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Jane and Michael Stern, young, humorous and well-educated Easterners, have become the self-styled clowns of American cooking. Where other critics travel haute, they take the low road to diners, cafeterias, luncheonettes and truck stops. Their first cookbook, Square Meals, was a paean to the Dark Ages of American cooking. The authors took culinary pratfalls advocating recipes for molded salads, casseroles based on canned soups and tuna fish, etc. Their new offering, Real American Food (Knopf; $19.95), is another, far more appetizing collection of recipes gathered from assorted low-down eateries. They include few recipes from fancy restaurants because...
Even among the leaders of the computer equal-rights movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...
...fashion greengrocers but in the supermarkets of several major chains. "Foods that look strange now (as ginger, shallots, bean sprouts and even avocados did not so long ago) may soon be common in our culinary vocabulary," writes Elizabeth Schneider in her carefully detailed and timely new buying guide and cookbook, Uncommon Fruits & Vegetables, A Commonsense Guide (Harper...
...Spain, at the sherry-sipping hours before lunch and dinner, bars offer an array of small dishes, hot and cold, to whet appetites for dinner and develop a thirst for further drinking. The convivial custom is popular from Barcelona to Seville, but Penelope Casas, in her cookbook Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain (Knopf), speculates that it began about a century ago in Andalusia, the home of sherry. Customers in wine bars and taverns were given slices of ham and sausage placed over the mouth of the glasses. The verb tapar means to cover, so the edible lids were called...
Times have changed since Betty Crocker made her debut in 1936 as a symbol of General Mills, and so has she. With five face-lifts through 1980, Betty grew younger and more modern. The sixth edition of General Mills' classic cookbook, published last week, presents Betty with a distinctly young urban professional look...