Who better to celebrate in book form the musical-chair-like ingredients used in authentic tapas cuisine than the owners of a wildly successful chain of upscale tapas restaurants in the northeastern United States? Tapas is a freestyle... Read More

A short list of the most revered Midwestern restaurant chefs over the past twenty-five years includes the likes of Charlie Trotter, Rick Bayless, Jean Joho, Rick Tramonto, Jimmy Schmidt, Michael Symon, and Taka-shi Yagihashi, former chef... Read More

Spain is such a large, diverse, historic, and passionate country, no one should question why it continues to captivate the culinary world’s imagination. Sandwiched between two bountiful seas, rippled with mountains, plains, and rivers... Read More

Not yet an Asian Tiger in the mold of Thai or Vietnamese cooking, Indonesia is rich with indigenous, is-land-food sensibilities complemented by Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, British, and Spanish influences. Over the past 500 years,... Read More

A culinary tour of the west coast wouldn’t be complete without visiting Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Therein we discover A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes: A Year of Menus For a Table of Friends (Artisan, 978-1-57965-346-0), the newly... Read More

Living with food allergies not only limits your eating choices, it can also threaten your life. According to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, food allergy is believed to be the leading cause of anaphylaxis outside hospitals,... Read More

One of only a few books on the subject Sofie Michelsen’s All of Scandinavian Cooking is a self-published collection of Scandinavian recipes. The author who studies business and economics at Sweden’s Lund University begins with a... Read More

Most conservation efforts appeal to ethics or emotion. It’s not often the argument is made to save an animal or a plant because it’s tasty, but that is exactly the consumer/gut driven conservation message of the Renewing America’s... Read More