How to Eat Weekends
Preparing a Moroccan soup for The Chew
by Lynne Rossetto Kasper Mario Batali brought me back to New York recently to appear on his new show, The Chew. No one hosts like Batali; he rolls out the carpet and hands you over to the audience. He is...
What makes a good cook
Posted by Sally Swift We're launching a series on the show called The Key 3. It's conversations with good cooks (not just professional chefs) about the three recipes they think every cook should know. Recipes they feel will serve all...
Vampire Turkey
Posted by Sally Swift What do you say to someone who optimistically decides to develop a recipe with 80 cloves of garlic? I mean, is there ever enough garlic? Well, surprisingly, the answer turns out to be yes. As we...
Author on Tour "Wines and Dines"
Posted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper A notebook of sorts came out of the book tour Sally and I did. Over the coming weeks, anything that makes sense from the scribbles I made will show up here. This is the...
My Recipe For the Weekend - Nearly Holy Meatballs
Posted by Sally Swift I'm now far enough away from the bloody book to actually crack it open again, because I'm hungry and craving those meatballs. Lynne's meatballs. Her Sweet-Sour Chicken Meatballs with Candied Lemon Peel, to be exact. I...
Vietnamese Caramel
Posted by Sally Swift One of the most interesting things I learned writing How to Eat Weekends was about the Vietnamese tradition of cooking with caramel sauce. It's an unusual and delicious technique, considered by many to be a cornerstone...
"Look Each Person in the Eye, Dearie"
Posted by Lynne Rossetto Kasper Originally this post was going to be something completely different. Then Sally wrote Give an Author a Dirty Book. Aside from being touched and wanting her to know how she connects when she doesn't even...
Tasteless Tomatoes
Posted by Sally Swift I've been thinking a lot this week about something we wrote about in How To Eat Weekends: the idea of doctoring up tasteless tomatoes. With tomato season essentially over for much of the country and my...
The Cover Story
by Lynne Rossetto Kasper Our new book, How to Eat Weekends, did not have a cover. It did have a print deadline creeping up. You'd think with more than 100 recipes and 24 shots by one of the best photographers...
Give an Author a Dirty Book
by Sally Swift Despite having done a book tour before, I'm still out of sorts with the book signing part. There is something slightly embarrassing about it for me that I can't quite put my finger on. Part of it...
