Just In Time For Holiday Bakers: Red Walnuts!
Photo: Kemp Minifie If ever there was a perfect nut for the December holidays, it’s the red walnut. The skin covering the creamy white nutmeat is almost uncanny in its deep, beaujolais-red color. You...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Foodie Gift: The Bocuse D’Or Cookware Set
Photo: Courtesy of Bocuse D'Or Foundation If you’re looking for the ultimate gift for a very special someone who happens to be obsessed with food and cooking, consider the limited edition All-Clad...
View ArticleThe Must-Have Book on Latin American Food
Cover Image: Courtesy of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Maricel Presilla’s Gran Cocina Latina is not just the most important cookbook to be published this year, I’m convinced it will also prove to be...
View ArticleThe Holiday Cookie Baker’s Best Friend
Photo: Courtesy of Casabella With holiday cookie swaps in full gear, my vote for the greatest—and simplest—bakeware innovation goes to rolling pin spacer bands. They solve an ongoing baking...
View ArticleThe Mysterious Case of The Cremini Meringue Mushrooms
Photo: Lara Ferroni For the meringue mushrooms to decorate her Tiramisu Yule Log, Gina Marie Miraglia Eriquez definitely did not want to go the traditional route. “Do I have to do the boring white...
View ArticleHoliday Baking Made Easier
Photo: Courtesy of Norpro Know about pastry cloths and rolling pin covers? They’re what my mother and grandmother swore by for rolling out pastry and cookie dough, but Mon Dieu, I never saw them used...
View ArticleThe Gift For Italian Food Lovers: Coming Home To Sicily
Photo: Courtesy of Sterling Epicure If you’re looking for a gift for the Italian food lover in your life—and these days that description fits most Americans—grab a copy of Coming Home To Sicily. And...
View ArticleThe Secret To Beautiful Cut-Out Christmas Cookies
Photo: Lara Ferroni With a blizzard sweeping across much of the country today and tomorrow, and only four days before Christmas Eve, this weekend is shaping up to be prime cookie-making time. There are...
View ArticleA Merry Christmas Breakfast
Photo: Mikkel Vang Good morning and Merry Christmas! Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, a holiday morning is an ideal time to indulge in the pleasures of a homemade hearty breakfast. Christmas...
View ArticleHow Fresh Is Nine-Week-Old Bread?
Photo: Kemp Minifie These slices of bread look fresh, right? They certainly felt fresh to me when I snapped the photograph on Friday, December 21, 2012. The crusts curled—no breakage—as I pulled the...
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