New edible cookbook bakes into a lasagne
German design firm Korefe has designed a special edition item that gives new, and very literal, meaning to the word cookbook. Made entirely of fresh pasta, The Real Cookbook (Das Echte… Read more »
Oddest Book Title of the Year award-winner named
I know, I know, we’re supposed to be a bunch of highbrows over here at Melville House. Britain’s Independent newspaper called us an “upscale” publisher, some academic in Australia has… Read more »
Tuna loaf and love: Sadie Stein on the peculiar joys of period recipes
At The Paris Review, Sadie Stein writes about her eccentric teenage interest in preparing the meals described in the 1917 narrative cookbook A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband (with Bettina’s… 1 / Read more »
Stéphane Reynaud talks about what makes a roast so special. The legendary gourmand Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once wrote that, “A cook may be taught, but a man who can roast,… Read more »