Search Results for 'Food'

New cookbooks reveal the best of Italian comfort foods

The economy is shaky and the political climate is uncertain. We've been facing tough times for a while, and even the most optimistic of us could use some modicum of comfort, at least at the table. These may all be factors contributing [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Great Art, Great Food, Cookbook Signing

CaryCitizen is always interested in new collaborations and this one is unique: a cookbook created using the art and recipes from members of the Cary Gallery of Artists. The Cary Gallery of Artists will make it official with a fun book sig [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Soul Food: Cookbooks As Literature

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Alexandre Dumas père was a terrible and a wonderful man. He fought in wars, hu [...]

Posted On : Sep, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbooks, memoirs and food porn

In early 2008 I had my second trip to Vietnam – I went to play music at a New Zealand Food and Wine Festival in Ho Chi Minh City. It meant a couple of weeks' holiday as the cherry on top of a couple of hours' work, and gave [...]

Posted On : Aug, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

BEHIND THE BOOK - MISSION STREET FOOD

Alanna Hale discuss their theories behind the photography and recipe layout in the cookbook with Easter National. Trash talking Ying says, "I haven't been making cookbooks for very long, but I have a hunch that not a lot of other [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

'Modernist Cuisine': Magnificent Art From Food

This is food like you have never imagined it before. Breaking food down into pieces and then reconstructing it into magnificent art is the idea behind the "Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking" book set. Pictured he [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Locally grown Ontario food delicious highlight of spectacula...

In every region of Canada, enjoying the abundance of our locally grown food has become extremely popular. Whether it’s wild salmon from British Columbia, prize beef, grains and pulses from the western provinces, maple syrup from Que [...]

Posted On : Jun, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Whole Foods Market CEO and Founder “Enthusiastically” Endors...

Fresh off the endorsement of influential health food icon John Mackey (Whole Foods Market CEO and Founder), rising health author, J. Michael Zenn, recently appeared live on CBS News. Nearly 1 million viewers watched as he talked about his [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

'Food of Life' cookbook gets a makeover

Now there's a beautifully expanded new version of the unparalleled 1980s guide to Persian cuisine. And check out this tah-dig recipe. "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies"Najmieh Batmangl [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook featuring pacific food wins Best Cookbook in the Wo...

A cookbook with dishes of the Pacific including Fiji has won the Best Cookbook in the World for 2010 at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards held in Paris last week. The Book has also won the Best Foreign Book award and was written by New [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Persian food guru updates master cookbook

It is the kind of late-February afternoon that hints at spring. Najmieh Batmanglij is in her element - cooking in the large room graced with tones of honeyed oak, smooth stone relics and the sunlight from a wall of windows at the back of [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 2011 | Comments : 0

Foodies Bow Down Before Ex-Microsoft CTO's Cooking Bibl

Nathan Myhrvold earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in mathematical physics by age 23, studied with renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, earned a fortune as Microsoft's chief technology officer, dug up a handful of T. Rex [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Bite Size Gourmet: Testing Baby Food Cookbooks

I am that parent: the one who thinks her one-year-old is destined for greatness because she can turn the pages of a book (never mind that it’s upside down) and amazingly perceptive because she mimics a range of facial expressions, [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbooks: Some tomes your favorite foodies might savor

Some books that might appeal to the gourmets on your gift list: "The Sunset Cookbook," by Margo True (Oxmoor House; 812 pages; $34.95). A collection of 1,000 recipes highlighting the best of America's Western cuisine [...]