Michael Ruhlman’s “Ratio”
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed …
Tag Archives: Book Reviews
Yolele! Recipes from the Heart of Senegal
To paraphrase Flannery O’Connor,* a good African cookbook is hard to find. And so when such a book appears, the …
Pie in the Sky: A Review of Janet Clarkson’s “Pie: A Global History”
You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You’ll …
Food History Isn’t Just Old Stuff
Convenience in the kitchen, a state of affairs that most of our great-grandmothers would have killed for, snuck into food …
The Washington Post on Best Cookbooks (Gifts) of 2008
An interesting and REAL list (for the most part) of cookbooks for serious and not-so-serious home cooks. Some of the …
Feast of the Seven Fishes (La Festa dei Sette Pesci)
If you like comic books, graphic novels, and cartoons, you’ll love Feast of the Seven Fishes: The Collected Comic Strip …
MILK: That Old White Magic
[Note: Ironically, I just came across this December 15, 2008 NPR interview with Anne Mendelson: "A Culinary History of Milk …
Mrs. Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book
Nearly everyone on the planet, or at least those with access to education — unfortunately many areas of the world …
Let Me Entertain You … A New Food Encyclopedia Bellies Up to the Shelf
Entertaining from Ancient Rome to the Super Bowl: An Encyclopedia might not grab you with a catchy, seductive title, but …
Out of Africa: Review of “Food Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Say “African food” and most people visualize a cartoon with two missionaries boiling in a black iron pot in the middle of a jungle clearing. That’s the “Dark Continent” picture, deeply rooted in the West’s persistent attitude of colonialism toward Africa. Or, instead, they “see” stick-thin children sprawled out on their mothers’ laps, listless, flies swarming everywhere.
