Food Network star. Cookbook author. Cat lover. Bobby Flay is many things – and he counts himself lucky for all the opportunities he’s been granted over the years – but “the restaurants are always the most important thing to me,” he said on a recent video call from his home in New York City. He […]
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The year’s best vegan cookbooks
Eight books to nourish and sustain you.
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With these books, give the gift of health (your own and the planet’s)
Several new cookbooks, a travel guide and two novels make excellent gifts for the vegan, vegetarian or the veg-curious person in your life.
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Four Maine books coming out this fall you shouldn’t miss
Portland bookseller Josh Christie’s recommendations range from food to philosophy to fiction.
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‘The Maine Farm Table Cookbook’ celebrates the state’s many food producers
Kate Shaffer’s newest cookbook also serves as a guidebook.
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Spicy pork and soba noodles deliver sweet, salty and crunchy in one filling dish
Time is a precious commodity, so if someone offers me a shortcut, I’m all ears. That’s one reason I dove into “The Shortcut Cook” by Rosie Reynolds (Hardie Grant, 2021). The other was that I loved “The Kitchen Shelf,” a cookbook she wrote in 2016 with Eve O’Sullivan, which is all about building meals around […]
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People are losing their taste and smell to COVID-19. Now there’s a cookbook to help.
On a Sunday afternoon last March, Gillian Dixon was cooking roast beef for lunch, which would normally fill her home in the United Kingdom with a distinct savory scent. That day, though, something was amiss: “I suddenly thought, ‘I can’t smell the beef,’ ” Dixon, 53, recalled. Her concern mounted when she took a bite […]
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Keep your oven off and appetite going with Portland resident’s new cookbook
Even Mainers can make use of Vanessa Seder’s ‘Eat Cool: Good Food for Hot Days.’
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Bath resident Chris Toy, who has taught Asian cooking for 30 years, tackles a storied Japanese soup
The book, ‘Ramen Made Simple,’ is a primer on both the history and the building blocks of the dish – broth, tare, noodles and toppings.
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Travel-imbued cookbooks offer up culinary journeys
On a gray afternoon in November, I sat down to a meal that evoked Istanbul cafes where just the year before I had feasted at the edge of the sun-streaked Bosporus. Dried sumac speckled a plate of shaved radishes and fennel, and the main course was lamb ragout, ladled over satiny eggplant puree. It was […]