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Books by Alan Richardson
The Breath of a Wok
Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore
- Hardcover, 240 pages
Olives and Oranges
Recipes and Flavor Secrets from Italy, Spain, Cyprus, and Beyond
- Hardcover, 372 pages
NPR stories about Alan Richardson
Food
'Tuesdays With Dorie': A Community In The Kitchen
January 17, 2012 In 2008, an online community of bakers vowed to bake one recipe a week from Dorie Greenspan's cookbook Baking: From My Home to Yours. Four years and 370 recipes later, the enthusiastic cooks finished baking all of the galettes and cobblers in December 2011.
Food
Family's Move To Tuscany Shapes Daughter's Menu
January 16, 2011 For Sara Jenkins and her mother, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, food is a family affair — and a family business. Nancy, a food writer, lived in an old Tuscan farmhouse in a steep mountain valley. It was there that she first introduced her daughter, Sara, to uncomplicated cooking and fresh, flavorful ingredients.
Best Books Of 2010
2010's Best Cookbooks: Real-Life Labors Of Love
November 21, 2010 This year, cooks poured their hearts into these carefully crafted, kitchen how-tos. T. Susan Chang says these cookbooks are like a properly seasoned skillet — heavy-duty, battle-tested and much to be prized.
Recipe: 'Cauliflower-Bacon Gratin'
November 19, 2010 From Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan.
Recipe: 'Lamb And Dried Apricot Tagine'
November 19, 2010 From Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan.
Food
Gifts For The Gods: Food For The Chinese New Year
January 16, 2009 A tradition for the Chinese New Year is to leave out food for the kitchen god to ensure a prosperous year. Food writer Grace Young talks about the reasons for putting food on the altar —and some of the recipes her family cooks up, like fried garlic lettuce.
Food
Sara Jenkins: Simple Mediterranean Cooking
October 20, 2008 For her new cookbook, Olives and Oranges, chef Sara Jenkins found inspiration in the memories of her childhood, when she traveled across Italy, Spain, France, Lebanon and Cyprus. She has fashioned her cooking style around recollections from that childhood abroad.
Holiday Recipes
Now, You Can Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding
December 18, 2007 For years, Michele Norris has wondered what exactly figgy pudding is. To find out more about the Christmas treat that generations of carolers have demanded, she invited baking expert Dorie Greenspan to her kitchen to prepare the dessert.
Food
Holiday Sweets: On the Road (and in the Mail)
November 16, 2007 The travel season — for people and for sweets — is approaching. Dorie Greenspan, author of the cookbook Baking, shares with Michele Norris her advice on how to pack your baked goods so they arrive tasty and intact.
Food
It's Never Too Hot in the Kitchen for Dessert
June 22, 2007 It's summertime, and the kitchen is too hot for big-time baking — and ice cream just won't cut it for everyone. Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan shares ideas for quick and easy desserts that take advantage of summer's bounty.
Food
Cookbook Author Explains Mysteries of Chocolate
February 13, 2007 Just in time for Valentine's Day, cookbook author Dorie Greenspan offers her advice on baking with chocolate, a notoriously finicky ingredient. She explains how chocolates are like wines, and shares ideas for using all that sweet stuff.
Holiday Recipes
Dorie Greenspan's Rugelach Secrets
December 20, 2006 Forget the last-minute shopping, put down the tinsel, and never mind the horde of relatives on the way. It's time to make holiday cookies. Baker and cookbook author Dorie Greenspan shares a wealth of baking tips for making rugelach.
Cookbooks: Two Cups of Joy and a Pinch of Comfort
November 27, 2006 However you feed your soul, this season's crop of cookbooks, crafted by big-name chefs, food personalities, and just plain good cooks, is sure to please those on your holiday list who take pleasure in preparing good things to eat.
Holiday Recipes
Beautiful Baking for the Holidays, Simplified
November 20, 2006 Dorie Greenspan calls herself the "baking evangelist." In her new cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours, she shares easy Thanksgiving recipes: sweet-potato biscuits, all-in-one holiday bundt cake and pumpkin marshmallows.
Food
Capturing the Elusive 'Breath of a Wok'
July 18, 2005 Melissa Block and food writer Grace Young trek through New York's Chinatown in search of wok hay, the magical essence released by a good wok when it's properly cared for and heated just right.
More Books
Author Interviews
A Portrait Of The Cartoonist And Her Mother
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel has a new memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author Interviews
A Quest For Roots Uncovers Ordinary People
Lawrence Jackson went on a quest to find his late grandfather's home in Virginia.
