Rum babas dripping with gooey sweetness. Crisp canolis oozing creamy goodness. A cake that looks like it came from a professional baker, sparkling with snowflakes. Get your hands on a copy of Baking with the Cake Boss and all this and more can come from your kitchen. This book is fantastic. It’s like a patisserie…
Category Archives: Food and Drink
The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book, with Giveaway
My young teen baker and I have had SO much fun exploring and creating with The Ultimate Cake Mix Cookie Book: More Than 375 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin with a Box of Cake Mix by Camilla Saulsbury. This is a nice big book full of recipes in three sections: drop cookies, bar cookies, formed…
Season to Taste
Molly Birnbaum was an aspiring chef, doing kitchen duty at a Boston bistro while waiting to enter the Culinary Institute of America, when she was hit by a car while running through the streets of Boston. The impact of her skull against the car’s windshield severed the neurons that connected her nose to her brain,…
The Hour that Matters Most
During the first years of my parenting adventure, we always ate dinner at the table as a family. Unfortunately, I recently realized that we rarely sit down and eat a full meal together. My children are now in school and participate in extracurricular activities, and my husband travels almost weekly. We either rush through dinner…
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, with Giveaway
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School made me consider my own relationship to my kitchen. I have always made cakes from scratch rather than using mixes, but I was still used to many shortcuts in the kitchen, something I didn’t realize until I moved to northwest Africa (Mauritania and Morocco) 10 years ago. I missed salad…
Lunch Wars: Kirkus Reviews Blog
While many kids will be going back to school after Labor Day, my son just finished his second week. As he has done in past years, he eats school lunch. Our district has incorporated whole grains, banned strawberry milk completely and now offers salad along with PB&J as the third daily option. The menu has…
Four Kitchens: Kirkus Review Blog
Americans like food from everywhere, and we pride ourselves on trying most things. Our cities boast cuisine from Thailand, India and Ethiopia, and we have assimilated Mexican and Italian food to the point that we now consider them American. So I wasn’t surprised when I picked up a copy of Lauren Shockey’s memoir Four Kitchens:…
Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl
When I was younger I ate a tuna fish sandwich at my great-aunt’s house. I broke out into hives and we assumed it was the mayo. For a long time after that I stayed away from anything with mayo, but that turned out to be an isolated incident and I never reacted to mayo again….
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