Cookbooks

Ellen Kanner's Feeding the Hungry Ghost Teaches Readers on Seasonal Eats, Community & Food for the Soul

While Miami's vegan scene might be a little bit lacking, we have to give props to the dedicated herbivores working to educate the masses on the benefits of local produce, meatless Mondays and cruelty-free cuisine. One such teacher is Ellen Kanner, blogger, columnist and now, cookbook author. Kanner ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Five Things We Learned About Mac & Cheese from Laura Werlin

Wine and cheese are a match made in heaven. But wine and mac and cheese? A match made in the heaven where all the gluttonous sinners go. 'Cuz let's be real, that's where we want to end up. Yesterday's Mac & Cheese seminar with cookbook author Laura Werlin was a glimpse at what life would be like in ... More >>

Martha Stewart Goes Meatless

You know meatless is mainstream when it's being embraced by the kitchen queen herself, Martha Stewart. The ex-con and corporate master known as M. Diddy just released a new cookbook compiling the best and brightest of her meat-free concoctions. Meatless offers more than 200 recipes from the editors ... More >>

Norman Van Aken Cooks at Whole Foods Coral Gables Tonight

Norman Van Aken wears many "toques". He's been coined the father of New World cuisine and was one of the "Mango Gang", a group of chefs including Douglas Rodriguez, Allen Susser, and Mark Militello who turned Miami's culinary vista from diners and early bird specials into an interesting and cultural ... More >>

Miami Book Fair International 2012: Best Food Authors

It's your month, hungry literati. Tom Wolfe kicked of the Miami Book Fair last night and many great authors are in town. Some of them will speak about food during the event, which stretches from November 11 to 18 at Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus in downtown Miami. 2012 marks the 29th year the ... More >>

Hazelnut Pumpkin Donuts to Bacon Pumpkin Risotto: Six Ways to Cook With Pumpkin This Fall

The canned versus fresh pumpkin debate goes as follows: advocates for canned renditions argue that quality is consistent, reliable and readily available, while fresh aficionados side with the advantages of vibrant, bright flavor. South Florida is home to the Seminole pumpkin, a species native to Fl ... More >>

Kris Wessel: Florida Cookery at the James Royal Palm Hotel Is Personal

What does a chef do before opening a new restaurant in a luxury South Beach hotel?If you guessed taking his daughters on an extended road trip, you might have gotten the same email we did from Kris Wessel. If you speak with Wessel for more than 30 seconds, you'll learn that everything he does -- fro ... More >>

Julia Child Turns 100: Larger Than Life and Full of Joy

Read also: "Juila Child Birthday Events in Miami: Pascal's, Copperbox, and the Federal"Julia Child would have been 100 today. Child, who's name is synonymous with French cuisine and uber-long cookbooks, wasn't even into food until she and her husband, Paul Child, moved to France when Child was in he ... More >>

Juila Child Birthday Events in Miami: Pascal's, Copperbox, and the Federal

Julia Child is gone, but certainly not forgotten. Festivities are taking place all over the United States to celebrate her 100th birthday this week, and Miami is no exception.Her birthday officially takes place August 15, but according to Dorothee Rubin, incoming president of the Miami chapter of Le ... More >>

The Perfect Roast Chicken: Tips From Andrew Carmellini, Jeff McInnis and Michael Schwartz

Emily CodikA roast chicken is a lot like a chocolate chip cookie. Both are obviously prepared in an oven, but aside from that, both are one of the most popular subjects tackled by food writers, alongside other classics like the perfect pie crust or chicken noodle soup. Just like every pastry cookboo ... More >>

Kris Wessel On His New Joint, Florida Cookery -- And On Sunshine State Cooking In General

When I spoke with Kris Wessel by phone yesterday, he was in the Atlanta airport eating a Crystal Burger while waiting for his delayed flight to board. I was curious about his new upcoming restaurant, Florida Cookery, at the revamped James Royal Palm Hotel (originally built in 1939, the hotel is ... More >>

Scarpetta's Michael Pirolo and Nina Compton, Incoming & Outgoing Chefs, Cook Up New Menu Items (Part Two)

Two of the plates I tried while chatting with with Scarpetta's new chef de cuisine Nina Compton (who just took over the helms this week), and outgoing chef de cuisine Michael Pirolo (who is moving on to Macchialina Taverna Rustica) were new pasta compositions that chef Compton has created for the me ... More >>

Hedy Goldsmith Talks James Beard, Cookbooks, and Tattoos

​On Monday, the 2012 James Beard finalists were announced, leaving Michael's Genuine Food & Drink pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith the last hope of Miami taking home a coveted Beard award this year. Her boss, Michael's chef/owner Michael Schwartz, received the Beard award for Best Chef South in 2010 ... More >>

