From the New York Times : "Gil Marks, a culinary historian who wrote widely on the relationship between Jewish food and Jewish culture ...

Today's cookbooks from my collection all feature the foods of Israel. I've copied images from each one to illustrate the various way...

Christmas traditions are sometimes so overwhelming that someone just needs to react. Evidently, the French traditional bûche de Noël, a cake...

Pre-Columbian drinking vessel with a monkey smoking a cigarette and holding a cacao pod. Interesting fact: the word cigar comes from ...

The Family Mashber by Der Nister was written after World War I, but describes the lives of the inhabitants of a town called N. in the Jew...

My favorite Louisiana cookbook is The New Orleans Cookbook by Rima and Richard Collin, first published in 1975. It begins with lists. First...

For Thanksgiving dinner this year, we had apple pie, key lime pie, and squash/pumpkin bread. I love Evelyn's key lime pie, and she se...

Family Portrait Top row: Arny, Tracy, Mae, Tom Seated: Alice, Miriam, Evelyn, Len Turkey in the oven Carving

Thanksgiving Squash by Tracy Happy Thanksgiving! We're starting to prepare our Thanksgiving dinner -- here is Tracy's painti...

In celebration of Thanksgiving, my favorite national holiday, I've looked through a number of my American cookbooks for ways that divers...

When Patrick Modiano won the Nobel prize last month, I -- like most ordinary readers of English -- had never heard of him. His books were ...

I had other blogging ideas today, but I started reading the Poetry Foundation's list of Thanksgiving poems, and actually enjoying some o...

I know some food snobs don't take Sunset cookbooks seriously. I'm not a food snob, and over time, I have learned a lot from Sunset!...