Ruth Reichl’s emotional cooking journal
The former food editor, restaurant critic, best-selling memoirist and the last editor of Gourmet magazine shares a recipe for giant chocolate cake. She calls it the cake that cures everything. ......
View ArticleRuth Reichl on identity, Twitter and her new book, “My Kitchen Year”
Ruth Reichl in 2014. Photo credit: Associated Press When Gourmet Magazine shuttered suddenly in 2009, editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl found herself without a job for the first time in decades. Naturally,...
View ArticleHow cutting waste in the kitchen can boost your family's food budget
One way to make food go further is canning, which Colorado State University teacher Ruth Inglis-Widrick, center left, teaches students in her class on the art and science of preserving the harvest....
View ArticleParty ticklers to try on this Navratri
Do you want to make your platter the headturner, this festive season? Here's how you can wow your guests at the Navratri get-togethers The Navratri spread can be elaborate and scrumptious. What one...
View ArticleA force on the Miami art scene, Ruth Sackner dies at 79
Ruth Sackner didn’t only collect art. She lived it. Every inch of the Miami condo she shared with her husband, Marvin, was covered with pieces from their art collection, which was all about words. “I...
View ArticleBittman builds many recipes from single start point
BERKELEY, Calif. – Mark Bittman has an exponential theory of cooking: If you can cook one dish, you can cook thousands. His latest cookbook, “Kitchen Matrix,” aims to help home cooks unlock that...
View ArticleCookbook author to sign books, share samples of her dishes
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Yvona Fast will sign copies of her cookbook and offer samples of some of her dishes from noon...
View ArticlePBS chef Nick Stellino gives away cookbook online before Syracuse event on...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – TV chef Nick Stellino is generous with his time and resources when it comes to supporting PBS stations. He will be the guest speaker for a fundraiser for WCNY, the local PBS affiliate....
View Article6 new cookbooks from Triangle authors
Our patch of the South is home to many cookbook authors. They have published a crop of cookbooks this fall; six of them, in fact. Three authors have books in the University of North Carolina Press’...
View ArticleDark Corners, by Ruth Rendell - book review: A frightening farewell
In one of her last interviews, Ruth Rendell told me that she would like to die writing. “Of course, one doesn’t get the chance – people don’t have deathbeds now, do they?” she said. “They either get...
View ArticleDark Corners, by Ruth Rendel - book review: A frightening farewell
In one of her last interviews, Ruth Rendell told me that she would like to die writing. “Of course, one doesn’t get the chance – people don’t have deathbeds now, do they?” she said. “They either get...
View ArticleApplesauce cake even better with sweet, sticky glaze
This is the time of year many apple-lovers go into sugar overdrive with apple-y desserts. For those of us with...
View ArticleFrom ‘The Homemade Kitchen’ - Two cooking classes, two chats with Alana Chernila
“Homemade food is the opposite of perfection. It holds the stamp of its maker.” That’s probably the most often quoted remark from Alana Chernila’s new book, “The Homemade Kitchen – Recipes for Cooking...
View ArticleTHE OZ FAMILY KITCHEN (Crown Publishing Group)
(Source: Crown Publishing Group) THE OZ FAMILY KITCHEN More Than 100 Simple and Delicious Real-Food Recipes from Our Home to Yours In THE OZ FAMILY KITCHEN, Lisa Oz gives readers an exclusive inside...
View ArticleHelene Darroze: The two-Michelin-starred chef on Vietnam, inspiring Pixar,...
I want to tell a story with each plate of food When I cook, I want to bring back a memory from my education, from my travels and from my life. There is one dish I cook [at the Connaught] called Return...
View ArticleA kitchen katha
The Kitchen enters the work of Dhiruben Patel’s work like a tree of lights. The dark patches borrow from the shadows of light. The tree is rooted in memory -- of mothers, aunts and grandmothers. It is...
View ArticleRuth Reichl Bay Area appearances today and tomorrow!
Meet Ruth Reichl today and tomorrow right here in the Bay Area. She’ll be sharing her new book, My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. An acclaimed chef, nationally known author, and the...
View ArticleFormer Gourmet editor Ruth Riechl's cookbook offers new takes on recipes
Back in October 2009, Ruth Reichl was headed to Kansas City, Mo., for a stop on a cookbook tour when she got word publisher Conde Nast was shuttering Gourmet, the crown jewel of food magazines. "I was...
View ArticleLucky Peach is learning to love the easy side of Asian food
Disney princesses reimagined as hot dogs and drunken rants by name-brand chefs are de rigueur for quarterly food magazine Lucky Peach. But a new cookbook from the journal's editors leaves most of that...
View ArticleMoving Mountains -- Reducing Waste With "The Kitchen Ecosystem"
We waste a mountain of food in this country, insititutionally and individually. The Obama administration has pledged to cut food waste in half. Good for the government, but what about you? Given the...
View ArticleThe 10 best fictional chefs
Ahead of the release of Bradley Cooper’s new film, Burnt, here are our top screen heroes of the kitchen...
View ArticleRuth Reichl finds solace in her kitchen
In October 2009, Ruth Reichl received the unfortunate news that her employer Conde Nast was shutting down Gourmet magazine. The esteemed foodie had been atop the masthead for the past 10 years. Losing...
View ArticleWhat it’s like to be a recipe tester: Culinary secrets, celebrity chefs'...
At parties, when I tell people what I do, they invariably get The Look. I call it Cake Face: slightly glazed eyes, a smile lingering on the lips, air of mild reverie. “You get PAID to do that? That's...
