Jan Norris: Food and Florida

I’ve written two cookbooks – both small, spiral-bound and both produced with my friend/publisher, Barry Schlacter of Great Texas Publishing. (I’ve got another one in the works; hope to finish it this month.) The most popular of the two is Sweet Southern: A Heritage of Beloved Desserts. It’s a dessert cookbook covering much of the [...]

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Whether you bake bread or are merely appreciate a fine loaf, this video from Chad Robertson will make you want to jump on a plane and get to Tartine Bakery and Cafe, where Chad and his wife Elizabeth Prueitt serve San Francisco with artisan breads, pastries and more. Their cookbook, Tartine Bread, is worth the [...]

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I love the Splendid Table radio show on American Public Media stations. Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a cool host with such down-to-earth, solid kitchen advice, and her producer Sally Swift is a godsend to cooks everywhere. The callers are thoughtful and witty, and there are some serious recipes given out on the show that have [...]

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Got cookbooks? If you’re a long-time cook like me who reads cookbooks like others read novels or travel guides, you’ve got shelves of cookbooks in your house – under the bed, in the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, filling up an unused cat bed, and stacked in closets. You get rid of some now and [...]

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  After Easter, my childhood neighbor, Mrs. Arda Smiggen, made pickled eggs with leftover Easter eggs. My dad could eat a jar of them, unfortunately. I remember the pink eggs on her counter whose insides matched the pink refrigerator in her kitchen that my dad had painted for her. So I smiled when someone brought [...]

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