IACP Nominations Are in For Best Food Blog (And Other Things)

​​The International Association of Culinary Professionals has announced the nominees for its 2012 writing awards. These honors are handed out for all manner of food writing -- newspapers, magazines, internet, blogs, television shows, cookbooks. It even gives nods to the most "Intriguing Use of N ... More >>

SoBeWFF: The Festival Beyond Famous Faces

​You might not recognize them yet, but their names should already be on your radar. These chefs are in the kitchen every day, building the culinary foundation for future success. They bring a newfound creativity to comfort foods that we traditionally consider less than great cuisine. Meatballs, sp ... More >>

From the Big House to Your House: Lifers in Women's Prison Compile Cookbook of Improvised Recipes

​Some women at a Texas prison have compiled their culinary wisdom into a cookbook for those on the outside. The volume, titled From the Big House to Your House, is a collection of 200 recipes written by six women of the Mountain View Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in Gatesville, ... More >>

Carmellini, Schwartz, Yes. Behr, Bittman, No. Five Cookbook Authors Not at the Miami Book Fair

I have come to praise the Miami Book Fair International, not to bury it. I mean seriously: Is there any other event of this size that runs so seamlessly and trouble-free year after year? Plus, if not for Mitchell Kaplan, a lot of people in Miami might still not know what a book is.All I'm saying is ... More >>

Jessica B. Harris at Miami Book Fair Saturday: A Culinary Journey from Africa to Miami

Author Jessica B. Harris​Though Dr. Jessica Harris is well known as a tenured professor and the author of more than 10 cookbooks, including A Kwanzaa Keepsake and The Africa Cookbook, for her latest creation, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America (Bloomsbury, $26), the culinar ... More >>

Nadia G.'s New Book: Recipe for Bitchin' Lemon Meringue Pie

Cookin' for Trouble makes us wanna play with our food.​She cooks, sings, and rocks out with her comedic brethren in her rock 'n' roll comedy cooking show Bitchin' Kitchen, now in it's second season. We had a chance to speak briefly with Nadia G. about her show, her new book and how she likes to st ... More >>

The Art of Eating is a Great New Cookbook

​"This is what the food movement used to be all about -- honesty and integrity -- not hype." That's Alice Waters talking about Edward Behr's The Art of Eating, a quarterly food publication since 1986 and now a new cookbook subtitled "Essential Recipes From The First 25 Years."Authenticity and simp ... More >>

Twitterview Two: Chef Michael Bloise of Sushi Samba

Bloise' bright cuisine now has a space to match.As explained in yesterday's introductory Michael Bloise Twitterview part one, the following "twitterview" is an unedited back and forth between the Sushi Samba chef and me in queries and answers of 140 characters or less.It's sort of like a regular int ... More >>

The Cuban Kitchen's Raquel Rabade Roque at Books & Books Tonight

Cuban food lovers, put down your forks and stop in at Books & Books in Coral Gables tonight at 8 p.m. to talk rice and black beans and more with Raquel Rabade Roque, author of The Cuban Kitchen, owner of Downtown Book Center in Miami, and co-founder of the Miami Book Fair.Her new paperback is lo ... More >>

Hedy Goldsmith's Sweet and Salty Sides

Hedy Goldsmith has a yen for something salty.​The hardest part of interviewing Hedy Goldsmith, the executive pastry chef at Michael's Genuine Food and Drink is getting her to break away from the kitchen for a few minutes. She's a perpetual motion machine. Then again she has to be, because Goldsmit ... More >>

Scarpetta's Scott Conant Cooks a Mean Polenta for Miami Spice

Photo by Christina Staalstrom​Scott Conant has all the makings of a celebrity chef -- charm, good looks, award-winning restaurants, multiple cookbooks, and popular network shows. But this begs the question of whether Scarpetta's owner can work his magic in the kitchen and be held to the same ... More >>

Five Accessible Cookbooks to Elevate Your Cooking Game

How's your cooking game? Sure, your eating game is up to snuff, but food tastes even better when you know how it's made. The key to mastering the art of cooking at home is to become well-rounded, and that means tackling your weaknesses. In the words of Mr. Miyagi, "first learn stand, then learn fly. ... More >>

Classic Jell-O Shots: From Harry Potter to a Tom Collins

Running PressCookbook author Michelle Palm is reinventing our notion of the Jell-O shot with a new cookbook that explores the joy of consuming classic cocktails that wiggle. After friends and family were wowed by Palm's gelatin prowess at a backyard barbecue, she started up a blog, the Jelly Shot Te ... More >>

