An Interview with Chef Eric Arrouze Chef Eric Arrouze has over 30 years of experience in the kitchen working at world class restaurants in both France and Canada and he is now teaching cooking classes to future chefs as well as home cooking enthusiasts. One of his latest culinary adventures is offering tours “from market […]
House of Cheese – A Guide To Wedges, Recipes, and Pairing“Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese: A Guide to Wedges, Recipes and Pairings” is one of those wonderful books you can keep on your bedside table, kitchen counter or bring to your favorite cheese shop and flip through again and again, each time coming away […]
A Look at Ripe – A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables A good friend of ours from Utah just arrived for a visit and some business in Philadelphia. She came bearing gifts including this new cookbook by food writer Cheryl Sternman Rule and food photographer Paulette Philpot called Ripe:A Fresh, Colorful Approach to […]
A Food Lover’s Book of Days I love going to garage sales and town fairs to find old cookbooks at a fraction of the cost when new. I was at one this summer where they were selling as many books as you could fit into a cardboard box for 5 bucks. Now that’s a deal. […]
Cooks Illustrated’s The Science of Good Cooking Master 50 simple concepts to enjoy a lifetime of success in the kitchen. Despite the saying about the cat, curiosity is what sets humans apart from other mammals. A hundred years ago, most cooks were working with a limited repertoire of recipes and ingredients, and they had plenty […]
At this time, The Great Potato Recipes Cookbook is not for sale. We are hoping to get it back up in the near future. Discover the secrets to preparing great potato recipes at home with the help of the Reluctant Gourmet & Chef David Nelson We’ll Show You the Best Way to Bake, Fry, Roast, […]
Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute If you ever thought of going to cooking school at the Culinary Institute of America or any cooking school for that matter, you want to read Michael Ruhlman’s Making of a Chef – now available at Amazon.com. This book is so well written, it puts you right into the […]
Top Reasons Why eCookbooks Are Great to Own: Convenience – Just browse through the recipes, click and print! Work off of only one sheet of paper in the kitchen. Variety – Where, except in a computer, would you be able to store 100,000 recipes in all sorts of cookbooks? Storage – You can store approximately […]
Who Wouldn’t Love 125 Simple and Delicious Italian Recipes? It’s no wonder this is one of the best selling cookbooks on the market today. Besides Giada’s popular cooking show, Everyday Italian, on Food Network, this is a well thought out, easy to follow, well written cookbook. It’s great to find a cookbook that is written […]
Learn the secrets to some of the most popular restaurants Recipes from The Cheesecake Factory, KFC, Red Lobster, The Olive Garden, Hard Rock Cafe plus many, many more! With two young children under the age of 10, we often go out to many of the restaurants mentioned in this book and I’m sure I have […]
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How to Grill Your Turkey on a Gas Grill
Something Different – Grilling Your Turkey I wanted to share with you a novel way we cooked our turkey one year while we were still living in Park City, Utah. We grilled it on the barbecue. Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves, “RG, get real. We’ve been grilling our bird for […]
Turkey Buying and Cooking Tips With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy talking turkey including some tips on choosing a bird and how to cook it. You would think cooking a turkey is not that big a deal but looking at all the articles in the current November issues of cooking […]
Moist Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
How To Roast A Perfectly Moist Turkey A whole turkey, perfectly cooked, juicy in thigh and breast and richly caramelized all over is a thing of beauty, but it is, indeed a rare bird. Turkeys are large, they have a big hole inside them. They are thick in some places and thinner in others. They […]
