Tag: cookbook

• My 2026 Reading List: An Essay About Books

  

  Thanksgiving 2025 is nearly upon us and I can’t wait to start my cooking and baking tomorrow! But, I am equally busy trying to complete my reading goal for 2025: as of today, I’ve read 64, halfway through my 65th, and have 10 more to read to meet my annual goal for this year of…

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  November 25, 2025

  books, Essay

  Book World, book-review, books, cookbook, fiction, Goodreads, graphic novel, Kindle, Libby, mystery, NetGalley, nonfiction, reading, T/b/r, Thanksgiving, Washington Post

• Book Review: Food for Thought by Alton Brown

  I’ve been watching Alton Brown cooking shows since way back when Good Eats first came on the air. I loved the combination of science and food, and how Alton made the how and why as important as the taste of the final dish. My younger daughter and I watched many an episode together, loving his…

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  October 9, 2025

  books

  Alton Brown, book-review, books, cookbook, cooking, essays, food, Food for Thought, Gallery Books, Good Eats, Iron Chef America, reading, social media, Southern, writing

• Book Review: Let’s Make Dumplings by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan

  What a charming cookbook! I took my time and savored each and every recipe in Let’s Make Dumplings (Ten Speed Press, 2021) by Hugh Amano and Sarah Becan. The subtitle of this book is “A Comic Book Cookbook,” but there is nothing comical about the step by step instructions and authentic recipes in this book.…

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  March 28, 2025

  books

  book-review, comic book cookbook, cookbook, food, Hugh Amano, illustrations, Let’s Make Dumplings, nonfiction, recipes, Sarah Becan, Ten Speed Press

• Book Review: The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook by Coco Morante

  At what point when reading a cookbook do you make the decision to just go ahead and purchase a copy for yourself? Wait, you don’t read cookbooks? I do. I check out bags of them from the library and read them cover to cover like my favorite mysteries or biographies. Sometimes I jot down a…

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  July 20, 2022

  books

  Coco Morante, cookbook, Instant Pot, New Orleans, Red Beans and Rice

• Book Review: Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan

  You had me at rye-chocolate shortbread! I love to read and I love to cook, so it is only natural that I read cookbooks like some people read novels: devouring them and savoring every last headnote, ingredient list, recipe, footnote, and photograph. Baking with Dorie by Dorie Greenspan is no exception. I can’t wait to…

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  March 12, 2021

  books

  baking, breads, cookbook, cookies, dough, pastries