Topic “Cookbooks”

By Valerie Phillips (Standard-Examiner)

When Michelle Snow of Clinton writes a cookbook, it’s never just a collection of recipes. You also get some money-saving strategies for efficiently getting those recipes on the table.

Among her several cookbooks are a food storage system, “It’s In the Bag,” and the budget-stretching “The Queen of Common Cents.”

Now she’s back with...

By Janet K. Keeler (Tampa Bay Times)

It’s not often that a cookbook makes you blush. But “Fifty Shades of Chicken” (Clarkson Potter, $19.99), with the steamy prose of a romance novel and photos of a ripped stud sprinkled throughout, turns up the heat in an altogether different way.

“Chicken thighs, stirred up and fried hard”? Forget food porn. We’re talking poultry porn,...

By Mary Constantine (Scripps Howard News Service)

As daylight saving time ends Nov. 4 and daylight hours get shorter, preparing supper becomes more of a challenge. You’ve got less time before darkness falls and your body begins focusing on bedtime.

That’s where Southern Living’s “Fix it & Freeze it, Heat it & Eat it” (Oxmoor House, $19.95) comes into play. This 320-page...

By Jackie Burrell (San Jose Mercury New)

The goal behind Kim Laidlaw’s book, Williams-Sonoma’s “Home Baked Comfort” (Weldon Owen, $34.95, 224 pages), was simplicity and seduction.

The photographs, by Eric Wolfinger, woo the reader with gooey cinnamon rolls, whoopie pies and bacon and egg breakfast tarts, while Laidlaw’s recipes -- simple, straightforward and dotted with...

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz (Chicago Tribune (MCT))

The queen of the 30-minute meal would like to direct attention to her buns.

Here we have a Sicilian-style tuna burger, with tomatoes and capers on ciabatta. A portobello mushroom burger with spinach pesto. A decadent French-onion-dip beef burger, stacked with potato chips and pickles, that is, in a word, yum-o.

In “The Book of...