"Food is beautiful. Food is nourishing and delicious and, yes, complicated. However, food should be a joy, not elicit fear." ...

Civil Eats, which I like to think of as a national version of Good Stuff NW (ahem…), has just put out its summer reading list of books a...

Portland has got to have one of the highest per capita populations of published cookbook writers in the country. For a city its size, we ...

Several years ago, so long ago, in fact, that the internet was in its infancy—if the browser names Mosaic and Netscape Navigator ring any...

Two new cookbooks just came out that are perfectly timed to coincide with the peak of the harvest that is starting to flow in from local ...

"Planning, preparing and serving meals is an art which develops through inspiration and thought. It may look difficult to the beginn...

When I was growing up the closest thing to a leafy green vegetable on my dinner plate was iceberg lettuce drowned with our family recipe ...

Hello. My name is Kathleen and I love books. A few years ago I heard someone say that they never traveled without a "flood book....

I've already confessed to being a cookbook addict , with shelves of titles from well-known authors like Diana Kennedy, James Beard, M...

I own a fair number of cookbooks . I've always thought of them as helpful tools and some, like the Time-Life "Foods of the World...

I'm not a natural cook. I can't have a dish at a restaurant and easily parse the ingredients to recreate it at home. If I want to m...