Tag: Food Network

• Angela Medearis: The Ultimate Kitchen Diva

  

  “People are eating African American food every day, but they don’t know it,” Angela Shelf Medearis says to me when we chat on the phone. In part, she’s talking about James Hemings who, in the complicated way of slavery, trained in the culinary arts in Paris and became a noted chef de cuisine and yet…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  December 31, 2023

  #BookTok, 57th Street Books, Cookbooks, Food, Food History, Recipes, Soul food

  “Jerk Chicken Throwdown”, “The African-American Kitchen”, “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook”, “Throwdown with Bobby Flay”, African-American cookery, Angela Medearis, Bobby Flay, Cookbooks, Creole Chicken Stew, Food, Food Network, Jamaican Jerk Chicken, James Hemings, Kitchen Diva, Recipes, Sally Hemings, Seafood and Sweet Corn Chowder, Soul food, Thomas Jefferson

• Valerie’s Home Cooking: More than 100 Delicious Recipes to Share with Friends and Family

  I had the chance to chat with Valerie Bertinelli when she was in Chicago a few weeks ago to sign copies of her new cookbook, Valerie’s Home Cooking: More than 100 Delicious Recipes to Share with Friends and Family (Oxmoor House 2017; $30). It’s always interesting to meet someone in real time that you’ve, in…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  November 23, 2017

  Authors, Cookbooks, Oxmoor House

  Cookbooks, Food Network, One Day at a Time, One Dish at a Time, Oxmoor House, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie’s Home Cooking