Pros: Delicious food; lovely photos Cons: … Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not vegan, but I believe that good vegan and vegetarian cookbooks can provide wonderful vegetable-based recipes. It’s a great way to find excellent side dishes, or reduce…
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Review: “Food52 Vegan,” Gena Hamshaw
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: cookbook, Cooking, Food52, Gena Hamshaw, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
Review: “Kitchen Matrix,” Mark Bittman
Pros: Truly a source of great possibilities Cons: One real change needed… Rating: 4 out of 5 I was totally stoked to get a review copy of Mark Bittman’s Kitchen Matrix: More Than 700 Simple Recipes and Techniques to Mix…
Review: “A Bone to Pick,” Mark Bittman
Pros: Many excellent points; thought-provoking Cons: … Rating: 4 out of 5 Mark Bittman’s A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more is a collection…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: Cooking, environmentalism, essays, food, Health, Mark Bittman
Review: “No-Churn Ice Cream,” Leslie Bilderback
Pros: Some truly delicious ice cream! Cons: Problems in flavors and instructions Rating: 3 out of 5 No-Churn Ice Cream: Over 100 Simply Delicious No-Machine Frozen Treats is a promising title by Leslie Bilderback. Sure, I have an ice cream…
Review: “Fika” (cookbook), Brones & Kindvall
Pros: Sooo delicious! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Fika: The Art of The Swedish Coffee Break is an absolutely delicious cookbook! It explains that…
Review: “The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book,” Weinstein & Scarbrough
Pros: Helpful tips; some good recipes Cons: Some ‘meh’ recipes Rating: 3 out of 5 I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough’s The Great Big Pressure Cooker Book:…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: Bruce Weinstein, Cooking, food, Mark Scarbrough, pressure cookers, recipes
Review: “The Paleo Chef,” Pete Evans
Pros: Scrumptious food Cons: Not sold on everything Rating: 4.5 out of 5 I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. The Paleo Chef: Quick, Flavorful Paleo Meals for Eating Well by Pete Evans…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: cookbooks, Cooking, healthy cooking, Paleo, Pete Evans, recipes
Review: “Bread Revolution,” Peter Reinhart
Pros: Yum! Cons: There were a number of recipes I couldn’t try Rating: 4 out of 5 (provisional) I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Bread Revolution: World-Class Baking with Sprouted and…
On Reviewing Cookbooks
Any time I review a cookbook I make recipes from it first. You can have a gorgeous cookbook written by a famous chef that’s full of errors, and you can have some ugly little book written by someone you’ve never…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: bread, cookbook, Cooking, Peter Reinhart, recipes, whole grain, whole milled flour
Feasting Resource
Recently I used and reviewed the Taste of Home Christmas cookbook. We liked it so much we decided to make our Thanksgiving meal entirely from that cookbook, just for the Hell of it. For desserts, we had a pumpkin mousse…