Blogs I actually read
In April, I mentioned Heidi Swanson’s blog www.101cookbooks.com, and I have just gotten in her book, Super Natural Cooking, a wonderful addition to my 300+ cookbooks. (Seriously, 101 is just too limiting for me!)
The latest blog I've added to the list is Eric Gower's BreakawayCook.com/blog. This book has definitely started to influence my cooking at home and has helped solidify some concepts that swim around in my head along with all the other thoughts about food that live up there.
Omnivoreherbivorecarnivore.blogspot.com is written by a recent transplant to La Honda who has some serious food writing chops. She has written for the Globe and Mail and the SF Chronicle, and got her Ph.D. in Literature and History at Stanford.
eggbeater.typepad.com is the brainchild of Shuna Lydon, who has been the Pastry Chef at some of the best restaurants in the country, from the Mesa Grill and Gramercy Tavern in NYC to French Laundry, Bouchon, Citizen Cake and Aziza, which is where I fell in love with her work through an amazing concoction of Brown Sugar Ice Cream with Cornbread and stone fruit. For a southerner like me, it was epiphanal take on summer. She offers great tips, techniques, recipes and insight into the mind of a chef (which is not always a pretty thing) on her site.
Amy Andrews (Amysfoodroom.com) and Coastside resident Amy Fothergill (www.theFamilyChef.blogspot.com) both have young children and speak to getting them fed well with as little fuss as possible. They also tag team to teach classes on cooking, and I'm delighted to announce that Amy Fothergill will be doing a demo at Toque Blanche on Saturday, June 7th.