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Book it: The Cookbook Conference Comes to the Roger Smith on Feb 9

Comment | January 23, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Lou Rouse

On February 9 to 11, the Roger Smith Hotel will host the Cookbook Conference, a three day intensive series of panels and workshops for publishers, writers, editors, agents, researchers and readers. The goal isn’t just practical advice–how to pitch, position and test a cookbook, say–but also to think deeply about the history and future of a genre that most of those who read this site take very, very seriously. In our opinion, cookbooks cover as diverse a world as fiction, and can be just as transporting. (Not to mention handy at times.)

That Jean-Georges Family Mac and Cheese You Were Reading About? Here’s the Recipe

1 comment | January 19, 2012 | By Rachel Wharton

Enough of you have asked about the incredible macaroni and cheese (five kinds of the latter) our editor in chief was talking about on Tuesday that we figured we should score you the recipe. It’s from Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes, which chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten published just last fall. Turns out it’s actually a dish created by his wife, Marja, who has her own TV show and cookbook out called The Kimchi Chronicles (she’s also Korean). Writes Vongerichten in the headnote: “This is one of the most requested dishes in my home, especially when we have children over.

Butter, Milk, Half & Half, Heavy Cream, Eggs and 5 Kinds of Cheese (aka Why This Mac & Cheese is So Good)

3 comments so far | January 17, 2012 | By Gabrielle Langholtz

Not only does this recipe call for butter, milk, half-and-half, and heavy cream, it of course deploys plenty of cheese—three types of cheddar plus Monterey Jack. But the crowning glory is, get this, cream cheese. After throwing everything else together—oops I mean assembling the layers—you dot the top with little blobs of cream cheese, which, once baked, become the best part of the dish. The recipe calls for four ounces, but I just might double that next time.

Gopnik on Gastronomy

Comment | December 2, 2011 | By Matt Sartwell

Adam Gopnik lies awake at night on the Upper East Side and reads cookbooks.

Joanne Hendricks in her cookbook store on Greenwich Street.

For Culinary Bookworms, a Tiny Wonderland Hidden on Greenwich Street

1 comment | October 16, 2011 | By Amy Zavatto | Photographs by Lou Rouse

Behind a Greenwich Street door whose plaque simply reads “Cookbooks.”

Something seem familiar? That's cause this pizza pie was shot by our awesome photo editor Michael Harlan Turkell.

Listen Up: Where To Find the Best Bagels, Pierogies and Bukharian Breads

Comment | July 23, 2010 | By Rachel Wharton

This week on our Heritage Radio Network internet radio show we hit up Brooklyn author Sherri Eisenberg for her super secrets to the borough of bagels and righteous pizza pies and rooftop farms. (And Edible Brooklyn.)
She spent eight months…

Tastes Like Old Times

1 comment | June 29, 2010 | By Emily Warren

If the Glockners, the Moores, the Gumpertzes, the Rogarshevskys and the Baldizzis shared one thing in common besides their address—all lived at 97 Orchard Street between the 1860s and the end of World War II—it’s that they cooked.

Marcus’s Melting-Pot Muse

Comment | March 5, 2010 | By Rachel Wharton | Photographs by Francine Daveta

Ethiopian-born, Sweden-raised New Yorker Marcus Samuelsson gives us the scoop on his latest cookbook, New American Table.