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Filed under: Recipes, Books, Real Kitchens It's Meyer lemon season and I am delighting in their tangy flavor (the appearance of these lemons makes the onset of winter a little more palatable). My grandmother had a Meyer lemon tree in the backyard of her house in Woodland Hills, CA and the first whiff of their signature scent (a little more floral ...

Hands down, one of the most impressive cookbooks this season is A16 Food + Wine. The book is divided into sections on the wines of southern Italy, and a longer section on food served at the restaurant. In the food section it's particularly helpful to read the introduction to learn about chef Nate Appleman's approach to cooking Campanian style in ...

Filed under: Food Porn, Recipes, Books, Raves & Reviews, How To, Cookbook of the DayOkay, hardcore Stewies, this is it: the moment you've been waiting for. Martha Stewart is ready to teach you -- really teach you -- how to cook. Of course she's been doing so for a couple of decades and counting, but in this book the Martha School reaches its ...

Life has its ups and downs, and so does my weight it seems. I’m back on the heavy side again, even though I’ve been working out regularly when I haven’t been traveling. I’ve decided I’m in a diet and exercise...

Filed under: British Isles, Recipes, Books, Halloween Are you not sure what to dress up for this Halloween? I've got an idea: the 14th-century king Henry II! Soon, you'll be able to recreate your own medieval feast. Just this week, tech-blog Switched posted a story on a new online cookbook that reveals 200 recipes from the chefs of King Henry ...

Filed under: Breakfast, Recipes, Books, Bakeries Several years ago, I spent some time working at a medical school. It was the kind of job where there were lots of morning meetings and at least once a week I found myself trekking to other schools for some planning powwow. One of the few benefits to these meetings were that the host school often ...

After speaking with cookbook author Raghavan Iyer about curries, I decided to try one of his recipes. This would be my first time cooking anything Indian so I randomly chose Scalloped Potatoes with Coconut Milk and Chiles which can be found in the ''Contemporary Curries'' chapter of 660 Curries. (By random, I mean I thought this would be a ...

Dr. Manny Alvarez is a senior health correspondent for FOX News and a leading OB-GYN. His diet book, The Hot Latin Diet: The Fast Track Plan to a Bombshell Body reveals how women can stay slim and maintain sexy, natural...

A few weeks ago, I was watching To Be or Not To Be at a friend’s house where, after the film, I wandered into the kitchen to help myself to a glass of water. As I was drinking, I spied an oddly-titled book on the kitchen table– Muscle Chow. I picked it up and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ''Muscle Chow: Lessons in Gay Food Porn'', ...

Well, God Bless America, it’s Kate Smith! I’ve recently been given a book of her favorite recipes called, of all things, Kate Smith’s Favorite Recipes. If you know anything at all about me, or even care to, you know that I am fascinated with celebrities. Not the new ones so much–I prefer the dead ones. I ...