Title: Smart Chefs Stay Slim: Lessons in Eating and Living from America's Best Chefs Author/Release: Allison Adato, foreword by Art Smith (2012) Overview: Healthy-eating and living tips for navigating the best food on the planet as well as home recipes from top chefs such as Rick Bayless and Thomas Keller. Bite-Sized (snippets and sections I loved): - Eat what you love - how to be an effective picky eater surrounded by what you love - Eat the way your family did - why your forebearers ... View Post
Books To Devour: My Father’s Daughter {Cookbook Review}
Title: My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness Author/Release: Gwyneth Paltrow, foreword by Mario Batali (April 2011) Overview: Equal parts cookbook, memoir of a food-centric upbringing and forthright tips on a healthy outlook and life philosophy. Chock full of excellent and simple ways to cook healthy meals with simple prep. Bite-Sized (snippets and sections I loved): - Why I don't eat red meat - a calm but direct and informative ... View Post
More Books To Devour
I posted last month on some of my favorite foodie reads: Books to Devour. If you didn't read it, I'd love for you to skim it and add your favorite food-centric reads. I also set up a special shelf on Goodreads for these tantalizing tomes. Today, I'm adding to it all the books on my foodie "to read" list. Although I just read and couldn't get enough of The Hunger Games trilogy, I suppose they don't technically count. As the winter months approach, here are a few of the books I'll be ... View Post
Books to Devour
During this summer's vacation, I noticed I had selected a number of food-centric books, which I promptly (and appropriately) devoured. More, by the way, on the vacation food in a forthcoming post. Anyway, being an avid reader, it also occurred to me that some of my favorite books are rather food focused. It seemed appropriate to begin (for others to finish) a foodie book list. That, of course, got me thinking about foodie films, so that will be forthcoming as well. As an aside, check ... View Post
