I picked this book up at Eastern Market for about $5, and I’ve fallen in love with it. The Artful Eater, an anthropological look into 18 foods that are vital to great cooking, is part history and part romance. Edward Behr lovingly describes eggs, vanilla, English mustard, cream and salt without rhyme or reason, but [...]
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June 19, 2008
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World — Is It Shallow That I Only Wanted to Read it After I Saw It in NYT?
Before I left for D.C., my grandfather gave me this book to read (because he knows I’m a total foodie) but I was like, nahhh, don’t care about bananas that much, don’t wanna read it. But today, after seeing an article in the NYT by Dan Koeppel, the Banana author, I was like, well, I [...]
May 2, 2008
Retro 1970s Filipino Recipes: Nora Daza’s Cookbook, "Galing, Galing" Brings "American" Food to the Filipino Masses
My mom gave me a copy of her favorite go-to Filipino cookbook, Nora Daza’s “Galing, Galing: Food as prepared in Philippine homes” before my senior year because she was tired of me calling her and my gramma all the time, asking how to prepare adobo or sinigang. What I love about this cookbook is that [...]
February 11, 2008
Someone Please Buy This for Me: 1080 Recipes Cookbook
I love art books, and cookbooks are increasingly turning into pretty coffee table books crammed with a thousand million gorgeous pictures of beautiful food. When I found out Phaidon (a publishing house famous for architecture and photography art books) came out with a Spanish cookbook, 1080 Recipes. Ferran Adria, Spanish celebrity chef superstar, writes a [...]
