It’s the season of New Year’s resolutions, and as the temperatures drop, what better season is there for spending time in the kitchen honing your cooking and baking skills? Whether you’re sharpening your skills for fun or as part of your career, a valuable resource available to you in your culinary endeavors is your local library. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of libraries is books, and the library offers a wide selection of cookbooks about nearly every subject in the culinary universe. Along with family favorites like the Betty Crocker Cookbook, recipes from Taste of Home and Food and Family, and classics such as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the cookbook world is diverse and can be surprisingly specific. For instance, a book called Sauces teaches readers about which sauces taste the best on which things, and picking up a specific skill can be easy with cookbooks about specialized techniques like preserving, sous vide, or cooking with cast iron. There are also plenty of cookbooks from your favorite TV shows, books by industry specialists, and even some by celebrities. Books with recipes especially for those with diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and autoimmune diseases, and cookbooks for special diets such as keto, gluten free, or vegan are now more widely available than ever before. Furthermore, books like The Science of Cooking and How Baking Works explain the fascinating scientific processes behind cooking and baking, and The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt is…
My friend Robin gave me a starter bag to make Amish Friendship Bread; sweet bread that tastes like a moist cake. For the first five days I opened the gallon sized bag to release the air and then seal it and smash the contents in the bag. On the sixth day, I added a cup each of flour, sugar and milk. Then I sealed the… [Read More]
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We begin the season of soaking up the sun and relaxing with a good book. Here at Swenson Book Development, LLC, I am not the only one who is reading books worth sharing with other readers. Over the coming weeks look here for guest bloggers who will review what they’re reading. There are a half dozen books I find myself reading simultaneously. I look forward… [Read More]
“Attendance at BookExpo America last week, including BlogWorld, was 23,067. Excluding BlogWorld, whose participants were not included in last year’s attendance figures, attendance was 21,664, down just 255, or 1.2%, from 21,919 in 2010. BEA emphasized that this year’s slightly lower number reflected higher standards: the show “strategically vetted more attendee groups to improve the quality of those participating in BEA.” One resulting major change:… [Read More]
Leave it to a creative director from one of the world’s biggest internet marketing companies to creatively call into question many of the old assumptions about book publishing. With his wacky sense of humor, Andrew Kessler opened a Book Store on Hudson Street in New York City to launch his new book, Martian Summer (Pegasus). It’s not a Books Store; it’s a Book Store. Just… [Read More]
Filed Under: Andrew Kessler, HUGE, internet marketing, Martian Summer, Open Road Media, Pegasus, video book trailer, viral
Fresh from the press, my new copy of Risk Rules: How Local Politics Threaten the Local Economy arrived and it is really a study of unintended consequences. Authors Marvin Zonis, Dan Lefkovitz, Sam Wilkin and Joseph Yackley offer a new way to understand the global political economy. Here are seven questions posed about the current state of affairs and the author’s answers. 1) Obviously, there’s… [Read More]