Tag: Food
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Celebrate with Babs: The TikTok Grandma’s New Cookbook
Barbara Costello didn’t do social media when she first helped her daughter by posting a cooking video on TikTok. “I thought TikTok was all about dancing,” says Costello, the mother of four and grandmother of eight, who is known as Grandma Babs. Her first post was in April 2020 during the pandemic. Nine…
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The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors
Chef/owner Deborah VanTrece takes the flavors and foods of her heritage and her travels to create the dishes served at her award winning restaurant and now shares them in her cookbook, The Twisted Soul Cookbook.
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Short on time? Sarah Copeland has a recipe for you
Want a dinner that tastes like Saturday night when you’ve had all day to putter around in the kitchen on a Wednesday? Don’t despair. Sarah Copeland, author Feast, has a new cookbook out that’s just right for you. In Every Day Is Saturday: Recipes + Strategies for Easy Cooking, Every Day of the…
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Tipsy Scoop: New Book Takes Ice Cream to the Next Level
It’s been beautiful these last few days and I’m already thinking of warm weather and ice cream. But Melissa Tavss of Tipsy Scoop has taken it one step farther. Instead of just ice cream, she’s adding artisanal spirits and creating boozy sweet treats. Her ice creams such as Dark Chocolate Whiskey Salted Caramel Ice Cream,…
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Spilling the Beans: Abra Berens Dishes on Legumes, Beans, and More in Her Latest Cookbook
A much maligned vegetable belonging, along with peas and lentils, to the vegetable class called legumes, beans are about as low on the food chain as you can go in terms of respect. Kids snicker at rhymes about beans and the gas they produce and sayings like “not worth a hill of beans” signifies…
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Tiffani Thiessen Wants Us to Pull Up a Chair and Enjoy Home Cooking
Only six or so when she started helping out in the kitchen, Tiffani Thiessen grew up in a family where dinners were a gathering time to enjoy great cooking and conversations. She upped her game from traditional American fare when she and other stars from “Saved by the Bell” toured in Europe. “It…
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Mark Bittman: Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
Mark Bittman never does anything in a small way. His cookbooks typically run some 600 pages and have titles like “The Best Recipes in the World,” and his ten-book “How to Cook” series such as “How to Cook Everything Fast,” “How to Bake Everything” and “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian.” They’re so pack full of…
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Author Sonali Dev’s new novel is an Indian twist on Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’
Sonali Dev’s newest book, “Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors,” is an Indian take on Jane Austen’s classic, “Pride and Prejudice.”
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F*ck Your Diet and Other Things My Diet Tells Me
“Our food choices and our image of ourselves are part of our culture.,” says Chloe Hilliard.
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Save Me the Plums: Ruth Reichl’s Memoir
A decade ago, out of all the food magazines published, the most famous was Gourmet, which offered a sophisticated look at culinary trends and cookery. And Ruth Reichl, who formerly had been the food critic for the New York Times, a job that entailed wearing disguises because her photo was plastered on a large…
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