Cooking, Food, Wine & Spirits

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An Ideal Wine is highly recommended for anyone wanting to know more about the California wine scene, both today and how it came to be that way.”

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If as a child you loved fairy tales and dreamt of being Cinderella, or if you yearned to be the handsome prince with a turreted castle, you’re going to adore Jane Webster’s gloriously illustrated

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French cuisine, or at least the cooking of it, intimidates a lot of people.

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There are wine books written by former English and history majors, about the poetry and mystery of wine. There are wine books written by former Ph.D.

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Although they’re kissing cousins of a sorts, modern French macarons don’t much resemble American macaroons. The extra “O” has nothing to do with it.

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Hey y’all, think you might could mosey down to the Delta with Martha Hall Foose for some good eatin’ and readin’?

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Of the Old World wine countries of Western Europe, few have changed more radically in recent years than Spain.

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Like his London restaurant, The Dock Kitchen, Stevie Parle’s first cookbook, My Kitchen: Real Food from Near and Far, is unconventional.

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In the interests of full disclosure, let me say that I enjoy a good hamburger, and I love to cook— and eat—spareribs.

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There are some books that one needs to buy the new edition of every year. The Gambero Rosso Italian Wines series is one of those sets.

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Elizabeth David is to the United Kingdom what Julia Child is to the United States.

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Following Phileas Fogg’s route, with detours thrown in for more tasty bites, food and travel writer Nan Lyons offers a tour of her favorite stops in Around the World in Eighty Meals.

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Do you:
a) Think food and high-tech belong in the same sentence;
b) Own at least one smoker;
c) Travel with your whipped cream canister and multiple cartridges;

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When traveling through Pennsylvania Wine Country, one encounters a number of unexceptional wines.

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Like the EatingWell magazine covers, The Simple Art of EatingWell proclaims its allegiances up front, with a cover shot of twine-bound asparagus spears.

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The Food Substitutions Bible does not, at first glance, look like a book to snuggle under the covers with and read for a while.

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Maya Angelou’s lovely books usually reside on our bedside tables, yet this is one you’ll keep close at hand in the kitchen.

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The cover gives a sense that Swallow This is going to be different: A totally bald guy in a tuxedo is chugging straight from a bottle of Château Lafite.

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At almost 4 ½ pounds, the heft of Sarabeth’s Bakery suggests serious satisfaction for the sweet tooth.

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If “one-pot dishes” makes you think just of soups and stews, One-Pot Dishes for Every Season aims to widen your horizons.

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For an introduction to Italian wine, Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy, by Joseph Bastianich and David Lynch, is a good choice.

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Critics have been lamenting the decline of French cooking for years.

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Here’s a book that is sure to show up on nearly every foodie’s holiday wish list this season.

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How would you define a cake? Do churros, sweet tamales, empanadas, baklava, or saffron buns come to mind?

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When Meryl Streep portrayed Julia Child in the film Julie and Julia last year, Americans rediscovered French cooking.

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