Tag Archives: cookbook

A Summer Toast to the Fall Reading Season

September 12, 2011 – 12:16 pm

My Facebook friends know that I have been chronicling a backyard vegetable garden project that a friend and I collaborated on. Of course, all summer long we’ve been bragging to friends that we would host a harvest garden party to celebrate all the wonderful produce we were sure to grow. What we didn’t expect was [...]

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Abuzz About ‘A Platter of Figs’

October 24, 2008 – 6:46 pm

According to earlyword.com, a website aimed at keeping librarians on top of what is happening in book world, David Tanis’ “A Platter of Figs” might just be THE cookbook of the season. The author was a former chef at Alice Water’s Berkeley, CA restaurant Chez Pannise. Waters describes his cooking style as “radical simplicity.” If [...]

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A Cookbook That Vegans And Meat Lovers Will Adore

June 19, 2007 – 8:14 pm

I got a call last night to do a last minute author gig. I was asked to meet former chef of New York City’s renowned vegetarian restaurant “Angelica Kitchen” at the airport and take him and his wife to an interview. His latest cookbook, “The Flexitarian Table“, was the reason I decided to say yes [...]

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