The Everyday Fermentation Handbook: Fermentation for Beginners
The Everyday Fermentation Handbook is a beginner’s guide to fermentation.
Cookbook Reviews
Three Free Cooking Apps
It’s the cooking season and these three free cooking apps are here to help with ideas and instructions for appetizers, main dishes, and desserts – lots of desserts.
The 30 Minute Vegan: Soup’s On! Cookbook Review and Recipe
The 30 Minute Vegan: Soup’s On! by Mark Reinfeld arrived in my mailbox a week ago, just as the weather started to cool. The timing of Soup’s On! is particularly good, since I am happy for a break from cooking large, multi-course meals. A quick, hearty soup is perfect. But Soup’s On! doesn’t limit the selection of soups to winter. It has more than one hundred quick and easy recipes for every season.
The Cheesy Vegan by John Schlimm with Recipe
The Cheesy Vegan by John Schlimm shows you how to make vegan versions of America’s favorite comfort food from scratch and then goes on to provide 125 different recipes using those vegan cheeses.
Hello, Wine [Book Review & Meatloaf Recipe]
What’s the difference between a pinot noir and a pinotage? Which is the best wine to pair with fettuccine primavera? Do big red wines pair better with cheese? And what do you really need to know about ordering a bottle in a restaurant? Hello, Wine: The Most Essential Things You Need to Know About Wine by …
Uprisings: A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution – Book Review
Growing grains locally, whether on a backyard scale or on nearby farms, improves the economic situation of the local community and provides stability in the local food supply. Uprisings: A Hands-On Guide to the Community Grain Revolution shows how groups have come together to grow, harvest, mill, and sell local grains and lists positive steps to start your own local grain movement.
You Still Won’t Believe It’s Gluten-Free – Cookbook Review and Recipe
You Still Won’t Believe It’s Gluten-Free by Roben Ryberg adds another two hundred gluten-free recipes to her catalog of gluten-free cookbooks. The recipes in this book range from appetizers to breakfasts to entrees to sides.
Blessing Your Food: A Book Review
“Bless This Food” is a collection of blessings that people around the world and across time have used to thank their “higher powers” for the gift of food. Check out this nifty little book.
Permaculture Book Review: The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture
Permaculture is an ecological gardening technique that is “ancient yet cutting-edge technology”. Author Christopher Shein teaches gardeners both novice and experienced how to apply permaculture to vegetable gardens in The Vegetable Gardener’s Guide to Permaculture.
Tomatoes: Tomatoland Reveals the Sordid Truth
Who knew the story of tomatoes was so sordid: modern-day slavery, environmentally destructive chemical agriculture, and fossil fuel guzzling cross-country shipping– all for America’s least favorite fruit? Though the book was published in 2011, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed our Most Alluring Fruit is still quite relevant today and makes for a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in agriculture, politics and their own connection to food.
Olive Oil’s Sublime and Scandalous Story
Sublime, of course. But Scandalous… Really?
Indeed, the world of olive oil is more than old Italian men and women pruning their ancient groves and mashing olive fruits by stone. It involves tanker trucks contaminated with chemicals, petrochemical adulteration of oils, Mafioso-owned lands, and so much more. Who knew the iconic, humble olive could be so complicated?
The Sugar Detox – Book Review
Americans eat an average of seventy pounds of sugar each year. Most of that is not table sugar that we add to our breakfast or coffee; most of it is the hidden sugars, such as high fructose corn syrup and refined grain products. Sugar can wreak habit with our health and our looks. Authors Brooke Alpert and Patricia Farris have designed The Sugar Detox to help us get control of our sugar consumption.