Mardi Michels 
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is all sorts of good. These are the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. I don’t even bake and I NEED this recipe Just a couple of the comments about Kerrin’s Multigrain Cookies from my colleagues who finished a large plate of them well before … Read more
A book by Dorie Greenspan, all about butter? Sign me up! But not just any book about butter – a Short Stack Edition! Short Stack is a series of small-format, single-subject cookbook booklets by America’s top culinary talents. Each edition offers “ingenious new ways to cook our favorite ingredients” and contains 20 to 25 recipes … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is the perfect antidote to the chilly temperatures that have all ove a sudden decide to stick around (after a strange fall with temperatures in the 20s somedays!). It’s a simple soup – celery root with leeks and a few herbs, made … Read more
The Petits Chefs were lucky boys this week as they welcomed Adell Shneer back into the lab to show them how to decorate sugar cookies! Adell (who has worked with the boys on a number of occasions before) is both a friend and cookie decorator extraordinaire and I invited her to come in and show … Read more
Food waste. It’s a big topic everywhere these days. From my school lunchroom where we’re constantly trying to reduce the amount of food waste to projects from big name chefs like Massimo Bottura who, during Expo Milano in 2015 transformed an abandoned theatre in the Greco neighborhood of Milan into a soup kitchen with the … Read more
Love classic French recipes? Love gorgeous photos of France? Délicieux : The Recipes of France is for you! Written by Gabriel Gaté, this is a collection of recipes based on his “experiences as a chef, cookery teacher and lover of French food and travel” Gabriel Gâté was born in the Loire Valley in France but … Read more