If you love Southern food and hospitality, The Runaway Spoon blogger Perre Coleman Magness’s The Southern Sympathy Cookbook is one you’ll treasure—first, for the recipes and second, for the big belly-laughs.
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Faith’s New Favorite Rosé is Pasqua’s 11 Minutes
Faith was reminded of a Sancerre while drinking Pasqua’s seductive rosé, 11 Minutes. That’s thanks to the crispness of the Trebbiano di Lugana and the depth of the Corvina. Add the berry notes of the Carmenère, and you end up with what Faith called the best rosé she’s had in years. At $17 a bottle, it’s the value of the season.
Make Parties Easier—and More Fun—with Sheet Cakes & Slab Pies
Connecticut authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are about to make your party-dessert-making a whole lot easier (and more fun) with their latest book, All-Time Favorite Sheet Cakes & Slab Pies. The 100 + recipes here, feed a crowd. And we mean crowd.
Indian Cuisine Meets Indian Cinema in Bollywood Kitchen
If you’ve got a well-stocked spice cabinet, you can make just about any recipe in Sri Rao’s cookbook, Bollywood Kitchen, without making a special trip to the Indian market—or any market, for that matter. Sri’s taken your favorite Indian dishes and made them incredibly accessible, but still packed with the Indian flavors you’d expect.
Come On, Get Hygge
Coziness, the closest English translation of the word hygge, is only the beginning. Take a deep dive into the world of hygge by reading The Hygge Life: Embracing the Nordic Art of Coziness Through Recipes, Entertaining, Decorating, Simple Rituals, and Family Traditions by Gunnar Karl Gíslasen and Jody Eddy.
The Soave Classico is a Lovely Italian White Wine
If Sauvignon Blanc and a dry Chardonnay had a baby…you’d have this 2016 Soave Classico from the Venice region of Italy. Remember Soave? It’s the white wine everybody was drinking in the 70s and 80s—and now—it’s back.
