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A Review of Two New Gluten Free Books, Some Buns and Two Giveaways

A Review of Two New Gluten Free Books, Some Buns and Two Giveaways by The Crispy Cook

Demos Health has recently published two revised editions of books of interest to the gluten-free community and sent me two review copies to look over. The first book I examined is Kim Koeller and Robert La France's "Let's Eat Out Around the World:…

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Cooking from Babette's Feast: A Movie Review and some Easy Aioli

Cooking from Babette's Feast: A Movie Review and some Easy Aioli by The Crispy Cook

Every month the hosts at Food 'n Flix pick a movie and participants then cook up something in its honor. This month the film is truly wonderful: Babette's Feast, an Oscar-winning 1987 Danish movie based on an Isak Dinesen short story. I won't give away…

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Eating our Way through Albany, New York on a Cold Winter's Day

Eating our Way through Albany, New York on a Cold Winter's Day by The Crispy Cook

Playing tourist in our own backyard during this interminable winter is one way to beat the cabin fever blahs. It was also the perfect cover for my ruse to lure my husband to a surprise birthday dinner with his favorite loved ones.The epic journey…

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2014 List of Gluten Free Blogs That Caught my Eye

2014 List of Gluten Free Blogs That Caught my Eye by The Crispy Cook

There are so many great gluten-free blogs nowadays When I first started this list several years ago, I had fifty or so bloggers listed and then the list ballooned on over 150. I've trimmed it back since then so I can update it more easily and now the list reflects the blogs that I think most effectively cover a certain point-of-view…

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Lois' Versatile Vegetable Chowder Recipe: A Gift from a Good Friend

Lois' Versatile Vegetable Chowder Recipe: A Gift from a Good Friend by The Crispy Cook

My friend Lois is amazingly optimistic and happy. She's always in a good mood. Even when there's terrible weather or some health issue crops up, she's upbeat and always ready to envelope me in a welcoming hug. She's the kind of person that you…

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Our New Favorite Gluten-Free Stuffing Recipe and a Review of Canyon Bakehouse Breads

Our New Favorite Gluten-Free Stuffing Recipe and a Review of Canyon Bakehouse Breads by The Crispy Cook

Our house has always had a stuffing debate going on. I grew up in a Southern-style cornbread stuffing household and Dan's family was of the bread cube variety. Both families, however, approved of the theory that the stuffing was the central item of…

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A Book Review of Baking Cakes in Kigali and an Awesome African Meal

A Book Review of Baking Cakes in Kigali and an Awesome African Meal by The Crispy Cook

In the five plus years since the online foodie book club Cook the Books began, we've traveled to many kitchens in many lands, but never have we set foot on the African continent until this latest round. We're reading Baking Cakes in Kigali, by Gaile…

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Sweet Cravings Gluten Free Desserts Cookbook Review and some Proustworthy Lemon Madeleines

Sweet Cravings Gluten Free Desserts Cookbook Review and some Proustworthy Lemon Madeleines by The Crispy Cook

A new gluten-free baking book, Sweet Cravings: 50 Seductive Desserts for a Gluten-Free Lifestyle (Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2013) has been winning a wider and wider audience for its irritatingly photogenic author, Kyra Bussanich, since her recent…

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Animal, Vegetable, Jalapeno!

Animal, Vegetable, Jalapeno! by The Crispy Cook

The current selection for this round of Cook the Books, the online foodie book club, is a wonderful non-fiction narrative, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by bestselling novelist Barbara Kingsolver, husband Steven L. Hopp, and daughters Camille and Lily. We will be reading this book until November 25, 2013, after…

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The Butcher's Great Granddaughter Meets the Baker's Daughter

The Butcher's Great Granddaughter Meets the Baker's Daughter by The Crispy Cook

Guten tag! The current book selection for the awesome online foodie book club, Cook the Books, is Sarah McCoy's "The Baker's Daughter". I am a butcher's great grand-daughter, by the way, hence the title of this post, and I have a couple of his knives…

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