A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain: expletive-laden remarks from the leading member of the Brat Pack of Celebrity Chefs
Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser: entertaining read about the history of basic ingredients in our kitchens
My Favourite Food Writers
Marion Cunningham: She is the unsung heroine of the classic cookbook compendium. I love her bullet-proof recipes, I love that her Fanny Famer Cookbook plays a distant second fiddle to The Joy of Cooking, I love that she tells stories about the recipes she shares.
Martha Stewart: Could anyone be more villified than Martha? Say what you will, but Martha's recipes will never fail you. And when you're feeling blue, the little fantasies she spins for you around each recipe is surely as good as making and eating the food itself.
Nigella Lawson: What can I say about Nigella? She above all others reflects my relationship to food and inspires me when no one and nothing else does or can. Like Nigella, food to me is so much more than sustenance; mostly it's family ties.
Rick Bayless: if you truly want to learn Mexican cuisine in spite of being gringo, why waste time with anyone else? Nothing annoys me more than random adaptations of cuisines. Bayless gives you the authenticity to serve as a baseline from which you can adapt as your resources permit.
I'm a marketing junkie, I'm a foodie, and I'm a scuba diving addict...not necessarily in that order.
The common denominator: passion. It's what keeps my world going. When the going gets tough, it's my passion for what I'm doing that helps me dig deeper. My one guiding light in life is always to be involved only in what fulfils me.
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