When hosting dinner parties, I love to prepare lavish spreads of dishes served family style, all at once, in the middle of the table. Indian has always been my cuisine of choice for this kind of meal for the complexity of its flavors, the fact that you can prepare almost everything in advance, and the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Books
{Book Review} Hiroko’s American Kitchen – Cooking with Japanese Flavors
I have said before that Japanese cuisine has intimidated me ever since I came back from Japan. Sure, I spent hours in the kitchen to produce a fantastic Japanese-themed dinner we enjoyed at Christmas last year, but other than that, I have struggled to incorporate the delicate but oh-so-satisfying flavors of Japanese cuisine into our… Continue Reading
A Conversation with Béatrice Peltre, Photographer and Author of La Tartine Gourmande
Last Saturday, I was lucky enough to spend the day with Béatrice Peltre, photographer, blogger and author of La Tartine Gourmande. When I think back of the people who inspired me to start blogging, she’s at the very top of the list. She was in Montreal for a food photography workshop organized by Mayssam, from… Continue Reading
Celebrating Color with Ripe: A Fresh Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables {Win a signed copy of the book!}
My RSS Reader is embarrassingly loaded. I have 1000+ unread items at any given time, but I can’t manage to edit the list of blogs I follow because I truly feel like I need to read all of them (even though I rarely have time to). When I feel desperately overwhelmed, I click the dreaded… Continue Reading
{Book Review} Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty – and Puy Lentil Galettes
I know, Plenty is hardly a new book, having been published last spring, but it looks as though its popularity isn’t due to run out of steam anytime soon. Still today, I continue to see Twitter, Facebook and blog posts written about it several times a week, and they are always positive, laudatory, even. It… Continue Reading