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The nerd’s guide to cocktails

The New Year has dawned. The hangovers have passed (hopefully). Now you are wondering what was in your cousin’s mystery punch and plotting ways to get him banned from every liquor store and wine shop in a 100-mile radius. Armed with a New Year’s resolution to not to be a…
Mea Stewart
January 1, 2015
Nonfiction

Dr. Jamie Koufman’s recipe for a heartburn-free Thanksgiving

What a way to ruin Thanksgiving. You’re thankful for family and friends, you’re thankful for the fantastic, not-too-dry turkey and you didn’t get stuffed on stuffing. But you’re not so thankful for the burning sensation that persists right below your sternum. Thankfully, Dr. Jamie Koufman, offers cooks—and, more importantly, eaters—several…
JeriAnn Geller
November 26, 2014
Nonfiction

12 fascinating things about Judy Garland

There’s a lot we don’t know about Judy Garland since she never wrote an autobiography, but Judy Garland on Judy Garland; Interviews and Encounters, edited by Randy L. Schmidt (Chicago Review Press, 2014) is the closest we’ll ever get to a Garland memoir. It’s a collection of terrific articles about…
Cathy Perlmutter
November 13, 2014
Nonfiction

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More: Just as good the second time

Plenty More is here, and there is plenty to love in it.  Few cookbooks have been so ardently anticipated as this follow-up volume to Yotam Ottolenghi’s 2011 sensation, Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi (Chronicle). To cut to the chase, the new volume, this one subtitled Vibrant Vegetable Cooking…
Karen Berman
November 7, 2014