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07 Sep, 2010

Review: Desserts 4 Today

Posted by: Susan In: Cooking Lit

Bibliography: Dodge, Abigail Johnson. (September 2010). Desserts 4 Today. New York: Taunton Press. ISBN: 9781600852947
Review:  I may have to stop reviewing cookbooks from Taunton Press–every single one I have chosen to review thus far I have wanted to own.  My personal copy ordered from Amazon is on it’s way to me as I type this.
What [...]

31 Oct, 2009

Review: Cake Keeper Cakes

Posted by: Susan In: Cooking Lit

Bibliography:  Chattman, Lauren.  (2009).  Cake Keeper Cakes.  New York: Taunton Press.  ISBN: 9781600851209
Review: I have many memories of cakes.  Birthday cakes, special cakes only made at Christmas, cakes I made to enter at the state fair.  Many of these were baked in a bundt or tube pan, and often served plain or only with a [...]

14 Sep, 2009

The Great American Taste Test

Posted by: Susan In: Cooking Lit| Virtual Lit

The Idea: Ron Douglas was working as a finance manager for J.P. Morgan Chase when his wife challenged him to make Kentucky Fried Chicken at home.  He turned to the Internet, but found only incomplete or not very accurate recipes.  He did discover a whole group of people, who like him, were trying to clone [...]

09 Sep, 2009

Review: Southern Living Comfort Food

Posted by: Susan In: Cooking Lit

Bibliography:  Editors of Southern Living Magazine, Foreword by Pat Conroy. (2009). Southern Living Comfort Food.  Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House.  ISBN: 9780848732660
Review: Southern Living Magazine is one of the definitive sources for Southern recipes, hospitality and entertaining for it’s readers.  Each recipe is tested and only the highest-rated recipes make it into the magazine and homes [...]

Powell, Julie.  (2005).  Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously. New York: Back Bay Books. ISBN: 978-0316109697
Child, Julia with Alex Prud’ Homme. (2006). My Life in France.  New York: Knopf. ISBN: 978-1400043460
I picked up an advanced copy of Julie and Julia at the ALA Conference in Chicago in the summer of 2005.  However, while [...]


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