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99 Problems and Whiskey Ain't One: 99 Drams of Whiskey by Kate Hopkins [review]
Kate Hopkins is a writer best known for her blog, Accidental Hedonist, which chronicles her interest in and consumption of all things food and drink. Out of this website came Hopkins's book, 99 Drams...
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Jam Packed: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon [book review]
The title of Karen Solomon's wonderful Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects (Ten Speed Press; buy on Amazon) is a little bit of a misnomer. While the projects outlined here are...
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Burning Up: Seven Fires by Francis Mallmann [cookbook review]
Francis Mallmann is South America's most famous chef, which really ought to afford him more of a measure of North American fame than he's had up until now. It's not that he hasn't tried: there was an...
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What's Wrong With France: Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger [book...
I like France. Granted, I haven’t been there since I hit puberty, but I have fond memories of munching on crunchy frittures, sipping on citron pressés, taking tastes of my parents’ kir royales....
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Moving Forward, Looking Backward: Fresh, Coop, and Deeply Rooted [book review]
A hundred years ago, we ate what was local and easily grown in our county. Today we have Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, 7/11, and McDonald’s, who serve us food from around the world all year long. But...
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Out of the Kitchen: Cooking Dirty by Jason Sheehan [book review]
The way I see it, the problem with kitchen memoirs is that they're all about kitchens. Whether they tell it well or not, these books all have the same story: "Once upon a time there was a kitchen, and...
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Two for Moo Shu: Jennifer 8. Lee and Andrew Coe on American Chinese Food...
As a child I was mystified by Chinese food. First of all, it contained a lot of vegetables, some of them unidentifiable, most of them green. Second, much of it was spicy and/or covered in strange...
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Fabio Viviani's Cafe Firenze Cookbook by the Numbers
Top Chef Season 5 contestant, Fabio Viviani, and his partner Jacopo Falleni have self-published a cookbook of recipes from their Moorpark, California restaurant. The Cafe Firenze Cookbook: Food and...
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What's a Foodie, Anyway? The Foodie Handbook by Pim Techamuanvivit [book review]
Photograph: Eat Me Daily I'm not a regular reader of Chez Pim, the all-things-gourmandise blog that's been written by Pim Techamuanvivit for the past four many years. I've been marginally aware of...
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Cookbook Review: My New Orleans by John Besh: Beyond the Bayou
Photograph: Eat Me Daily New Orleans has been drawn so many times — using so many of the same stories, the same hooks, the same oddball characters and domestic-exotica veneer — that it's hard to have...
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Cookbook Review: The Blackberry Farm Cookbook by Sam Beall
Photographs: Eat Me Daily Farm-to-table is one of those irritating culinary trends that is hard to really stay irritated by. Fundamentally, it's just so darn right: we should be eating seasonally and...
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Book Review: Coco by Phaidon: The Global Culinary Yearbook, 2009
Photographs: Eat Me Daily Be warned: Phaidon Press's new book Coco: 10 World-Leading Masters Choose 100 Contemporary Chefs (Amazon) will suck you in. As its neatly descriptive subtitle so concisely...
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Cookbook Review: Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home: Deliberately Eating Together
Photographs: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily Thomas Keller's cookbooks are not known for being accessible. Gorgeous, inspirational, even heavy — but accessible? Doable? Replicable? Not exactly. The French...
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Book Review: This Is Why You're Fat: An Extraordinary Document of Human...
Photo: Raphael Brion / Eat Me Daily We finally got our grubby paws on what could be the most hotly-anticipated book release of 2009, This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks ($9.99,...
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Cookbook Review: Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan: The Hype, Justified
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily I held my breath when I heard there was going to be a Momofuku cookbook. Restaurant cookbooks are always a tricky proposition, a tenuous juggling act of...
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Cookbook Review: Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Beyond the Food Network
Photo: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily In case you didn't know that Michael Symon, author of Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen (Amazon) appears on Iron Chef...
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Cookbook Review: New American Table by Marcus Samuelsson: One Nation,...
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily Consider the notion of "American cuisine." Go past the checkered-tablecloth nostalgia answers, the burgers and fried chicken and fruit pies, and what's left...
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Cookbook Review: Simple Fresh Southern by Matt Lee and Ted Lee: Sibling Rivalry
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily The misleading thing about sophomore slump, as a concept, is that it focuses on the downturn. That's not to say that the theory doesn't hold water: with that...
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Cookbook Review: I Heart Macarons by Hisako Ogita: Sweet, Fluffy, and Imperfect
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily Hello! This book review comes with a contest! Make it all the way to the end for details on how to win your own copy of I Heart Macarons. I've never made...
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Book Review: Cleaving by Julie Powell: Rough Cuts
Photograph: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily Julie Powell's central metaphor in Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Amazon) is the idea of butchery as therapy: it is, essentially, the act...
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