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Sour-Milk Griddle Cakes
Photography by Murray Hall; Food Styling by Jessie YuChen In this sour-milk griddle cake recipe—adapted from Edna Lewis’ The Taste of Country Cooking —a thick, tangy batter cooks up into soft, fluffy...
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Back of the Bookshelf: The Taste of Country Cooking
Edna Lewis’s masterpiece of Southern cuisine, The Taste of Country Cooking, is widely hailed as one of the most important cookbooks of the 20th century, so it doesn’t make sense that it would require...
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Back of the Bookshelf: Cucina Simpatica
Some time in the late 90’s, I was given a copy of Cucina Simpatica, the cookbook from Providence’s well-loved Al Forno restaurant. I was told that the authors, chef/owners Johanne Killeen and George...
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Back of the Bookshelf: The Last Course
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. When I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9 years old, I went to a neighbor’s house for dinner. It was my first...
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Back of the Bookshelf: The Good Cook
The Good Cook series was published by Time-Life Books (remember them?) back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, but I actually didn’t know about it until a few years ago when I found a few volumes tucked...
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Grated Potato and Cheese Omelette
Grated Potato and Cheese Omelette. Tim Mazurek This simple potato and cheese omelette, from The Good Cook: Eggs & Cheese, was shared with us by Tim Mazurek to accompany his “Back of the Bookshelf”...
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Learning to Love Eggnog
Infusing the rum with nutmeg adds nice warm undertones to the drink. You need to start the recipe the day before you plan on serving it, and you can make it with either heavy cream or half and half,...
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Back of the Bookshelf: The French Farm House Cookbook
It is at this time of year, when autumn begins to fade into winter, that I most often return to the pages of The French Farmhouse Cookbook (Workman, 1996). An almost anthropological compilation of...
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Back of the Bookshelf: Lee Bailey’s Country Weekends
I’m not sure how or when Lee Bailey first entered my life, but I am so glad he did. It’s most likely that I found one of his cookbooks in the dusty stacks of a used book store or in a bin at a yard...
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