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Serious Reads: A Tiger in the Kitchen, by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Journalist Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan spent much of her young adulthood not knowing how to cook. The story of how she embraced her Singaporean heritage and traveled to her home country in search of her delicious memories is detailed in A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family.Serious Reads: Fannie's Last Supper, by Chris Kimball
Victorian-era cuisine is a far cry from anything on today's American dinner tables. Food in the mid-1800s was of limited variety, took a long while to prepare, and was occasionally truly revolting by modern standards. However, much can also be learned through studying and reproducing the cuisine and techniques of the time. Cook's Illustrated founder and editor Chris Kimball wanted to celebrate the food of Fannie Farmer, whose 1896 cookbook has been revered for over a century. He set out to re-create a twelve-course Victorian feast in his Boston home, for eleven special guests, using primitive equipment and only recipes of the time. His two years of research, recipe testing, and eventual victorious meal are recounted in Fannie's Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook.Serious Reads: Life, on the Line, by Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas
Few chefs have caught the media's attention as powerfully as Grant Achatz, chef/owner of Alinea restaurant in Chicago. His food is inventive and constantly surprising, and Alinea was titled the Best Restaurant in North America by Gourmet in 2006, the seventh best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine in 2010, and Achatz received the James Beard award for Outstanding Chef in 2008—all before he hit 40. But the onslaught of accolades became near-irrelevant when, in 2007, Achatz was diagnosed with stage-four squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth.Serious Reads: 'Ravenous,' by Dayna Macy
Most of us serious eaters have a strong passion for food. But a love for food doesn't always manifest itself in healthy ways. As writer Dayna Macy recounts in her memoir, Ravenous: A Food Lover's Journey from Obsession to Freedom, eating can easily become inextricably linked with seeking comfort, or respite from difficult emotions. Macy brings us into her struggle with overeating through the lens of childhood memories, and incorporates interesting coping mechanisms to attempt to achieve healthy habits.The Food Lab's Required Reading
Find out which book made Kenji decide to lock his brand-new, never-been-field-tested architecture degree in the vault immediately after college to take a minimum-wage job flipping pizzas and mopping floors—and all the other inspiring books and blogs along the way.Serious Reads: We Have Met the Enemy, by Daniel Akst
Anyone who pays half a wink of attention to the news these days is well aware that the U.S. is facing an obesity crisis. And this crisis is quickly becoming a global problem, with nearly a billion unhealthily heavy people worldwide. So how can we attempt to revert our behaviors and keep our collective weight in check? Well, Daniel Akst shines some light on the struggle between temptation and self-restriction in his new book, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess.Serious Reads: The Dirty Life, by Kristin Kimball
Once upon a time, Kristin Kimball was a freelance writer living the young person's lifestyle in New York: crappy apartment, lots of caffeine, and an oven used for sweater storage. Then one weekend she was sent to do a profile of a farmer in Pennsylvania. Mark lived in a trailer and worked the surrounded land with boundless energy—he was at once challenging, spontaneous, and overwhelmingly charming. The two began dating, in a whirlwind courtship that led to Mark proposing a move to New Paltz, New York. The two would start a farm. At times I found myself so moved by Kimball's narrative, I had to put the book down.Serious Reads: America the Edible, by Adam Richman
All Travel Channel junkies are familiar with the big grin and bigger appetite of television host Adam Richman. On Man v. Food, the actor-turned-TV-star takes on food challenges across the country. There's nothing too spicy, too sweet, too enormous for Richman's adventurous tastes. In a new book, America the Edible: My Hungry History, from Sea to Dining Sea, he tracks decades of his own food travels across the United States, peppering his tales with recipes and photos.Serious Reads: An Apple a Day, by Joe Schwarcz
In his book An Apple a Day: The Myths, Misconceptions, and Truths about the Food We Eat, Schwarcz examines the science and fallacy behind most of the foods and additives that allegedly improve or ruin our diets.Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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