Cookbook Of The Day

This Christmas present was from Ann because she likes soup. Usually, when she comes for Christmas, I make up 4 or 5 batches of soup and fr...

An oldie goldie on this snowy day.  Not only is this book old, but it is a reprint of an even older version.  Why Nancy Shaw chose to titl...

The guys behind Trout Point Lodge are an interesting lot. Daniel Abel, Charles Leary, and Vaughn Perret came together to become food entre...

Everyone knows Marcus Samuelsson's story by now. Born in Ethiopia, adopted and raised in Sweden, ventured to America to train, but sta...

Sometime people write cookbooks because they love the food and sometimes because they get paid. Today at Lucindaville, we wrote about Ivana ...

My friend, Ann, who doesn't cook, has several cookbooks with the full intention of cooking. Recently she chastised me for stealing her ...

The Somerset Club began informally in the mid- 1820's. It was known as the Temple and the Beacon and finally the Somerset Club. It...

In reading through my pile of Alabama cookbooks, I couldn ’t help but think of that old adage, “Everything old is new again.” That could b...

Sometimes when I pull a cookbook, I find that I end up looking several cookbooks by the author. I drag them out and then they end up still ...

There are a few thing in this world I covet and one of them is an Aga stove. The first Aga ’s were designed in Sweden, in 1922 by Dr. Gusta...

Charlie Palmer is the chef at Manhattan’s fashionable Aureole restaurant and Charlie Palmer Steak and several others. He has won numerous ...

Mark Miller began his cooking career with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse . He was one of the first chefs to notice and embrace the Mexican i...

When Vivian Kramer was a little girl living in Pennsylvania , she longed to be a “career girl” in New York City and live in Greenwich Villag...

The Hampton Day School in Bridgehampton, New York decided to produce a book as a fund-raiser. Not a terribly unusual thing to do. Bridgeha...

Banqueting for One is a quirky little cookbooks I picked up for its totally unusual vibe. First, I adored the title. As a girl who often ...

Agnes Jekyll was the sister-in-law of famous garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. It has been said that if Gertrude Jekyll was an artist-gardene...

I'm not a chef and I'm not a journalist, I'm just a greedy romantic who was transported by an idea and went to discover more. Na...

"The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who wake up thinking about what they are going to eat for supper, and those who d...

I admit it. Babe was one of favorite movies and Babe: Pig in the City , isn't far behind. While I love the movies they were not groun...

Art Smith’s big claim to fame is being Oprah’s chef. He must be pretty good because Oprah’s never been a skinny girl. Smith is known for “...