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The judge on “The Great British Baking Show,” whose new book is “Bliss on Toast,” recommends “The Joy of Cooking” along with M.F.K. Fisher and Elizabeth David: “Both the latter are a real pleasure to ...

Well, here we are at the end of another year. And what a year it’s been. It's as if the publishers and cookbook writers looked into the proverbial crystal ball and knew this would be a year we would ...

The first modern cookbook was penned not by a chef, but by a poet. Before Eliza Acton published Modern Cookery for Private Families in 1845, she was known for crafting lush, sentimental verse. Her ...

It was early in 1985, during the first warm, blossoming weeks of spring in San Francisco, when I became hellbent on getting my old job back. Until the previous fall, I had been a cook at Greens, a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Lena Richard, an African American chef, entrepreneur, and educator, built a dynamic culinary career in the segregated ...