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So, my video worked and I managed to snare one of the six spots in Penny de los Santos' three-day food photography weekend. You can watch along for free this weekend as its streams live, or purchase the full three-day course for a discount over the weekend. Update on Saturday … [Read more...] about Creative Live workshop with Penny de los Santos

Here's an intriguing story by Justin Schwartz that should be required reading for anyone who has ever thought of publishing a cookbook someday, and especially insightful for food bloggers. … [Read more...] about When is a cookbook deal too good to be true?

Some books are just a great idea. In the case of The Food Substitutions Bible (Second Edition) author David Joachim executes that idea to a deeply useful level. At its heart, it’s an A-Z guide of everything you realize that you’re out of in the process of making a recipe, or the … [Read more...] about The Food Substitutions Bible

It’s pretty tough to beat The Joy of Cooking as a basic reference when it comes to American cooking. My mother gave me my first copy as a 28th birthday present. I was mortified at the time; she gave it to all of my other siblings as a wedding present. Yet, that edition still … [Read more...] about The Joy of Cooking

In these tough economic times, who isn’t interested in slashing their food bill? The easiest way, it turns out, is to avoid wasting food. In American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It) by Jonathan Bloom looks inside the … [Read more...] about American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half Its Food