Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This book will inspire you to make pasta dishes every night. There are recipes for spicy chickpea and sweet potato penne, cold orzo salad with tomato, artichoke and olives, fried macaroni and cheese balls, and a perfect pesto. And lots more.
Recipe excerpted with permission from Posh Pasta by Phillippa Spence, published by Quadrille
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from Milk Jar Cookies by Courtney Cowan, photography by Ashley Maxwell
Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
I was enchanted with these pretty no-bake pretzels. There are wonderful recipes for baked goods, too. Get the book and make some banana split cookies, blueberry ricotta pancakes, and fudge.
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Recipe excerpted with permission from Rizzoli
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book combines traditional and modern kosher recipes, some with an international twist, all with gorgeous photographs. Try the smoked salmon rosettes, shawarma, mushroom lasagnette, falafel with beet hummus, or tuna-stuffed tomatoes. And the adorably named Chicken Massaged with Shmaltz. But try these latkes first.
Recipe excerpted with permission from Rizzoli Publications
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This classic cookbook, written by my amazing baker-friend, is full of all sorts of recipes and tips. It’s time to start baking your holiday cookies. First up: this ultimate, simple, sugary cookie. Then bake the chocolate spice cookies. They will whip up quickly. After that, his decorated gingerbread cookies, the chocolate version of the sablés, and a few dozen fig bars and hermits. Fill tins to send off to your loved ones and be sure to save one for yourself.
Recipe excerpted with permission from How to Bake by Nick Malgieri (Dover Books)
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This book inspired me to get in the kitchen and make my own dumplings and buns. I am working my way through the ramen and rice noodle section. Soon, I will try Biang Biang Noodles and a lovely rainbow salad. The vegetarian Lo Mein recipe is easy and fun to whip up on a cold fall evening.
Recipe excerpted with permission from Dumplings and Noodles by Pippa Middlehurst, photography by India Hobson & Magnus Edmondson, published by Quadrille.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
Chef Pépin was a dean when I went to culinary school, many years ago. He was always kind, with a twinkle in his eye. And he can cook most of us under the table, pun intended. His cookbook is filled with wonderful recipes, photos, and lovely paintings. There is an interesting cabbage, shrimp, and caviar dish; a garlicky roast leg of lamb; pureed peas with mint; and an apple brown Betty after my own heart. Go in your kitchen and try this simple dish.
Excerpted from JACQUES PÉPIN QUICK & SIMPLE © 2020 by Jacques Pépin. Photography © 2020 by Tom Hopkins. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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by David Hawksworth, Jacob Richler and Stéphanie Nöel
Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book has inspired me to go in the kitchen and add to my recipe repertoire. The local farm markets still have some fabulous melons, perfect for the simple watermelon, cherry tomato & Macedonian feta salad. The book also has detailed instructions for preparing gravlax from a side of salmon, a yummy pea soup with lobster on the side, Thai fish curry, a mile-high burger with homemade onion rings, and a very enticing lemon tart. And about a million other recipes that I can’t wait to dig into. First up, this tomato soup for a cozy dinner as the evenings turn cold.
Excerpted from Hawksworth by David Hawksworth, Jacob Richler and Stéphanie Nöel. Copyright © 2020 David Hawksworth Photography by Clinton Hussey Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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Cookbook review by Tracey Zabar
This beautiful book holds a culinary trip to Italy, with a little bit of France thrown in. Try this pasta dish that is easy to throw together and get on the table. There is also a recipe for torta pasqualina that is right out of my childhood. I remember my eighty-year-old cousin, Grace, cutting one open to reveal Swiss chard or maybe escarole, with a perfectly cooked hard boiled egg in the center of each slice. It was so beautiful that you barely knew, as a child, you were eating a green vegetable. I never asked her for the recipe, because I was afraid of her. Now, thanks to this book, I have it!
Reprinted from Old World Italian. Copyright © 2020 by Marie-France Thorisson. Photographs copyright © 2020 by Oddur Thorisson. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of Random House.
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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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