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Archive for January, 2010
cover models and photo-worthy foods: what it takes to shoot a book cover
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
on taste and texture
Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Last October I did one of my “eating the town” missions in NYC with Chef Annette Tomei. (You can read about our adventures in my blog, The Aphrodisiac Queen.) I was inspired from this trip by the forward thinking of one particular chef, Brad Farmerie. No, his cuisine wasn’t “molecular” in its modern interpretation but... »
stove top sous vide – a water wing on the high seas of haute cuisine
Friday, January 8th, 2010
JC and I both had a heavy week of recipe testing. Between us, I believe we tried 15 recipes and finalized about 8 of those. Great progress! But we are at the crunch time. (And I am feeling the pressure!) Sometimes my ideas for recipes are weird. This week, one of my more strange thoughts... »
authors who color outside the lines
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Working on this book, I am in an interesting position (wearing hats of both author and publisher). So when the author side of me starts generating content that doesn’t slide perfectly into the book outline, my publisher side has to decide where it will go. In this case, it seemed most appropriate to add... »