Recipes Blog

Recipe for Veal Schnitzel and Green Potato Salad from Florence from Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & Stories from Around the World by Tori Haschka. Photographs by Isobel Wield. Illustrations by Andrea Turvey.

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful book, filled with gorgeous photos and illustrations, will take you around the world, via your own kitchen. So many interesting, new nibbles made me happy: Koshary from Cairo, Pastilla from Marrakech, Keftedes and Tzatziki from Santorini, and Remoulade from Reykjavik. There are some twists on old favorites too, like Peach Melba Pie from Iowa and Guacamole from Baja. These recipes for schnitzel and potato salad are not your typical Italian fare, but they are perfect for an early fall dinner.

Excerpted with permission from Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & Stories from Around the World (Ryland Peters & Small)

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Recipe for Poule au Pot from The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This cookbook features an amazing assortment of chicken soups from around the world—Tom Kha Gai, a gingery Thai noodle soup; Chicken Mafé, a West African peanut-flavored, spicy soup with eggplant and sweet potato; Cuban Ajiaco, a stew of chicken and beef; and a perfumed stew from Peru. Try Egyptian Kubbeh Hamusta; and dumplings from Germany. This French chicken in a pot is close to the classic Jewish penicillin. Spice it up or down, but try it, and also try Skink, a creamy Irish concoction with leeks and carrots; and Pennsylvania Dutch Rival, a chicken-filled corn chowder.

Recipe excerpted with permission The Chicken Soup Manifesto by Jenn Louis, published by Hardie Grant Books

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Recipe for Cream of Corn Soup from Soupology by Drew Smith

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

This beautiful cookbook bases the recipes on six basic broths and goes on from there. Then you add veggies, spices, and all sorts of ingredients. Try the carrot, rice and potato soup, chicken tom yum, beef, shrimp or miso broth, minestrone, and onion soup. Here’s a lovely recipe using the last of this season’s corn from your farmers’ market. It's lovely and delicious.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Soupology by Drew Smith, photographs by Tom Register (Rizzoli).

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Recipe for 24-Karat Cookies from Cookies are Magic by Maida Heatter

Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar

Here are some yummy cookies, filled with honey, to start your sweet new year. The rest of the book will keep you baking all fall. Fill your cookie jar with Pecan Butter Pillows, Maida’s Mother’s Gingersnaps, and Cookie Kisses.

Recipe excerpted with permission from Cookies are Magic by Maida Heatter (Little Brown and Company).

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