The thing is, you don't need an addiction to real Italian cooking to lose yourself in these pages. You can read it as a travel book. As an adventure story. As a sensual experience that yields deep pleasure for the authors --- and the reader.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
If your friends and family know that you're a big-time reader, you're surely going to get books for the holidays. And if they don't know you well, y...
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer are "salt-and-pepper" cooks. They buy fresh food, they focus on presenting the essence of its flavors, and they use seasonings as little as possible.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
Canal House Cooking, Volume No. 3 arrived the other day, and we greeted it like a visit from an old friend who shows up just as you're starting to miss her.
Elissa Altman | Posted 05.25.2011
I first heard about Canal House through the grapevine, which is a pretty tightly plaited bit of business in the food world.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't need to say that the photographs will make you want to start cooking. Or that the writing is as warm and welcome as a just-made cheese puff. Or that No. 2 is the second reason these women are the hottest news in cookbooks.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 03.20.2012