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- This is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie, with everything readers asked for (crispy edges, yes!)
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- Read It & Eat
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James eventually offers Belle her freedom, but Belle rejects it, choosing to stay close to her home and the fellow slave that she loves, Ben. Ben marries another slave, but he and Belle have an ongoing affair. Lavinia is neither a natural member of the big house, nor a slave. Being an indentured servant means that she must uphold her servitude, and she must live in the slave housing though she is white. Because of this, she grows to love the slaves as her own family, coming to see the slave Mama Mae as her mother figure. She also grows close to Martha, who has several miscarriages and loses her young daughter, Sally, during an accident on a swing.
This is the ultimate chocolate chip cookie, with everything readers asked for (crispy edges, yes!)
"Forget Gone with the Wind . . . a story that grabs the reader and demands to be devoured. Wow." Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Kathleen Grissom is now happily rooted in south-side Virginia. She is the New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House, Glory Over Everything, and Crow Mary.
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The first cookbook from Rintaro is by all means a tome. More than 70 recipes from the San Francisco izakaya are contextualized through memories and thorough explainers from Sylvan Mishima Brackett, the restaurant’s Kyoto-born, California-raised chef (who also happens to be a Chez Panisse alum). This is a dense yet still approachable dive into the world of Japanese cooking, with primers on dashi, breaking down whole fish for sashimi, coaxing maximum flavor from tofu and eggs, steaming the perfect donabe, and hand-forming fresh udon.
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But it means so much more that isn’t as simply translated. To sit at the sofreh is to take part in a ritual with connotations of community, hospitality, respect and manners. For Nasim Alikhani, chef-owner of Sofreh restaurant in Brooklyn, it’s a celebration of her roots in pre-Revolution Isfahan, Iran, and she writes so poignantly about her love of Persian cuisine. The recipes are a reflection of the cooking she grew up with and dishes she learned about traveling back to Iran from New York. Most importantly, she says, “whenever possible, use these dishes to spark connection and community; for that is at the heart of food for me.” And “if you burn your tahdig on your first go-round, good job! ” Trial and error is essential to deepening your understanding of cooking, and of life.
But Belle is a stronger, more fully fleshed out and consistently motivated character than Lavinia. I wanted more of her voice and less of Lavinia’s. Some of the plot twists depend on characters making false assumptions that seem unlikely. Why does Lavinia jump to the conclusion that the man she truly loves is involved with Belle?
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When the pandemic immediately threatened the livelihood of Asian businesses in New York City, volunteer-run organization Send Chinatown Love sprouted and helped raise funds and awareness. This fall the group self-published its first cookbook, celebrating one of the world’s most beloved Chinatowns as well as Little Indonesia, the melting pot of Flushing and more than 20 other neighborhoods. There are many, and I’ll continue to highlight standouts in this space in the coming months. Here are six favorites that are as immersive and rousing to read as they are to cook from — ideal for last-minute gifts, or as a personal escape in these exhausting times.
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Nancy Silverton is a force of nature, bringing maximum imagination and exacting technique to anything she cooks or bakes. It’s the life-changing cookie that sparked the idea for her latest cookbook. With “The Cookie That Changed My Life,” Silverton takes classic American baked goods — banana bread, scones, twice-baked croissants, granola, cinnamon rolls — and makes the best possible version in the universe. And Mintz, in offering examples of chefs and owners working to reshape the system, makes the point again and again that consumers must be part of the change.
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Last decade, Filipino restaurant cooking finally began to receive long-overdue recognition across the U.S. Accordingly, “Filipinx” is the Filipino cookbook America is finally ready for. “Black Food,” the imprint’s first release, marks an enlightening, exhilarating beginning. When the novel begins, Lavinia is a little girl whose parents are attempting to come to America, but they die aboard James’s ship. Because Lavinia’s parents are unable to pay their fare, James takes Lavinia back to his plantation and puts her in the “kitchen house,” or servant’s quarters for house slaves, as an indentured servant.
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A simple peak-summer dashi-simmered tomato with a sprig of sansho leaf for garnish is stark and beautiful. Sliced sweet potato rounds are gently cooked in a broth punctuated with lemon and gardenia fruit pod. When simmering dashi transforms winter turnips so that they’re translucent and juicy (and then they’re garnished with scallions and yuzu), I’m all in. Kathleen Grissom’s 2010 novel, The Kitchen House, is a work of historical fiction that centers on the happenings at Captain James Pyke’s southern Virginia tobacco plantation, Tall Oaks, beginning in 1791. The two narrative threads follow Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan working at Tall Oaks as an indentured servant, and Belle, the beautiful young daughter of James and his slave.
As other writers, including Food & Wine’s Khushbu Shah, have asserted, it’s time to retire the trope that “the customer is always right” — Mintz outlines why. And if letting go of that notion makes you bristle, this book may have been written expressly for you. “‘Black Food’ is a communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora,” Bryant Terry writes as a preamble to the absorbing anthology with recipes he edited. The book, beautifully photographed and illustrated, overlaps essays, poems and dishes from more than 100 contributors; it’s a collection into which you can disappear for a long afternoon, gripped by one clarion voice after another. 'You must not become too friendly with them,' she said.
Clarissa Wei writes about Taiwanese cuisine from a particularly interesting perspective — as both an Angeleno and a citizen of Taiwan. Her stance as both insider and outsider give agency and voice to the idea that “Taiwanese food isn’t a subset of Chinese food because Taiwan isn’t a part of China,” she writes. Make beef rolls, turkey rice, cucumber salad, noodle soups flecked with garlic chives and studded with shrimp. Let Wei’s pantry notes and step-by-step’s be your guide. The recipes and stories are a tour through the history and culture of Taiwan. Brooklyn restaurant Win Son and its sibling bakery specialize in both Taiwanese American classics and dishes that celebrate the diaspora with a playful bent.
I still remember the first time I tried Monica Lee’s combination soon tofu at Beverly Soon Tofu, which was open for 34 years before it shuttered during the pandemic. It arrived with its crimson broth sputtering and threatening to spill over a weathered jet black ttukbaegi. The tofu was soft and supple and the broth vibrant and spicy. In her new book, Lee tells the story of how to prepare her signature dish of soon tofu chigae.
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