http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off Food and Wine Editors' Blog en-us Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:22 -0500 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:22:53 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/10/Food52s-Cookbook-Champion Last night at the Astor Center in NYC, Food52’s Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs along with Charlotte Druckman announced the winner of their cookbook contest, The Piglet. Nora Ephron (writer and director of Julie & Julia) made the final cal... Cookbooks Chefs Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:22:53 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/10/Food52s-Cookbook-Champion Emily McKenna http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Michael-Symon-at-the-Breslin Michael Symon was in town last week, and that’s exciting. The F&W Best New Chef 1998 and winner of the first Next Iron Chef back in 2007 was here with his new cookbook, Michael Symon’s Live to Cook. So there we were, hanging out at th... Cookbooks Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:36:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Michael-Symon-at-the-Breslin Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations What can someone like me, a girl living in Queens, NY, possibly learn from a bunch of Park Avenue socialites with names like Muffie Potter Aston? A lot, I learned, after I read Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations, a new book by New York Times columnist ... Entertaining Cookbooks Holidays Events Style Recipes News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:04:56 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations Alessandra Bulow http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/27/Julia-Child-Potluck Our fantastic senior copy editor, Ann Lien (who reads every recipe with her eagle eye), is also a terrific cook. Here, she reports on a recent dinner: Julie & Julia is coming out on DVD in December and I’ve already preordered my copy of the... Cooking Cookbooks Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:34:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/27/Julia-Child-Potluck Kristin Donnelly http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/21/Jamie-Olivers-Food-Revolution Jamie Oliver just keeps getting better. Eons ago I used to scratch my head at the popularity of the Naked Chef and his mumblings about great pasta with peas, but now I'm on the front lines of fandom. Unlike other celebrity chefs, who churn out ne... Cookbooks Chefs Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:38:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/21/Jamie-Olivers-Food-Revolution Emily Kaiser http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/13/An-Ode-to-Thomas-Keller November will be a big month for superstar chef Thomas Keller (an F&W Best New Chef 1988): He’ll release Ad Hoc at Home (Artisan) and has plans to open a Beverly Hills outpost of Bouchon. Reasons to honor him now: his birthday this week, p... Cookbooks Chefs Recipes Restaurants News Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:21:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/13/An-Ode-to-Thomas-Keller Ratha Tep http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/8/Simple-Japanese-Recipes Last weekend I tried a few recipes from the new cookbook Everyday Harumi. The author, Harumi Kurihara, is a homemaker-turned-cooking-star in Japan, where she has a TV show, magazine, tableware line and restaurants. The photographs in her book are bea... [More] Cooking Cookbooks Recipes Blogs Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:41:23 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/8/Simple-Japanese-Recipes Michelle Shih http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/7/Tournament-of-Cookbooks Food52, a website and online community launched about a month ago by Amanda Hesser (ex–New York Times food editor) and Merrill Stubbs, celebrates the "unsung heroes" of the food world: home cooks. There's a growing database of use... Cookbooks Blogs News Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:42:27 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/7/Tournament-of-Cookbooks Emily McKenna http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/5/Pasta-Sfoglia-Cookbook The NYC Marathon is one month away, and while I’ve been pretty diligent about getting in my long training runs, I’ve been more lackadaisical about my diet. I’ve learned the hard way that late-night Momofuku pork buns and foie gras ... Cooking Ingredients Cookbooks Chefs Recipes Restaurants News Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:08:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/5/Pasta-Sfoglia-Cookbook Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/23/Boxing-Lessons-with-Barbara-Lynch Last week, I was up in Boston to help host a party with rock-star chef Barbara Lynch and the founders of Fresh beauty, Lev Glazman and Alina Roytberg. The occasion: To celebrate an article in F& W’s September issue, in which Lynch helped he... Baking Cookbooks Chefs Travel Events Restaurants News Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:25:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/23/Boxing-Lessons-with-Barbara-Lynch Jen Murphy http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/4/Vermont-Butter--Cheese Vermont Butter & Cheese Co. rolls out a new name and logo today. After 25 years in business, apparently there is still some confusion over whether there’s butter in the cheese. There’s not. The newly named Vermont Butter & Cheese ... Cookbooks News Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:29:15 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/9/4/Vermont-Butter--Cheese Emily McKenna http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/8/31/Remembering-Sheila-Lukins I never had the opportunity to work with Sheila Lukins, who died yesterday at the age of 66. But I did love the carrot cake recipe from her inimitable Silver Palate cookbook (co-authored with Julee Rosso) and made it so often I had it memorized.&#160... Cookbooks Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:00:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/8/31/Remembering-Sheila-Lukins Kate Krader http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/8/13/More-Sticky-Chewy-Messy-Gooey Jill O'Connor's Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey is one of my favorite baking books. So I am totally thrilled that Chronicle Books is publishing a much-needed sequel: Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey Treats for Kids. Even though the book is aimed at ki... Baking Cookbooks Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:51:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/8/13/More-Sticky-Chewy-Messy-Gooey Kate Heddings http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/24/Down-Home-with-the-Neelys When testing cookbooks, experience has taught me to not always trust popular television personalities. So when Down Home with the Neelys by Patrick and Gina Neely landed on my desk, I braced myself for a day of mediocre recipes and possible disasters... Cookbooks Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:50:00 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/24/Down-Home-with-the-Neelys Melissa Rubel http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/17/Nora-Ephron-on-Julie--Julia Who better to adapt two heartfelt, moving memoirs on food and its enormous powers to delight, inspire and transform—Julie Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme—than Academy Award-nom... Cooking Cookbooks News Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:24 -0500 http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/7/17/Nora-Ephron-on-Julie--Julia Ratha Tep