Aug 19, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Featured, Reviews
Very few home cooks qualify to use The Smoking Bacon & Hog Cookbook but those who do, will find this book by Bill Gillespie excellent. First you must own at least one good smoker, preferably two: a non-insulated bullet-style and an insulated cabinet smoker....
Aug 11, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Featured, Reviews
Journalist Denver Nicks is a gifted, superb writer with some fine humor in his book Hot Sauce Nation. It’s filled with stories, most real but some imagined, and they are all very readable and entertaining. In fact, even if you wouldn’t touch hot sauce with a ten-foot...
Aug 3, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Featured, Reviews
Pasta is comfort food, and spaghetti with meatballs is a perennial favorite for a reason, but pasta can also be elegant and gourmet, even while retaining its implicit simplicity. This book, with gorgeous pictures for every recipe, shows you how easy it is to craft...
Jul 28, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
Blissful Basil is a very nice vegan cookbook with a huge selection of good, mostly original recipes from breakfast through sandwiches to desserts and beverages. Ashley Melillo briefly shares her life story in the introduction and the health problems (physical and...
Jul 23, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
This unusual cookbook, The Recipe Hacker Confidential, emphasizes healthy cooking and eating, but it seems author Diana Keuilian’s primary goal is your weight loss, as this is what she keeps repeating often. The cookbook is a departure from conventional cooking, as...