-Sonoma.  So it is fitting and proper that we feature Merchant of Sonoma on Chuck Williams 99t...

This little gem from 1915 is called Florida Salads .  There seems to be no real thesis presenting why these salads are particularly Florid...

Actually, it is The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook as no one wants to get sued by the "official" Mad Men. So after a seventeen month...

We love Margo Rieman. We know she wrote a food column for Cosmopolitan Magazine. We feature her cookbook, Twelve Company Dinners and sin...

In the late 1970' and 1980's, Helen Hecht wrote a series of lovely cookbooks, including Cold Cuisine. The book has a lot of salad...

Many cooks of the thirties, including Elizabeth David, were enamored of Countess Morphy's Recipes Of All Nations . There is very l...

I am a big fan of Georgeanne Brennan. Williams- Sonoma Salads is another one of her delightful compilations . After everyone has over in...

The story goes... Two Italian kids who grew up together in Queens, then reunited to open an Italian-American restaurant in Brooklyn. It is...

Salad: Open a bag of lettuce. Twist off the top of that Ranch dressing and add to lettuce. Salad right? You are so very wrong. If you do...

I love Jamie Oliver. I started watching him in his "Naked" days and still really love him. I think part of it is because he is ...

At age thirteen, Cesare Casella began working in his family’s restaurant, Il Vipore , tucked in the Tuscan hills. Casella stayed on in t...

One cannot talk about “mid-century” without Russel Wright. Russel and Mary Wright were the first people to advocate “living” as a larger c...

Alton Brown is a fun guy to watch. He’s like your goofy cousin who you like to see for an afternoon, but by evening you are kinda ready to ...

I must confess I don’t know any biographical information on Ethelind Fearon. I do know that I love her. I have grown to thinking of her as...

Maximilian De Loup seems to be a rather European name for someone committed to “American “ salad. But there he was in 1900 providing hundr...

A Slice of Organic Life by Sheherazade Goldsmith is a richly produced hymn to the living a green life. Technically, it is not a cookbook ...

Mary Ann Caws is a rock star of academe! She is the Tina Turner of translation! The Jane Birkin of Bloomsbury. The Janis Joplin of Surrea...

Good cooking is chiefly common sense and good taste. Lillian Hellman Lillian Hellman was the provocative playwri...