Food How To Make The Perfect Burger July 3, 2009 • Barbecue chef extraordinaire Adam Perry Lang teaches NPR's David Greene how to grill that ultimate burger. The recipe is complex, but Lang says barbecue novices need not be concerned. The trick, he says, is to get organized and be prepared.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'The Spice Kitchen' May 26, 2009 • In her quirky, globe-trotting book The Spice Kitchen Michal Haines displays a range of culinary endeavor that would dazzle the most jaded spice merchant on the Silk Road.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'Preserved' May 26, 2009 • Even if you don't want to salt your own pork, smoke your own duck or preserve your own lemons, that's OK. Preserved, by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton, is filled with recipes that will work with dried, canned and preserved goods from the store too.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'Tacos' May 26, 2009 • In case you were wondering when would be the best time to get beyond the fast-food tacos you grew up with, that time is now.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned' May 26, 2009 • In Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned, Elizabeth Karmel skips the usual macho seminar on flame-taming and gear, and instead trains her laser-like focus on the real prize: where the flavor comes from.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'The Modern Vegetarian' May 26, 2009 • There's something sweetly avant-garde about the recipes in Maria Elia's The Modern Vegetarian, a book that loves its grains and vegetables for their own sake, not for their ability to masquerade as meat or camouflage its absence.
Cookbooks and Recipes Recipes: 'Vefa's Kitchen' May 26, 2009 • So many of the elements of the Greek kitchen are well known, yet for one reason or another they don't add up to something we turn to night after night. Maybe that's because there hasn't been a basic, here's-how-we-do-it Greek Joy of Cooking — until now.
Books The Matzo Ball Matriarch of American Jewish Food April 12, 2009 • The Settlement Cook Book is largely forgotten today. But in its time, Lizzie Black Kander's book exposed Jewish homemakers transplanted from Eastern Europe to the American way of cooking — and living.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Simply Organic' May 28, 2008 • Many an organic manifesto has hit the bookstore of late, but Simply Organic is different: light on sermonizing, and neck-deep in great recipes that highlight familiar seasonal flavors. Try Asparagus and Scallops and, for dessert, the Basil-Lemon Cake.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Raising the Salad Bar' May 28, 2008 • Summertime is salad time! Try an Arugula and Avocado Salad with Shaved Parmesan, topped with a garlicky lemon dressing. Or, if you still can't warm up to your leafy greens, maybe a sprightly Chicken Salad with Fruit and Toasted Pecans is more to your liking?
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Mediterranean Fresh' May 27, 2008 • "Worldly but not pretentious, Joyce Goldstein's book appeals to the grown-up palate that doesn't mind if it never sees an iceberg wedge again," says T. Susan Chang. If this sounds like you, try Figs, Greens, and Prosciutto with Gorgonzola Cream Dressing or Grilled Squid Stuffed with Rice and Shrimp.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: '101 Sangrias & Pitcher Drinks' May 27, 2008 • Sangria is one of the great pleasures of summer entertaining; its fruity, winey buzz goes equally well with spicy dishes and cool salads. So pour a glass of Wildberry or Spanish Sangria — the recipe's on us.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Gelato!' May 27, 2008 • With just four or five ingredients and an ice cream maker, you can surrender to the arctic charms of Pistachio Gelato or Melon Sorbetto. You don't even have to separate an egg.
Books Cooking and Cookbooks May 27, 2008 • This year's collection of summer cookbooks features dishes that are fresh, flavorful and full of color. From fish made easy (finally!) to five score (and one) Sangria recipes, you'll find cool menus for all your warm-weather occasions.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Fish Without A Doubt' May 27, 2008 • Somehow, seafood always tastes better in the summer, and this book, says T. Susan Chang, is like "having your smart aunt in the kitchen, saving you from your own foolish, blundering self." Why not start with Key West Ceviche or center a meal on the Grilled Dorade with Hoisin Glaze?
Cooking and Cookbooks The 10 Best Cookbooks for Summer May 27, 2008 • This year's collection of bright, colorful, can-do summer cookbooks issues a rallying cry: How long can you go without turning on the oven?
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Summer Gatherings' May 27, 2008 • Rick Rodgers works with familiar warm-weather flavors and tweaks them just a bit. Try it yourself with Spaghetti with Roasted Summer Vegetable Sauce or Grilled Chicken with White Rosemary Barbecue Sauce.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Grill It!' May 27, 2008 • This book streamlines strong flavors into bold, relatively simple recipes. Our recommendations? Easy Memphis-Style Barbecued Pork Spareribs or Smoke-Roasted Chicken Thighs with Maple Barbecue Sauce.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Screen Doors and Sweet Tea' May 27, 2008 • This wisecracking, story-telling treasury of Southern cooking offers a variety of delicious dishes. Some, like Apricot Rice Salad, have an elegant, dinner-on-the-porch feel. Others (All for Okra and Okra for All), are resolutely egalitarian.
Cooking and Cookbooks Recipes: 'Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes' May 27, 2008 • What the recipes in this book have in common are vibrant contrasts of color, texture and taste — try Brussels Sprouts with Marjoram and Pine Nuts or Orecchiette with Tomatoes and Garden Herbs.
What Are Your Summer Reads? Chef Sang Yoon, Cookin' and Bookin' August 6, 2006 • Before he opened his own place (a bar and restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif., called Father's Office) Sang Yoon served up gourmet cuisine at Michael's. As our series of summer reading chats continues, he reveals a taste for books about eats.
Sun-Kissed Summer Cookbooks and Recipes June 13, 2005 • Food blogger Heidi Swanson shares her favorite new summer cookbooks as well as a few classics that she returns to regularly. She also includes a favorite recipe from each book.