Food Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/food/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:45:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Food Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/food/ 32 32 38398750 Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/bourdain-the-definitive-oral-biography/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/bourdain-the-definitive-oral-biography/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2021 05:36:24 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=16242 Suicide is always shocking to those left behind, but when it’s someone famous, someone with what looks to be a “dream” life, it feels even more inexplicable. This was the case June 2018 when Anthony Bourdain killed himself. Bourdain was a chef turned television personality who created the iconic No Reservations and Parts Unknown series. […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/11/bourdain-the-definitive-oral-biography/feed/ 6 16242 Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:27:17 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7383   My timing for this review may be a bit off as tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a day of food, but Salt Sugar Fat is not about home cooked meals. Instead, it is a depressing tour of tour of the multitude of ways in which the food industry has duped the American consumer for the last […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/11/salt-sugar-fat-how-the-food-giants-hooked-us/feed/ 7 7383 In Search of the Perfect Loaf https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/in-search-perfect-loaf/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/in-search-perfect-loaf/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:44:10 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3521   Carbs have fallen in and out of favor throughout the years but never with me. Bread is one of my favorite food groups and always will be! Samuel Fromartz feels the same way and documents his love in In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker’s Odyssey. His story begins when he travels to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/12/in-search-perfect-loaf/feed/ 4 3521 From Scratch: Inside the Food Network https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/from-scratch-inside-food-network/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/from-scratch-inside-food-network/#comments Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:07:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2224 A bit of backstory: in the early 2000s when my husband was traveling a great deal for work, we would talk at the end of the day. Several trips in a row, when we spoke, he said he had either grabbed something to eat on the way to the hotel or had room service (which […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/10/from-scratch-inside-food-network/feed/ 1 2224 Hubert Keller’s Souvenirs: Stories & Recipes from My Life https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/hubert-kellers-souvenirs/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/hubert-kellers-souvenirs/#respond Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:22:04 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=860 For Chantal and me the restaurant business is a passion and will always be a passion. There is always something new to work on. I like a challenge, to see if I can pull it off, even when it’s an area in which I am not completely comfortable and have to learn as I go […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/11/hubert-kellers-souvenirs/feed/ 0 860 The Art of the Restaurateur https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-art-of-the-restaurateur/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2012/09/the-art-of-the-restaurateur/#respond Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:41:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=599 At age twenty-nine, Nicholas Lander became the proud owner of L’Escargot, a London restaurant that had fallen on hard times. So began his journey into a world he would come to love and a group of people he would grow to admire. Throughout the 1980s Lander built L’Escargot into a London restaurant of renown. When […]

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