
I know it can be disappointing for my daughter when packages of cookbooks arrive and they’re not for her. While we do cook from many of the cookbooks I receive to review, not many are Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Munchy Munchy Cookbook”

I know it can be disappointing for my daughter when packages of cookbooks arrive and they’re not for her. While we do cook from many of the cookbooks I receive to review, not many are Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Munchy Munchy Cookbook”

Let’s take the pressure off — the kitchen isn’t a place where we have to perform (7)
There is entirely too much truth in what Meike Peters says in the open lines of her latest cookbook 365: A Year of Everyday Cooking & Baking. Day in, day out it feels as though, as home cooks, we’re always “on” — 365 days a year. There’s that popular Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: 365 – A Year Of Everyday Cooking & Baking”

Sometimes cookbooks are sent to me and I have no clue what kinds of recipes I’m going to find. Such was the case with Jillian Harris and Tori Wesszer‘s Fraiche Food, Full Hearts cookbook, which was sent my way back in September. I kind of knew who Harris Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Fraiche Food, Full Hearts”

Cookbooks are the great equalizer — no need planning expensive trips to destinations with new or notable food experiences because if that place everyone loves has a cookbook then you can make (or bake) your own fun! While I visited Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Tartine – A Classic Revisited”

I haven’t always been interested in cooking or cookbooks. When I was a kid and young adult I was completely obsessed with movies. Didn’t give my folks much bother because Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: From the Oven to the Table”

When I first received a copy of Artur Cisar-Erlach‘s The Flavor of Wood in the mail I wasn’t really sure what to expect — I mean, I was familiar with the idea that some alcohols are aged in wooden Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Flavor of Wood”

I am an avid MasterChef Canada viewer — there I said it — but it’s true. Back in early 2014 when I was pregnant, I really got into reality cooking competition shows. I found it completely fascinating how Canadians from all different Continue reading “Book Club Friday Fun Edition: Kitchen Party”

When Amy Rosen started to describe the food enjoyed in the kitchens of North American Jewish families in her latest book Kosher Style as “tast[ing] like gold and ooz[ing] warmth” she had my interest — what could be better than Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Kosher Style”

Usually I am happy and pleasantly surprised with the cookbooks publishers send me but in the case of Aran Goyoaga‘s latest book, Cannelle et Vanille, I made it my mission to ensure I’d get a review copy. “Pester” and “persistent” are probably good words to describe the tactics I employed in the months before the Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: Cannelle et Vanille Cookbook”

While I love to travel, I think my introverted nature much prefers to hear all about other people’s travel stories or to get lost in a good cookbook full of faraway places and food to match. True story — when I was little my mom asked me if Continue reading “Book Club Tuesday: The Forest Feast Mediterranean”
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