Cooking

Honoring our mothers: History and health on the menu in Soul Food Love

“The kitchen has historically been a fraught place for many black Americans. Our family is among the many,” write New York Times best-selling author Alice Randall and her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, in their new book, Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a…

Michael RuscoeFebruary 21, 2015

Nonfiction

The Mark Bittman way to a faster, and better, Thanksgiving feast

In a year of rushed family dinners, one meal stands out: traditional, slow, and packed with family and memories— Thanksgiving. The feast is a favorite of many, but few cooks appreciate having to spend hours in the kitchen, when they really want to be sitting at the table. Mark Bittman’s…

Rosemary NewnhamNovember 17, 2014

Nonfiction

Don’t be a junk food vegetarian

The last time I ate meat (intentionally—like most vegetarians I’ve had a few accidental meat ingestions) was a ballpark hot dog in the summer of 2002 at Fenway Park in Boston. We were there on vacation and after the baseball game, we drove out to Cape Cod for the rest…

Karen T. SmithApril 25, 2014

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

Vignettes Paint a Colorful Mosaic of Life Lessons That Can Serve Anyone and Everyone

A 50-year-old woman is beginning to resign herself to a life without romantic love. She moves to Tulsa for work, without knowing anyone, and attends a Toastmasters District Conference with the intention of just meeting potential friends. At the event, she strikes up a conversation with some friendly women, and…

BookTribNovember 17, 2021

Fiction

Heat Index: 5 Hot New Books that Use Food and Drinks as Supporting Characters

There's nothing like food and drinks to bring a group of people together, whether it's a special occasion, a holiday or good ol' fashion picnic, at the heart of it all is the food we eat and the cocktails we drink. So it makes sense that the incorporation of food and…

Beth WaskoJune 23, 2016

Fiction

Is German food making a comeback with flavors of the Palatinate’s “Golden Autumn”?

Click to learn more As an American, I’ve always been inclined to lump “German food” into a predictable list: bratwurst, sauerkraut, and beer. Then I visited the Rhineland Palatinate (Pfalz) region of Germany to do research for my new novel, THE LAST OF THE BLACKSMITHS (Coffeetown Press, February 15, 2014),…

BookTribFebruary 7, 2014

Fiction

What would Hemingway eat? A menu for a Moveable Feast

I realized, as I worked my way through Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, that he titled it so because his time in Paris was an ongoing banquet of social activities, incessant writing, and literal feasting and imbibing from one café to the next. It was also most apparent to me…

IngridMarch 24, 2014

Listicles Listicles - Featured Miscellany Nonfiction

6 Cookbooks to Carry You Through Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year

Foodies rejoice because this is your holiday! Yes, Thanksgiving is all about, literally, giving thanks. But it’s also, indubitably, about the food. Smithsonian Magazine reported that some of our now-classics were at that first feast, including pumpkins, turkey and cranberries, but alas, there were no potatoes whether mashed, smashed or…

Judy MorenoNovember 18, 2021

Honoring our mothers: History and health on the menu in Soul Food Love

The Mark Bittman way to a faster, and better, Thanksgiving feast

Don’t be a junk food vegetarian

Vignettes Paint a Colorful Mosaic of Life Lessons That Can Serve Anyone and Everyone

Heat Index: 5 Hot New Books that Use Food and Drinks as Supporting Characters

Is German food making a comeback with flavors of the Palatinate’s “Golden Autumn”?

What would Hemingway eat? A menu for a Moveable Feast

6 Cookbooks to Carry You Through Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year

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