cookiesinheaven

and she's throwing a publication party on May 22!

Labels: Cookbooks, Edible Santa Barbara, Pascale Beale, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Winery

Labels: Books, Cookbooks, Junior League, Planned Parenthood, Recipes, Santa Barbara

Labels: Books, Cookbooks, Earl Warren Showgrounds, Planned Parenthood, Santa Barbara

Labels: Brothers Restaurant, Cookbooks, Los Olivos, Mattei's Tavern, Santa Ynez

Labels: Cookbooks, Edible Communities, Edible Institute, Edible Nation, Montecito

Since the beginning of Brothers Restaurant in 1996, Matt and Jeff Nichols have cooked for over a half million people and have had thousands of requests for their recipes. Now they share their passion and over 145 recipes with those who enjoy cooking at home with a collection of the Nichols’ guests’ favorite dishes: Jalapeño Cornbread, Tuna Tartar with Avocado & Spicy Yuzu Vinaigrette, Heirloom Tomato and Burrata Salad, Puree of Sweet Corn Soup with Maine Lobster, Morel Mushroom and English Pea Risotto, Horseradish-Crusted Irish Salmon, Grilled Iowa Pork Rib Chop with Apple Sauce & Honey Butter, Grilled Filet of Prime Beef with Stilton Cheese & Port Wine Sauce, Strawberry Shortcake, and Mud Pie with Chocolate & Caramel Sauces, to name just a few.

The Nichols brothers have also incorporated “Bro Notes” to help give home cooks insight and culinary tricks of the trade along with recipe variations. The book includes the history of their journey in building their own restaurant, the “Brothers Philosophy,” an overview of living life in Santa Barbara Wine Country, and Seasonal Menus. - BusinessWire

Labels: Cookbooks, Los Olivos, Mattei's Tavern, Restaurant, Santa Barbara County

Labels: Cookbooks, For Sale, library, Montecito

Labels: Books, Cookbooks, Earl Warren Showgrounds, sale

People visit retreats for many reasons, seeking guidance, rest or refuge from a hectic life. Whatever it is they are hungering for, all of the guests at the Immaculate Heart Center for Spiritual Renewal in Montecito at least go away well-fed, thanks to the highly lauded meals of Teresa Fanucchi.

Her recipes, and the dramatic history of the group that employs her, the Los Angeles-based Immaculate Heart Community, inspired "A Place at the Table," a cookbook published last year by Elevated Lab Press. This spiral-bound gem offers seasonal meal plans and some 90 recipes, many based on vegetables, fruit and herbs from the gardens and orchards on the property.

...Since her days as a holistic culinary student at Bauman College in Northern California, Fanucchi has been interested in what she calls the spirituality of cooking. She is mindful of the labor and energy involved in growing ingredients before they reach her hands: "I try to bring an awareness and a respect for that in my cooking."

....The daughter of a pistachio farmer, Fanucchi, 41, grew up in Bakersfield, and meals often came from the family gardens. You could say she has returned to her roots, with produce growing just steps away from her current work kitchen.

"It's really lovely. When it's that close and that fresh, there's such a beauty in the simplicity of the food," she says.

A case in point is her watermelon salad, where three ingredients — olive oil, lime juice and fresh mint — enliven the fruit in a surprising way. - Latte Times

You can purchase "A Place at the Table" for $35 at www.immaculateheartcenter.org/

Labels: Chef, Cookbooks, local, Montecito, Spirituality

Famed New Orleans chef and cook book author Susan Spicer has filed a class action lawsuit against British Petroleum, Halliburton, and Transocean, Ltd. Entered in New Orleans Federal Court, the suit asks for both compensatory and punitive damages - as yet unspecified -- for the harm that has resulted and will result due to the oil spill at BP's Deepwater Horizon undersea well, which occurred on April 20.

As quoted by the New Orleans Times-Picayune on its nola.com blog, the suit says "The massive oil slick created by the continuing discharge of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico has caused or will cause injuries and damages to the Class to the extent that the seafood industry will be closed and the sustainable natural resource of the fishery will be greatly harmed and/or destroyed. Simply put, the oil slick and continuing discharge of crude oil is an ecological and economic disaster for Plaintiff." - Village Voice and NOLA.com

Labels: celebrity chefs, Cookbooks, Lawsuit, New Orleans

Labels: Cat Cora, Cookbooks, Foodies, Iron Chef, Santa Barbara

Labels: Classes, Cookbooks, cooking classes

Labels: Books, Chaucer's, Cookbooks

My Nepenthe weaves together stories and tales about the famous California restaurant perched on the majestic cliffs of Big Sur. It celebrates the magic and history of place through food and the Fassett family who started Nepenthe.

