Watching Others Cook
Collins, Kathleen. (2009). Watching What We Eat: the evolution of television cooking shows. New York: Continuum. ISBN: 0-8264-2930-0 I’ve learned so much about food and cooking from watching cooking shows on television. As a teenager I would watch and long to be able to make the kinds of recipes being shown; dreamed of having a [...]
Putting Your Life On a Green Diet
Uliano, Sophie. (2009). The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green. New York: Dutton. ISBN: 978-0-525-95115-5. The title implies a diet book, but it is much more than the typical diet book. It has the usual suspects: eating plans, nicely exercises, allowed and not allowed foods. But the book expands the idea of [...]
Do you eat food?
Pollan, Michael. (2008). In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. New York: Penguin. ISBN: 978-1-59420-145-5 How much actual food do you eat? That is the somewhat disconcerting premise that underlies this book. Michael Pollan suggests that, because of the great many processed food products with many additives and the policies of seeking to make [...]
Brian’s Red Beans and Rice
Recipe: Red Beans and Rice Ingredients 1 pound (2 cups) dried red kidney beans or small red beans, rinsed and picked through 1 ham bone, excess fat trimmed but spare meat left untrimmed (or 2 smoked ham hocks) 4 tablespoons butter 1 medium onion, choppped 1/2 cup scallions, including most of green part, chopped 3 [...]
Brian’s Chicken Salad
5 boneless, skinless chicken breasts Olive oil Salt and Pepper ½ cup mayonnaise ¼ cup sour cream (or omit and make it ¾ cup mayo) 2 stalks celery, diced small ½ red or green bell pepper, diced small 1 small carrot, diced small 1 cup seedless grapes, cut in half ¼ cup chopped pecans (or [...]
Unpretentious Cookbook that is Healthy and Elegant
Valenti, Tom (with Friedman, Andrew). (2009). You Don’t Have to Be Diabetic to Love This Cookbook: 250 Amazing Dishes for People With Diabetes and Their Families. New York: Workman Publishing. ISBN: 9780761155508 New York chef Tom Valenti gives us food that is appealing, healthful, unpretentious and easy to prepare. The book opens with 16 pages [...]
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