Feel a bit low because the summer is over? Rain slamming against the window, dark and cold outside, plants in the garden withering away? Just turn to this little book by Susan Branch and you’re feelings about fall will change forever!

The Silver Spoon (Il Cucchiaio d’argento) is the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic, selling over one million copies in eight editions. Now it has been translated in English. It containes all the Italian recipes you will ever need for the rest of your life. [...]

Our first Thai green curry. We went to Amsterdam and found all the ingredients we needed in one little toko, including the coriander with the roots still on, thai basil, shrimp paste, kaffir lime, fish sauce, lemon grass, galangal and the kaffir lime leaves. It was more than finger licking delicious. We used the recipe [...]

What a perfect day it is when you can lie in your hammock in the sun, reading “French country cooking” by Elizabeth David. Soft violins on your iPod. Dreaming of fields of lavender and apricot pies. Purple Pictures of the Provence where the food is simple and fresh and delicious. Elizabeth David new this long [...]

I love American books about baking pies and cookies. You get images of bake sales and lovely ladies in aprons making delicious cakes with summer berries. I don’t know if this is a movie image or maybe and hopefully reality for American people. But it’s the feeling I get when I leave through ‘Baking from [...]