Category: Book Review

Pickled Beets and Turnips: Passover Made Easy Reviewed

The list of forbidden foods for the week of Pesach (Passover) starts with wheat, barley, rye, spelt and oats.  For some, typically those of Eastern European decent,  rice, millet, corn and legumes like beans and lentils are removed from homes and diets for the week-long festival too.  These ingredients, and dishes that contain them are banished from pantries; we don’t cook with them, we don’t give them to our pets, and we’re [...]

10 March, 2013 // By : // 33 Comments

Book Review & Giveaway: The Bengali Five Spice Chronicles

I can get lost for hours browsing the shelves of book stores but unless I am flying alone or reading a bedtime story to our son, it’a rare that I get the chance to read, so when I find a cook book that comes to life and tells a story, as well as introducing my to a brand new world of culinary flair, I know that I have found a winning combination. [...]

28 January, 2013 // By : // 32 Comments

Book Review & Giveaway: CHIC Made Simple

Before I got married, I almost never read, or purchased, a cookbook.  I felt that cooking was an art, not a science, so written instruction would inhibit my creative expression. My wife, on the other hand, had a collection of cook books and before long we developed a custom that I quickly grew to love.  When planning for Friday night dinner, we pick as many cook books as we can [...]

4 December, 2012 // By : // 15 Comments

Review and Giveaway: Real Food Fermentation

Not until I read Real Food Fermentation by Alex Lewin did I understand the scope of fermenting our own food.  With each and every page I read, I feel like Alex and I would become friends if we ever had the chance to meet.  The way Lewin writes about produce and food-prep demonstrates a loving, and healthy relationship with nutrition – a relationship most of us would admit we need to [...]

8 November, 2012 // By : // 17 Comments

Portobello and White Bean Goulash – Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker Book Review

As plant-based diets become more and more mainstream and people’s lives become busier and busier I’m noticing more and more vegan slow cooker cookbooks.  In reviewing Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker by Robin Roberston, I underwent an eye-opening experience that allowed me to think of my slow cooker somwhat differently and when I came across the review by Keepin It Kind I knew that this was the dish and beautiful photo I wanted [...]

10 October, 2012 // By : // 19 Comments

In Search of the Perfect Cup of Coffee

It’s been a battle, but a battle well fought is a battle won.  I am not sure what made me decide it was time to rid myself om mt $15 Mr Coffee pot that I purchased at Walmart.  It’s still functional but I wanted something a little different.  I never felt like the drip mechanism was every truly clean, and I was forever over-brewing my coffee and drinking or throwing [...]

19 September, 2012 // By : // 5 Comments

The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen by Lévana Kirschenbaum

My appreciation for cook books has grown over the last five years.  I’m yet to buy myself any of Julia Child‘s works, but my book-case is yawning with the weight of the artisan style cook books that have caught my attention and been added to my collection.  Amongst my favorites are Tartine Bread, Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys, Aromas of Aleppo: The Legendary Cuisine of Syrian Jews, [...]

5 September, 2012 // By : // 21 Comments

Guest Post: Chorosh Sabsi with Kateh

Have you ever tasted Persian cooking?  It really is one of a kind and nothing can compare.  When I first met today’s guest blogger in 2008, my new bride told me of all the wonderful meals she had eaten from Reyna’s kitchen.  Fast forward a few years and Reyna’s first book Persian Food from the Non Persian Bride was published.  Today, Reyna shares her journey to clean eating with you, [...]

20 March, 2012 // By : // No Comments

Giveaway: The Vegan Slow Cooker (and Slow Cooker Indian Spiced Chickpea Quinoa Curry)

As echoed by my WeightWatchers leader, Anne in response to my tamale pie, the benchmark of a good vegetarian (or in this case, vegan) dish is whether or not you would serve it to meat-eating guests.  When I discovered The Vegan Slow Cooker by Kathy Hester, I read it cover to cover, and there is not a dish I would hesitate to serve to a starving carnivore.  Not only is [...]

13 March, 2012 // By : // 31 Comments