Vibrant India, Chitra Agrawal's ode to South Indian vegetarian cooking is due out on March 21 from Ten Speed Press. You might know Chitra from her blog, ABCD's of Cooking, or her condiment line, Brooklyn Delhi. In the book, she's sharing a collection of quick vegetable stirfrys, salads, chutneys and pickles, rice dishes and hearty vegetarian stews.
I've…
Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel Sesame Seasoning blend is taking over the Internet. You've probably seen it all over Instagram at #traderjoes and in some of food pubs you read on the regular. The checker at Trader Joe's said he does a reverse everything and put it on a plain bagel. But that's just…
New month, new book deals. Here are our food and cookbook picks from Amazon's Kindle deals for March. For the full list visit: http://amzn.to/2mepU6b.
In his autobiography, Chef Roy Choi talks about growing up as a Korean-American in LA. 3.84 average rating on Goodreads.
First published in 1914, Commonsense Cookery is an Australian Home Ec classic.
Will it Waffle takes…
Today we're unwrapping Alice Clayton's Buns (the cover, anyway!), the third book in her foodie rom-com Hudson Valley series, coming in May. Check out the synopsis below -- this one's Archie and Clara's story. While we wait, get your own hot cross buns in shape or check out the first two books in the series, Nuts and Cream…
Jeanette Grey’s latest is a steamy, sexy, scorcher of self-discovery.
**ARC won in a Twitter contest from the author/publisher**
Jeanette Grey has a serious knack for bringing together gorgeous European locales, smokin’ hot sexy times and stories of self-discovery. Seven Nights to Surrender and Eight Ways to Ecstasy explored the theme with an aspiring artist and a…
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Descent, from the National Park Service's Collection of Historical Documents.
In 1940, my grandma was a 21-year old maid in Los Angeles. She worked for a family the Jefferson Park neighborhood and her name is listed with theirs in the Census. By the time President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive…
**ARC provided by publisher via Net Galley in exchange for honest review**
Andrea Nguyen's The Pho Cookbook is a must have for pho-lovers. Garnished with history and personal stories of her travels in Vietnam, it has an avenue for *every* cook to make pho at home. Quick or classic, vegetarian or not, the Pho Cookbook has…
The spice profile in Mexican chorizo makes it a love-it or hate-it proposition. While I love the the zing of vinegar with chiles, paprika, cinnamon and cumin, my husband would just as soon not. You can mix the chile paste mixture into ground pork or turkey, and as I discovered last week, you can (and you…
**ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review**
The Girl Before is a thought-provoking psychological thriller with a whisper of techno-sci-fi. It's tempting to compare it with other books with "Girl" in the title, but if anything, it's more like Girl on the Train meets Black Mirror. The book's deliciously…
Cutting up a whole chicken seems like one of those kitchen artforms lost to time, literally because there's not enough of it. My mom dismantled whole birds on the regular when I was a kid because doing it yourself was so much cheaper than paying for the boneless, skinless. It's a thing I've only gotten better…
