Category Archives: cookbooks

A few weeks ago, I had the amazing and somewhat harrowing experience of seeing my cookbook come to life during a five day photo shoot. Instead of photographing the recipes in a studio, my partner Kathy and I decided to … Continue reading →

I’ve had to face facts that when under a cookbook deadline, it’s almost impossible (unless you’re some kind of mental octopus), to maintain a food blog with any amount of frequency. It’s times likes these when I wish I had … Continue reading →

My “morning chicken“: A whole chicken from Griggstown ( a wonderful poultry farm located in Princeton, NJ) cut into eight pieces and rubbed in the morning with a combination of yellow miso, thyme, smoked paprika, mustard, 2 sliced garlic cloves, … Continue reading →

I am both blessed and cursed by an intimidatingly large and growing cookbook collection. When the books arrive at my doorstep in padded envelopes (due to my “real” job as a books editor I am sent many of them to … Continue reading →

If there’s one occasion that seems to call for cupcakes, it has to be Valentine’s Day. Combine chocolate with cupcakes and you have me half way to the boudoir. But this year the fam and I will actually be in … Continue reading →