This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »

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 »

A few pages of Balzac is all you need to know that you’re in the company of a serious foodie—his descriptions of meals and restaurants are painstaking, mouthwatering and frequent.… Read more »

Alfred Hitchcock was a giant of twentieth-century film and one of the foremost innovators in the suspense and thriller genres. Indeed, many of the ingredients for those genres are traceable… Read more »

Yesterday I blogged about a future Melville House author Leigh Stein and her wittily poetic take on Reality TV. Today, I’d like to highlight another Melville House author and his… Read more »

The New York Times has some gorgeous images from Nathan Myhrvold’s 40+ pound, $625, 1,500-recipe cookbook “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.” Myhrvold, the former CTO of Microsoft,… Read more »

Still need inspiration for those get-fit, eat-better new year’s resolutions? The mere fact of a number on the scales higher than you’d prefer not enough to get you to change… Read more »

According to a Jane Black report in New York magazine, the average cookbook is getting heavier and heavier. Citing this blog post by culinary historian Anne Mendelson, the magazine notes… Read more »

“A cookery book which includes recipes using stale bread and roadside weeds has become a huge best-seller in Germany,” according to a BBC News report. The book, Hartz IV —… Read more »

Secrets of Salsa: A Bilingual Cookbook by the Mexican Women of Anderson Valley, which has sold more than 20,000 copies since it was first published in 2000, was little more… Read more »