(Mark your calendars for a book signing with the Author, Romney Steele - December 7, 2009 @ 7:00)

"My New Orleans" will change the way you look at New Orleans cooking and the way you see World-famous chef John Besh. It's 16 chapters of culture, history, essay and insight, and pure goodness. Besh tells us the story of his New Orleans by the season and by the dish. Archival, four-color, location photography along with ingredient information make the Big Easy easy to tackle in home kitchens. Cooks will salivate over the 200 recipes that honor and celebrate everything New Orleans.

..A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Cafe Reconcile, a New Orleans-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing at-risk youth an opportunity to learn life and interpersonal skills, and operational training for successful entry into the hospitality and restaurant industries.

Crescent City Farmers' Market Cookbook

Poppy Tooker tells the story of the Crescent City Farmers Market through her distinctly New Orleans voice as one of a local food preservationist, Slow Food New Orleans founder, and longtime market collaborator. With a market tradition dating back to the late 1600s, the story of the rise and decline of New Orleansa city markets prior to the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market is both educational and entertaining. Tooker recalls whimsical and wacky market events with both prose and archival photography.

Ad Hoc at Home

In the book every home cook has been waiting for, the revered Thomas Keller turns his imagination to the American comfort foods closest to his heart—flaky biscuits, chicken pot pies, New England clam bakes, and cherry pies so delicious and redolent of childhood that they give Proust's madeleines a run for their money. Keller, whose restaurants The French Laundry in Yountville, California, and Per Se in New York have revolutionized American haute cuisine, is equally adept at turning out simpler fare.

Melissa Gray is National Public Radio's Cake Lady. Every Monday she brings a cake to the office for her colleagues at NPR to enjoy. Hundreds of Mondays (and cakes) later, Melissa has lots of cake-making tips to share. With more than 50 recipes for the cakes that have been dreamed of and drooled over for a lifetime. (Listen to the NPR story about the book...here.)

You might be happy when you walk into a store and see a potential Christmas gift at a deep discount. But the American Booksellers Association is not, accusing three giant retailers of "predatory pricing." They've asked the Justice Department to investigate.

The group fears these "book wars" could close the book on many small, independent stores, - CBS News

Labels: Big Sur, Books, cakes, Chaucer's, Cookbooks, New Orleans, NPR

Labels: Books, Cookbooks, Montecito, sale, Trader Joe's

Labels: Cookbooks, Oregon, Recipes, San Diego, San Francisco

Firefighters can handle the heat both on the job and in the kitchen. Now you can serve up some of the same crowd-pleasing recipes that have quelled firefighters' appetites for generations. By purchasing the new Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund California Firehouse Cookbook, you'll get dozens of firehouse favorites - while also benefiting these local heroes and their families.

Created by the Fund and Jim Beam(R) - the world's No. 1-selling Bourbon - the cookbook is available for purchase now at participating retail locations across California. Jim Beam(R) will donate $9.99 from the sale of each cookbook to the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund. Jim Beam(R) will make a minimum donation of $25,000.

Firehouse Cookbook recipes range from "Geezer Salad" and "Jim Beam and Cola Barbequed Pork Ribs" to "Spicy Firehouse Chili" and "Fast Truck Chicken," served with a side of stories about the dishes. Renowned chef Wolfgang Puck also shows his support by sharing his barbecued pork ribs with spicy-sweet rub. Sherry Yard, Puck's executive pastry chef and a member of a firefighting family, contributed several recipes including one for warm chocolate truffle cakes.

...The Fund provides equipment to underfunded fire stations, as well as scholarships and medical services to families of active, retired and deceased firefighters. The organization was established in memory of Chief Terry Farrell, who perished in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center along with 342 of his firefighter brethren. - PRNewswire/Reuters and FDNN

Labels: Cookbooks, fire, firefighters, fundraising

Sheila Lukins, who co-wrote "The Silver Palate" cookbooks and who was co-owner of the influential Upper West Side food shop of the same name, died Sunday at the age of 66. She'd been diagnosed with brain cancer three months ago. - Epicurious.

Labels: celebrity chefs, Chef, Cookbooks, Passings

Labels: Cookbooks, Fabio, Fabio Viviani, Santa Barbara

Well....on August 6th at Borders Books out in Goleta, he will be there signing his new cookbook. - 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Labels: Books, Cookbooks, Fabio, Fabio Viviani, Goleta, Top Chef