Burning Up: Seven Fires by Francis Mallmann [cookbook review]
Francis Mallmann is South America's most famous chef, which really ought to afford him more of a measure of North American fame than he's had up until now. It's not that he hasn't tried: there was an...
View ArticleWhat's Wrong With France: Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger [book...
I like France. Granted, I haven’t been there since I hit puberty, but I have fond memories of munching on crunchy frittures, sipping on citron pressés, taking tastes of my parents’ kir royales....
View ArticleMoving Forward, Looking Backward: Fresh, Coop, and Deeply Rooted [book review]
A hundred years ago, we ate what was local and easily grown in our county. Today we have Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, 7/11, and McDonald’s, who serve us food from around the world all year long. But...
View ArticleThe Comprehensive Julia Child Bibliography [books!]
I remember Julia Child like an old, tipsy, happy relative who cooked gourmet French meals laden with enough butter to kill a small donkey. She was my Saturday mornings. Watching her now is like...
View ArticleThe Wine Opus, The $1 Million Wine Book
Photo via ldandersen on Flickr Publisher Kraken Opus — whose slogan is "The most luxurious series of publications ever created" — has announced that they'll be publishing a book on wine that will...
View ArticleThis Is Why You're Fat Book Available for Pre-order
The book we've all been waiting for, This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks, is available for preorder on Amazon at a rather affordable $9.99. You know you want it. Out October 27,...
View ArticleThe Eat Me Daily Fall 2009 Non-Cookbook Preview
While fall truly belongs to the cookbooks, there's still a large selection on deck for the food lovers who are less than kitchen inclined. Along with anthologies from The New York Times (Eat, Memory)...
View ArticleWhat's a Foodie, Anyway? The Foodie Handbook by Pim Techamuanvivit [book review]
Photograph: Eat Me Daily I'm not a regular reader of Chez Pim, the all-things-gourmandise blog that's been written by Pim Techamuanvivit for the past four many years. I've been marginally aware of...
View ArticleOffal of the Week: The Essential Library
If it's Friday, it must be Offal of the Week! Brought to you by Ryan Adams, author of the blog Nose to Tail at Home, each week we highlight a different part of the animal that you've always wanted to...
View ArticleCookbook Review: My New Orleans by John Besh: Beyond the Bayou
Photograph: Eat Me Daily New Orleans has been drawn so many times — using so many of the same stories, the same hooks, the same oddball characters and domestic-exotica veneer — that it's hard to have...
View ArticleWeighty Issues: The Heaviest Cookbooks Out There
42.9 pounds of books. Photo: Paula Forbes We have been known, on occasion, to make fun of (and also defend) the thick, cloth bound, coffee table versions of cookbooks. Recently we've noticed that this...
View ArticleBook Review: This Is Why You're Fat: An Extraordinary Document of Human...
Photo: Raphael Brion / Eat Me Daily We finally got our grubby paws on what could be the most hotly-anticipated book release of 2009, This Is Why You're Fat: Where Dreams Become Heart Attacks ($9.99,...
View ArticleCookbook Review: Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan: The Hype, Justified
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily I held my breath when I heard there was going to be a Momofuku cookbook. Restaurant cookbooks are always a tricky proposition, a tenuous juggling act of...
View ArticleFood Books Dominate Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009
Forget about the body being cold — 2009 isn't even dead, and Publisher's Weekly is already calling the best books of the year. Notable, though, is PW's top pick for nonfiction, Frank Bruni's memoir...
View ArticleYear-End Best-Ofs: Amazon's Best Books of 2009
And so the deluge begins. Hot on the heels of Publishers Weekly's list of the best book of 2009 comes Amazon's editors' take on the year in print. Frank Bruni's Born Round — which topped PW's...
View ArticleCookbook Review: Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Beyond the Food Network
Photo: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily In case you didn't know that Michael Symon, author of Michael Symon's Live to Cook: Recipes and Techniques to Rock Your Kitchen (Amazon) appears on Iron Chef...
View ArticleThe Fat Duck Cookbook: More Affordable, Less Big
Photograph: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily The smaller and — more importantly — cheaper edition of Heston Blumenthal's magnum opus The Big Fat Duck Cookbook is now available. Appropriately titled the...
View ArticleCookbook Review: Simple Fresh Southern by Matt Lee and Ted Lee: Sibling Rivalry
Photograph: Helen Rosner / Eat Me Daily The misleading thing about sophomore slump, as a concept, is that it focuses on the downturn. That's not to say that the theory doesn't hold water: with that...
View ArticleWaffle House to Host a Book Tour
Photograph by Eli Hodapp Waffle House, the Southern chain of greasy (that's gree-zee to you Northerners) diners, is going to host a book tour! Sam McLeod's food memoir, Big Appetite: My Southern-Fried...
View ArticleBook Review: Cleaving by Julie Powell: Rough Cuts
Photograph: Paula Forbes / Eat Me Daily Julie Powell's central metaphor in Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession (Amazon) is the idea of butchery as therapy: it is, essentially, the act...
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