HEALTH
By Andrea K. Walker | December 28, 2011
Southern chef Paula Deen makes no apologies for her butter-filled unhealthy recipes. So it's no surprise that her cookbook tops the list of worst of the year in terms of health in a report by the Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine. The group, that promotes healthy foods and eating, said Deen's and other unhealthy cookbooks encourage Americans to fill up on high-fat, meat-heavy meals. Jamie Oliver, the chef known for his aggressive campaign to make school lunches healthier, is also listed as one of the worst offenders.
NEWS
By TaNoah V. Sterling and TaNoah V. Sterling,Sun Staff Writer | February 2, 1995
Mention ". . . not by bread alone," the cookbook compiled by members of Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Severna Park, and Marcia Magette might lick her lips and think of dirt worms.That's because her recipe for adding gummy worms to dirt cake -- a mixture of chocolate cookies, cream cheese and pudding served, appropriately, in a flower pot -- is one of about 700 recipes featured in the book.". . . not by bread alone" has sold about 550 copies, enough to pay for its printing. But the Woods kitchen committee hopes to raise $5,400 for the church by selling the remaining 450 copies at $12 each.
FEATURES
By Rob Kasper | November 9, 1997
IF YOU KNOW a "Muffie," if you just adore dainty sandwiches with crusts removed, and if you have a sense of humor, then you will enjoy "The WASP Cookbook" (Warner Treasures, 1997, $12.95)The 29-year-old author, Alexandra "Dabber" Wentworth -- tall, lanky and blonde -- gives, in the first page of the book, the dictionary definition of WASP: "White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, the conservative, wealthy and privileged class that formerly dominated U.S. society."In conversation she simply calls WASPs "my people."
FEATURES
By Irene Sax and Irene Sax,Newsday Los Angeles Times Syndicate | April 25, 1993
NEW YORK -- Claudia Roden was calling.The English food writer had heard about Dalia Carmel's cookbooks in Israel and had gotten her phone number at a food conference in Boston. Now she was in New York and wanted to come over and look through the books."You see?" said Ms. Carmel, smiling. "This happens all the time."Tall, handsome, with short gray hair and a soft Israeli accent, Ms. Carmel is living out every collector's dream. The passion for buying cookbooks that was for many years "my private disease, my mishegoss [craziness]"
NEWS
By Lisa Breslin and Lisa Breslin,SPECIAL TO THE SUN | January 14, 2002
THE CARROLL SPRINGS School community has created a cookbook that satisfies the heart and soul as well as discerning tastes. Its 96 pages contain recipes for appetizers, breads, casseroles, desserts, main dishes, salads and soups. Each page also has a dash of humor, and each recipe offers a unique look into the students' world. Carroll Springs is a special education school with 33 students and a staff of multidisciplined teachers and specialists. Communication throughout the school often is guided by pictures, so each recipe in the cookbook offers pictures of key ingredients.
FEATURES
By Lynn Williams | December 22, 1991
For some people, cooking is murder.From the leg of lamb used as a murder weapon to the traces of arsenic in the elderberry wine, food has often played a role in literary mayhem. So when a group of mystery writers collaborates on a cookbook, you'd better believe their prose has little in common with Betty Crocker's.Poring through "Cooking With Malice Domestic," a cookbook devised by Jean and Ron McMillen, owners of Mystery Bookshop: Bethesda, readers will come across such evocative directions as "beat to death," "flay and dismember half a small chicken" and "crack those eggs -- show no mercy."