View ArticleCookbooks take on publishing world by storm
Visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair are greeted by images of aromatic spices, mouth-watering desserts and beaming chefs as cookbooks, once a niche segment, take the publishing world by storm. “Twenty...
View ArticleRuth Reichl returns with new cookbook reflecting on aftermath of Gourmet...
Ruth Reichl’s recipe for apple crisp is startlingly simple, with only scant instructions and a short list of ingredients. Not that Apple Crisp is an overly complex recipe to begin with, but Reichl has...
View ArticleBeyond 'Aunt Jemima': A Taste Of African-American Culinary Heritage
5:06 PM ET NPR Staff Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. The Jemima Code Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks by Toni Tipton-Martin...
View ArticleChina bids for Unesco tag for Confucius family cuisine
BEIJING: China is preparing a bid for the family cuisine of ancient philosopher Confucius to be listed as a Unesco cultural heritage, the media reported on Monday A committee for the standardisation of...
View ArticleA British chef in China and his kitchen classroom (Beijing Municipal Government)
(Source: Beijing Municipal Government) At a small restaurant in a Beijing hutong, a young British man is teaching the Chinese how to cook. Jamie Bilbow, 27, opened Rice Kitchen three years ago and...
View ArticleKelis ditches milkshakes in her new cookbook
(CNN)Kelis has written a cookbook and no, it doesn't have any milkshake recipes. The R&B singer who shot to fame extolling the delights of the frothy drink is offering more nutritious fare in her...
View Article3 Fall Moisturizers You Can Concoct in Your Kitchen
By Victoria Lewis for Well+GOOD If you want something done right, sometimes you have to do it yourself. For meticulous beauty label readers who want to know exactly what's in the products that touch...
View ArticleNavaratri special: Undhiyu from chef’s kitchen
Mumbai: The eighth day of Navaratri is dedicated to “Mahagauri”. She is a manifestation of Goddess Durga. Legends believe that when Parvati was wondering in the forest of Himalayas searching for Lord...
View ArticleChina eyes UNESCO listing for Confucius cuisine
China is preparing a bid for the family cuisine of ancient philosopher Confucius to be listed as a UNESCO intangible cultural heritage, experts said on Sunday during a food conference in East China's...
View ArticleNew York Times Editor Dean Baquet Defends Controversial Osama Bin Laden...
NEW YORK -- New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on Wednesday defended a controversial weekend magazine cover story that examined the construction of the media narrative surrounding the 2011...
View ArticleA Cookbook With Heart
Cookbook author, Alexandra Stratou Close your eyes for one moment and think back to your childhood. Chances are that one of the first memories that springs to your mind is a certain taste from your...
View ArticleAre Cookbooks Dead? (Fresh Direct (UK) Limited)
(Source: Fresh Direct (UK) Limited) Date: 21-10-2015 published by Nick Baines Share this: Pru Leith, cookbook author and head honcho of London's famous Leith's Cookery School, recently came out saying...
View ArticleKitchen therapy from ex-Gourmet editor Reichl in new cookbook
"My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life," her first cookbook in 40 years, sprang from grief over the demise of the venerable food magazine. ......
View ArticleFood Network personality and bestselling author Giada De Laurentiis is back...
(Source: Crown Publishing Group) Happy Cooking by Giada De Laurentiis FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Alex Shack, Slate PR Anna Mintz, Pam Krauss Books 310-461-0117 | alex@slate-pr.com 212-572-6186 |...
View ArticleAMERICA’S BEST FOOD CITIES: NEW YORK Best food cities: New York - 'The...
What’s the Big Apple got that no other great American food city has? Just about everything — and more of everything than anywhere else, its tastemakers will tell you. “New York has a diversity and...
View ArticleThe Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty by Vendela Vida – a compelling tale about the...
A young American woman loses herself in Casablanca in an intoxicatingly strange quest for anonymity...
View ArticleDIY English muffins prove worthwhile
Jasper White, one of my favorite Boston-area chefs and an old friend, likes to tell a story about the time Julia Child insisted he make common crackers (the hard round crackers served with chowder in...
View ArticleRoyal Korean Cuisine Showcased by Korean Food Foundation at this Year's New...
NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Korean Food Foundation (KFF) will again make a stimulating presentation at this year's New York Wine and Food Festival, taking place October 16-18 at Pier 94...
View ArticleR&B star Kelis dishes on her cooking
This book is not a celebrity cash-in. See, singer-songwriter Kelis, who's made a steady career on the vanguard of R&B and soul music for nearly 20 years, just wrote a new cookbook called "My Life...
View ArticleReview: Julianna Baggott's 'Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders' is just that
Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders is a writerly book. "I've never cared for novelists," writes the titular Wolf, herself a novelist rewriting her life in the form of her seventh book. But this...
View ArticleExperiential and personal
On stage, “Oh, My Sweet Land”, written and directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi, is a one-woman show. As it opens, we see a single unnamed protagonist, cooking. She is preparing the kubah, a classic Syrian...
View ArticlePick your favourites!
Play time Raell Padamsee Favourite Play: Kitchen Katha A play that I really, really enjoyed and I think should be seen by people across the board is Kitchen Katha. Directed by Neelam Man Singh , and...
View Article‘I made a giant mess’ – newspaper editor Tony Gallagher on working in the...
After he was sacked last year, the former Daily Telegraph boss went to work at his favourite restaurant. How did he handle the heat – and the gloating politicians?...
View ArticleRecipes adapt to taste of free-wheeling, modern cooks
In a world where everything from a ride to the airport to the way a child learns math has been disrupted, the written recipe – that fundamental bedrock of how we cook and share food – is undergoing its...
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