Custom Cookbooks

I remember in the old days of working in offices, some of the women and maybe a couple of men would put together favorite recipes to share, photocopy, bind and give to each other.  Some fundraisers even revolved around collecting recipes and selling it in a cookbook format.  Well just found out about a new venture in beta that allows you to cull recipes from various cooking sites and get it printed and bound.   It looks like this would also make a great bridal shower gift or high school/college graduation gift.

 Tastebook.com

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What’s for Lunch

KQED QUEST Radio Segment

We’ve all heard the latest health advice: avoid transfats. Eat more fruits and vegetables. But for many school children, their cafeteria lunch menus haven’t caught up. This year, an effort to get healthy foods to the school lunch table is tied up in a much larger debate– national farm policy.

Pumpkin Spice Truffles

from Pumpkin Spice Truffles

The amazing thing is that these pumpkin-free wonders taste uncannily like pumpkin pie. Not that anyone will have trouble distinguishing your truffles and a pie, but you just might get asked, “Are these actually made with pumpkin?”

gastrokid

check out gastrokid

Madonna Lisa writes:
Editor of Bon Appetit writes a blog of his (mis)adventures of getting food
to his kids..one picky..another one not so picky...lots of great links to
other kid-friendly food/restaurant sites.

Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus

via the New York Times

In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. Alluding to his office’s famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet was a problem of “comparable” magnitude, chiefly because of the high-fat foods that were causing coronary heart disease and other deadly ailments.

Jacques in Mexico

via MSN Travel Articles

Legendary chef Jacques Pépin escapes to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, to watch the waves, drink chilled rosé and use his French technique to transform local ingredients into simple yet elegant recipes.

Searching for Julia Child

a PopMatters Television Feature

Before I started my research — two weeks of watching cooking series — I assumed that today’s tv cooks, even if they possessed Child’s technical prowess, wouldn’t be nearly so endearing. I was partly right. In fact, many vibrant personalities host cooking shows, as well as numerous exceptional culinary teachers. Few individuals are both.

Food Porn Friday: Beets from Ideas in Food

This friday’s luciousness comes from our new favorite, ideas in food

IDEAS IN FOOD

IDEAS IN FOOD: a blog and so much more

As for what we will be putting in my steamed buns, we may try BBQ eel or perhaps smoked lobster salad. Or even chewy hot fudge and macerated strawberries, raspberries and lemon cream or cajun steamed shrimp with crisp green onions and remoulade. The possibilities are endless…

Delighted to stubble upon Ideas in Food, an extraordinary blog full of photos, recipes, ideas, notebooks… cumin lemonade, white pepper panna cotta, and more strange and wonderful ideas.

The Essence of Nearly Anything, Drop by Limpid Drop

in the New York Times

Gelatin filtration is a way to make sparklingly clear liquids that are intensely flavored with … well, whatever you like: meats, fruits, vegetables, cheeses, breads, any and all combinations of ingredients.