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Keep Your Brain Young (Robert Rose) was hanging around my desk for a while before I realized it was, among other things, a cookbook. “You are what you eat,” reverberated through my mind. Prior to that I’d thought it was just my…
The story of Marin County’s Cowgirl Creamery echoes that of the organic food movement in the United States. Starting when Sue Conley and Peggy Smith met in college and twining through various paths to the ultimate creation of Cowgirl Creamery and, in…
This is the cookbook segment of January Magazine’s Best Books of 2013 feature. You can see our picks for the Best Crime Fiction of 2013 here. Still to come are our choices of the Best Non-Fiction, Best Fiction, Best Books for Children…
“There is so much good food in the world,” Sarah Copeland begins. She says a lot more but, in so many ways, that is the guiding idea behind Feast: Generous Vegetarian Meals for Any Eater and Every Appetite (Chronicle Books). Copeland explains that…
Every successful cookbook has something that sets it apart. Sometimes it’s the unique world view or experience set of the author. (Think Anthony Bourdain.) Sometimes it’s the chef’s celebrity status. (Martha would work here as well as any other. After all, we…
There are as many books about mushrooms as there are, well… mushrooms. And like those mushrooms, some are just more collectible and digestible than others. My own collection of mushroom books — field guides and cookbooks — is pretty respectable. I love…
There was a time that a cookbook aimed entirely at men were comprised of stacks of recipes for huge portions of fatty foods — mostly meat — and how to put them together easily into different, now edible stacks. And, truly, that…
In a world grown newly concerned with the ethics of eating animals and animal products, more and more people are coming to veganism. At first, it can seem a daunting journey. It’s one thing not to eat the flesh of animals. But…
In our culture, we are obsessed with time. Because of this, it is inevitable that some of the basics begin to become neglected. Unfortunately, one of the most basic basics of living that often gets left behind is eating properly. I know…
When I was growing up, the biggest food-related treat I could imagine was going to a certain Mexican restaurant in the heart of Venice, California, that was, at the time, something of an institution in Los Angeles. It was old and elegant…