Savvy Eats

I read Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss last week, and it absolutely confirmed my decision to not pursue food engineering. For those of you who may not remember, I was a Chemical Engineering student in college until the end of my sophomore year, when I decided that I’d like to focus more on food [...]

I was recently sent Gesine Bullock-Prado’s newest book, Bake It Like You Mean It, for review. I own both of Bullock-Prado’s other books, Sugar Baby and Pie It Forward, and love them. Her books are always beautifully laid-out, albeit not as easy to navigate as other cookbooks. Her writing is fun and amusing, and the headnotes [...]

I was thrilled to receive Deborah Madison’s newest cookbook, Vegetable Literacy, from Ten Speed Press for review.  It is a gorgeous book, and one I’ve had my eye on since I first heard about it.  Gardening and cooking in one book? Yes, please! Madison divides the chapters by plant families. Her argument for this is that [...]

When I was first learning to cook, I focused my cookbook purchases on general tomes, the ones that would teach me a little of everything: Joy of Cooking, Cooking Know-How, The Original King Arthur Flour Cookbook. Slowly, I started branching out and adding books for specific cuisines: La Cucina, so I could start learning to [...]

I was thrilled to be chosen to review Alex George’s A Good American for BlogHer Book Club. I’ve been on a classics trend in my reading lately: Les Miserables (I’m now 1/3 of the way done!) and Little Women are my most recent reads.  I wanted to mix things up and read something a little more modern, but [...]

Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat, One Hunt at a Time by Georgia Pellegrini was the September Kitchen Reader selection and was chosen by me. The concept of this book is fascinating: is it “truly possible today to live off the best your hands can produce. Is it possible to eat only the meat that you kill? [...]

All the canning books I have come across begin the same way, as they should: with an explantion of the tools and techniques you need to safely can and preserve your own food.  They then typically break into chapters organized by type of preserve or by season. Many of them offer the same general recipes: [...]

I was recently chosen to review Don’t Trust Your Eyes, by Linwood Barclay, for BlogHer Book Club. After two 5-star reviews for the BlogHer Book Club, the winning streak sadly came to an end.  I was intrigued by the premise behind Trust Your Eyes, in which a map-obsessed schizophrenic inadvertently discovers evidence of a murder and enlists his brother’s [...]