Will Cook for Sex and Other Cookbooks to Buy for Dad on Father's Day

Dad will thank you for this.​Father's Day is Sunday and with it comes the usual array of stunningly bad gifts. We only assume that dad receives such terrible item as ties, cheap cologne and Izod polos because he never complains about them. Men like to eat and sometimes that means fendi ... More >>

The Scotto Family Brings Food & Fun To SBWFF Today

Lee KleinElaina, Marion, Anthony Jr., and John​​If you watch the Today Show on NBC, you likely know the Scotto family pretty well. If you watch Wake Up With Al (Roker) on The Weather Channel, you likely know the Scottos. Or maybe you've eaten at their New York restaurant, Fresco by Scotto on Eas ... More >>

Michael Schwartz's Genuine Potluck at Books and Books

Trina Sargalski​View photos from Michael Schwartz's book signing at Books & Books here.Michael Schwartz made his first Miami appearance to promote his new cookbook, Michael's Genuine Food, on Saturday. Schwartz conversed with Sun-Sentinel food writer John Tanasychuk before a packed house at Bo ... More >>

Chef Michael Schwartz Launches Cookbook With A Talk and A Potluck

​As we wrote yesterday, chef Michael Schwartz's cookbook -- Michael's Genuine Food -- is finally out. And Schwartz will make his first Miami appearance at Books & Books Coral Gables on Saturday, February 19 at 7 p.m. This isn't your average book signing, though. After a Q&A with the ch ... More >>

Fart Without Fear Cookbook For "Low Flat" Super Bowl Sunday Snacks

​It's time to start thinking about Super Bowl Sunday. Specifically: What foods to prepare for the event? More specifically, and perhaps more than you really even want to think about: Is there a way to serve refried bean nachos without an odiferous aftermath that makes one yearn for the comparative ... More >>

Pâtés & Other Marvelous Meat Loaves

​"Pâtés, terrines, and galantines sound exotic and difficult to make, but basically they are just marvelous meat loaves." So begins the introduction to this 1972 cookbook by Dorothy Ivens (also the author of Glorious Stew; we are still waiting for her Magnificent Meatballs opus). The 229-pager c ... More >>

Franco-Judaic Style Cooking

The Brooklyn Cookbook

​​This is one of the real gems of my cookbook collection, and I'm not just saying that because I'm from Brooklyn. Alright, maybe I am just saying that because I'm from Brooklyn, but how can you not be impressed with a selection of recipes that includes Mrs. Stahl's Knishes; Dee Dee Daily's Pigeo ... More >>

California Wine Lover's Cookbook

​Sometimes cookbooks can do more than tell us how to prepare food. For example, a glance at the 1983 publication of California Wine Lover's Cookbook, by Malcolm Hébert and the Wine Institute and Wine Appreciation Guild, shows us just how much things have changed in the food world over the past 27 ... More >>

A Moveable Feast

The Cracker Kitchen: It's Not Just Road Kill

Courtesy of Scribner​This is a cookbook that I really enjoy, especially during this holiday season, when butter and pork -- which are staples of the cracker pantry- -- seem most enticing.  This is how Janis Owens defines the original, pioneer crackers:  "We mostly settled along the south ... More >>

Miami Book Fair Clueless On Cookbooks

​The food industry is hot hot hot. Chefs are hot hot hot. Restaurants are hot hot hot. Food networks and food festivals and food anythings are hot hot hot. Cookbooks are hot hot hot. Seems as though every chef in the world has written one this year - except for those who are writing one next year. ... More >>

Lee Schrager: South Beach food genius speaks

Nigella Lawson Caramel Croissant Pudding

This photo of caramel croissant pudding looks a lot better in the book.Yesterday we highlighted the just-released Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Cookbook by Lee Schrager and Julie Mautner. We'll remind you that Lee will be at the Miami Book Fair International this Saturday at 4:30 ... More >>

Joan Nathan on Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous

Photo by Michael LionstarAuthor Joan Nathan has your haroset hookup.​South Florida certainly has its share of Jews--it has been estimated the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach is home to about 10 percent of American Jews--so we wanted to share some culinary inspiration, especi ... More >>

The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine from the Celebrated Restaurant

​I picked up this book shortly after it came out in 1987. The front sleeve boasts that the collection of recipes within "truly represents a revolution in cooking." Big words, but 23 years later they ring true: Cooking with fresh, quality produce has indeed permeated American cooking - and Greens i ... More >>

Nino Pernetti

Caffé Abbracci

Tin Chefs

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

Side Dish

Kudos and kvetches

The Frill Is Gone

Atlantic

Side Dish

Take her to B.E.D.

Dish

Cooked Up in Miami

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Forever Yeung's