Looking for a unique, fun gift idea for someone in your life? Well, if that person likes to cook, and rock and/or roll, look no further. As soon as I heard it existed, I bought a copy of I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the Kitchen With Your Favorite Bands by Kara Zuaro for my

To a foodie, a good food scene in a book is better than a good sex scene or car chase or whatever else. These are eight books (no cookbooks allowed) that give good food. 1.Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Okay, this one’s a big of a ‘gimme’. The whole book’s about food, after

Real Food For Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, And Baby's First Food by Nina Planck 288 pages Health/Food, Nutrition Bloomsbury USA (March 31, 2009) Nina Planck is an amazing food activist who believes in making good choices about eating. Her previous book Real Food gets rave reviews everywhere. This is a follow up, for those who are trying to get pregnant, those who are p...

The Guardian asked a group of food lovers and food writers about the best food books of the last decade.One title they all mentioned:McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture by Harold McGeeA greatly expanded edition of his earlier On Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Fuchsia Dunlop picked On Food and Cooking out as "one of the essential books in any cook's

Alton Brown has been hosting his popular "Good Eats" show on the Food Network for 10 years now. He combines genuine goofiness with educated enthusiasm for food. He's hosted other TV shows, too, and written books before. Now "Good Eats:...

We have a salt fetish, Adam Gopnik writes this week, because we want to bond with the pro cooks. “Why does my food never taste as good as yours?” I once heard a woman ask...

Families of children with food allergies know that this invisible condition requires constant vigilance. The necessity of keeping these children safe cannot be overstated; however, their emotional well-being is equally important. Food is used in almost every type of celebration, and is often a focal point of these events. Even in day-to-day life, food is everywhere. Children who have food allergie...

(View entire post here) Hi Guys! All the buzz is around the new movie, Food, Inc. and I must say it is out of this world. If you have any doubts about who controls the food you eat or any thoughts that the ‘health food nuts' you know are conspiracy loons, this will open your eyes. According to the research and facts presented in this film, unless you are eating whole, unprocessed, organi...

The F2F book group is at my house tonight, and since we're discussing Garden Spells, I thought I would make some food from the book: Yum. Even if no one comes, I'll have a good time. :)

(View entire post here) I think I may have figured out why Americans do not make better food choices. I think people are completely confused. Heck, I get confused and I work in food, study food and research the effects of food on health. I am considered an expert (whatever that means...) and if I get confused, I can only imagine what the rest of the country...who just wants to live their lives and...