Atala and Patterson
Alex Atala and Daniel Patterson were being photographed by a two person crew when I encountered...
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Tag: The Cookbook Store
Pollan Cooks
‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants’ wrote Michael Pollan two books ago in In...
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Fall Cookbooks and Appearances
Big things are happening at The Cookbook Store this fall book season. New recipe collections and...
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May 2012 Cookbook Round-Up with Alison Fryer
The Cookbook Store’s Alison Fryer gives GFR the goods on this season’s hottest new food books this season.
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Gabrielle Hamilton Spills Blood, Butter and Bones
by Malcolm Jolley I saw Gabrielle Hamilton suck a bone. Seriously: from a lamb for its marrow in a...
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Nathan Myhrvold on Making Pea Butter with a Centrifuge
The other week Nathan Myhrvold, undisputed polymath and co-author of the contemporary classic that is Modernist Cuisine, was in Toronto for a special lecture organised by The Cookbook Store’s Alison Fryer.
Good Food Revolution were there to observe the proceedings and then share with you Myhrvold’s take on making Pea Butter and Broth with the help of a centrifuge. Amazing stuff!
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New Cookbooks with Alison Fryer – November 2011
Alison Fryer returns with a Cookbook Store round-up of new and notable cookbooks. This is an abbreviated version of a “40 Cookbooks in 40 Minutes” event Fryer and colleague Jennifer Grange will present live at the store on Monday, November 14.
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Lidia Bastianich Interview
I asked Lidia Bastianich, what piece of advice she would give to a young restaurateur just starting out. The answer was as surprising as it seemed solid.
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Meet Lidia Bastianich at All The Best
Meet Italian food legend Lidia Bastianich, August 26 at All The Best Fine Foods. Try some of Lidia’s recipes courtesy of All The Best, taste some of her family’s wines courtesy of The Vine and peruse her bestselling cookbooks courtesy of the Cookbook Store.
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Alison Fryer on New and Classic Canning Books at The Cookbook Store
Alison Fryer pulled a few books off the shelves for me recently at The Cookbook Store (a Certified Good Food Fighter). What did they all have in common? They were about canning, or preserving summer foods for winter.
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Modernist Cuisine: A Demo with Chef John Placko
Last week The Cookbook store hosted a fascinating two hour hands-on workshop at Toronto’s Nella Cucina. The demonstration was presented by Chef John Placko, Culinary Director for MapleLeaf Foods, and covered techniques detailed in Nathan Myhrvold’s six volume Modernist Cuisine. Good Food Revolution were hiding in the audience (comprised of enthusiastic Toronto foodsters and a smattering of Hogtown’s top Chefs) to capture the proceedings.
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Big Bowl of Love’s Cristina Ferrare Interview
GFR’s Jamie Drummond captured this video interview of ‘Big Bowl of Love’ author, and Oprah Winfrey Network star, Cristina Ferrare by Alison Fryer at Toronto’s esteemed Cookbook Store
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