'Cookbooks'

New Wine Vintage Celebrates Famed Restaurant’s 10-Year Anniversary
Sonoma, Calif.–Toast the 10-year anniversary of one of Sonoma County’s favorite restaurants with a glass of the Girl & the Fig’s first release of its own wine.
Proprietor Sondra Bernstein and award-winning winemaker Jeff Cohn from JC Cellars have partnered to create Trés Bonnes Annèes, a 2005 California Syrah. [more...]

I guess there’s nothing more patriotic than Twinkies except perhaps Wonder Bread.
Wonder Bread has its own cookbook so it just seems like the American way for Twinkies to have their own cookbook.
And since it’s approaching July 4th, one of most popular red, white, and blue celebrations — I’ve been to share the Patriotic Twinkie Cake recipe. [more...]

I have a small bookshelf in my kitchen where I keep my cookbooks.  I’m not a big collector of cookbooks — most were passed-down from my mother and mother-in-law with basic recipes that come in handy from time-to-time.  But there are exceptions.
I was looking up a recipe to share with you all the other day and happened [more...]

One of my friends let me borrow her cookbook once and specifically requested that I write my comments right alongside the recipe after I had tried it.
What a wonderful idea!  Not only did it give her another person’s opinion of the recipe but it gave her a very personalized way to remember me.  I have since started [more...]

The Oscars of the food world — James Beard Awards – have been announced for 2007. Most of the big awards went to New York, Chicago, and D.C.
I’m glad to see a few women chefs who won for their regions — Traci Des Jardins who won for best chef in California and Celina Tio for best [more...]