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Recently I was looking for a lemon recipe and nothing in my cookbooks seemed right. When I turned to a friend for advice, she recommended two easy-to-search websites, All Recipes and Recipe Zaar . My friend and I looked together and ended up choosing a lemon cream cupcake recipe with a 4.4 (out of 5...
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In January, I made a New Year's Resolution (even though I don't like New Year's Resolutions) to cook and bake more. I've used recipes from many sources but some of the best have been from Baking Illustrated by the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. I've made the banana bread...
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You can tell I'm behind again in reading my RSS feeds -- I've caught up to Earth Day. But these are such interesting sites I have to share them. Free Green offers free energy-efficient house plans, with full construction documentation and other related material. You can also join the community...
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Sunday night I finished reading The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll . I still haven't figured out how I really feel about it. It's a little bit creepy, a little bit funny and a lot weird. It is a book that entertains, but also makes you think about some big things. It's a lot about love...
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Comfort Food (2008) by Kate Jacobs is a light book set in the world of a cable cooking channel. I listened to the audio version while on a road trip. That's a good format for this novel. There's not much to think about with this book, it is just good entertainment. Funny and ecclectic characters...
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Daphne Durham (Amazon.com) says “Ruth Reichl is a wonderful memoirist--a funny, poignant, and candid storyteller whose books contain a happy mix of memories, recipes, and personal revelations.” This is a great description of Reichl's book Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic...
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I love food, and I am a sucker for a man who can cook. So when I heard Melanie Dunea being interviewed on NPR about her book My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and their Final Meals , I knew I needed to check it out, especially since the Introduction is written by Anthony Bourdain, one of my all-time favorite...
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We have lots of cookbooks for kids, and looking through them will reward you with a number of interesting things that could be made for presents. No-Cook Cooking by Ting and Neil Morris has recipes for creations that don't even require use of the stove. On pages 6 and 7 I found directions for muesli...
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The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electronic Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami and Other DIY Projects For Techies, Tinkerers and Foodies by Patrick Buckley and Lily Binns If you're a foodie and a techie, this is the book that will allow you to combine your hobbies for maximum enjoyment. Personally, I'm...
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Red Bank Branch has two upcoming events concerning our food and where it comes from. On Wednesday September 24 at 6:30pm Marvin Kemper and Joe Schalansky of Seton Harvest will be speaking. Seton Harvest is a CSA, or community supported agriculture project. Next, on Wednesday October 15 at 6:30pm Suzan...
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What with all the hurricane talk, I got to thinking about a picture book that's been a long time favorite. If you haven't read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judy Barrett, you're in for a weather and food treat. Grandpa tells the story of the people who lived in the town of Chewandswallow...
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King Corn (2007) is documentary that starts with two recent college graduates from Boston finding out (through hair testing) that their body mainly consists of corn. This discovery leads them to relocate to Iowa and convince a farmer to let them grow one acre of corn all by themselves in hopes of finding...
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This is a fascinating discussion of our relationship to the food we eat. Mr. Pollan first discusses the familiar Industrial Agricultural system, a topic that's been covered by many other books in one way or another, but Pollan provides a good overview to the problems this system presents us. I didn't...