(Cook)Book Club: An Everlasting Meal
At the last (Cook)Book Club get together, a couple new people joined us and we had a great time. We decided to read An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler for next time. The...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper
We chose Fuchsia Dunlop’s Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in China for our next get together because it sounds really interesting: “An extraordinary memoir of an...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: Fresh Off the Boat
We chose the memoir Fresh Off the Boat for our next get together because it sounds really interesting: “Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: How to Cook a Wolf
For our next get together, we went old school and chose a classic originally published in 1942: “Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartime shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally...
View Article(Cook) Book Club: Vegetable Literacy
Since it’s almost summer, we decided to have a potluck next month. All you have to do is choose a recipe from the cookbook, make the dish and bring it to Mosswood Park to share. It’s always fun, so...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: Afro-Vegan
The launch party was just a couple months ago so I’m really excited to check out Bryant Terry’s newest cookbook. We chose Afro-Vegan for our next potluck: “African, Caribbean, and southern food are all...
View ArticleTexas Caviar Recipe
photo: Christina Mitchell Afro-Vegan is a beautiful cookbook by Bryant Terry, who lives in Oakland with his family. The photographs are stunning and the African textile prints really add a lot of...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: My Paris Kitchen
The picture on the cover of David Lebovitz’s new book is downright mouth-watering. My Paris Kitchen is “a story about how I cook in Paris – where I shop, how I find ingredients, the friends I like to...
View Article(Cook)Book Club: Taco USA
(Cook)Book Club has been meeting (and eating) at Mosswood Park since the spring and now we’re moving inside for the winter. We decided to read Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America by Gustavo...
View ArticleCook(Book) Club: Delicious
We had a great time last month and decided to read Ruth Reichl’s Delicious for our next get together. She’s a former restaurant critic and most of use have already read (and loved) her three memoirs....
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....