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Unrefined and organic varieties come in many different colors and crystal shapes. There are dark, rich gooey browns, sticky blonds and even fine-grain off-white varieties. They may be new to Americans, but they have been available in Europe for decades. British chefs like cookbook author Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver, host of the Food Network's The Naked Chef, have regularly used them in their sweet and savory recipes. Lawson applauds their arrival in America, saying "If you bake, you're really limiting yourself by using just white or brown sugar. And if you're an adult with...
Listen to the soft sounds of classical music as you peruse many first editions in their original leather bindings. Check out Commonwealth’s selection of used history books, many in the original French, Spanish, or Italian, or its extensive used cookbook section (useful when HUDS gets to be too much...
...their windows spray-painted with the number of bodies found inside. The French Quarter and the Garden District lie dark and deserted, a wasteland of downed power lines, cars with flat tires, massive Spanish oaks toppled at their roots and scattered reminders of the city's former self--a cookbook open to a recipe for ham croquettes, strings of Mardi Gras beads. What little life remains in New Orleans is largely devoted to counting the dead, a task so vast and grim that even the city's coroner, Frank Minyard, doesn't hazard a guess at what lies beneath...
Down-home fare is already the subject of several timely cookbooks, including Miss Mary's Down-Home Cooking by Diana Dalsass (New American Library), Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen (Morrow) and Joan Nathan's An American Folklife Cookbook (Schocken). The most impassioned paean to Momma cooking is Jane and Michael Stern's Square Meals (Knopf). In their march down memory lane, the authors celebrate dishes from what many people rightfully consider the Dark Ages of American eating: tuna casseroles sauced with canned mushroom soup, Back-to-Bataan Spam and patently disgusting creations like a cabbage-apple-and-pickle salad with evaporated...
...takes place on Father's Day. Real Men volunteers whip up huge batches of their favorite dishes, people buy tickets, and everyone chows down. This year, the event's 16th, Moyo expects 1,000 male cooks to feed 30,000 mouths in 10 cities. Moyo also has a new cookbook, Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living (Fireside Press; 192 pages). He aims to help local charities, such as Chicago's Community Mental Health Council. In the past 15 years he has raised $800,000. But he also wants to make a point: cooking is not just women...