Feb 23, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
Marissa Baggett’s cookbook on sushi would be excellent except for a poor index. Nevertheless Vegetarian Sushi Secrets, a trade paperback, is still a very good cookbook with a usable Contents section for searching. In her introduction, Baggett gives us all we need to...
Feb 18, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
I’ve been a fan of America’s Test Kitchen the show so I was dying to try out the recipes in the cookbook. The book is packed with many classic pie recipes from apple, pecan, key lime to not-so-familiar recipes like Portuguese egg tarts. I love a fresh fruit tart so I...
Feb 10, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Main Dish, Reviews
Here is an exceptional cookbook that should be on every home cook’s bookshelf. The Vegetable Butcher should have the highest rating, unfortunately, it’s not without faults. For one thing, page numbers referred to in recipes for other preparations are sometimes...
Feb 2, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
The hosts of the popular cooking show The Chew have compiled a cookbook of their favorite and most-requested recipes from the show in this new paperback. The scope of recipes is quite varied, and recipes are easy to follow and clearly written with varying degrees of...
Jan 28, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes, Reviews
Food waste in our society is endemic; Sherri Brooks Vinton hopes home cooks will remedy this in her trade paperback cookbook Eat it Up. If you have the time to reduce kitchen waste, this is an excellent book to use for most of the stuff you otherwise discard, like...
Jan 19, 2020 | Cookbook Reviews, Reviews
“Clean” eating is all the rage these days, but many people have no idea how to get started, while others just need more ideas for how to best utilize the fresh produce and whole grains that make up part of a healthy diet. Allyson Kramer has tons of new ideas in her...
