Beth Fish Reads

The new spring cookbooks are starting to roll into the bookstores and into my kitchen. It's always fun to get the chance to cook out of new books.
This week is In Praise of Home Cooking by Liana Krissoff, which I received because I'm a member of the Abrams Dinner Party review program. Spoiler alert: I really like the mix of information in this book....

Today I'm writing about two culinary cozy mysteries I've recently read. One strays a bit from the genre's usual formula, and the other one is as cozy and familiar as it gets. I enjoyed them both.
Against the Currant by Olivia Matthews (2023, St. Martins Press) is a fun first installment in a new cozy mystery series set in the Little Caribbean neighborhood of Brooklyn....

If you've ever looked for a curry recipe, then you're sure to have come across the name Raghavan Iyer. He's definitely a member of curry royalty, and I'm grateful to Workman Publishers for sending me a copy of his latest book, On the Curry Trail.
In this cookbook, Iyer introduces us to the many dishes from all around the world that are at heart curries, influenced by the flavors that traveled with Indians through their diaspora and by British colonials and others as they traveled from and, in...

Don't you just love it when you find recipes that you're happy to make many times over? Today I'm sharing two such recipes. The first is from a cookbook and the other is from a website.
I can't believe that I've never written about the cookbook Skinnytaste Air Fryer Dinners by Gina Homolka (Clarkson Potter, 2021). I have much confidence in Skinnytaste, I bought this cookbook sight unseen. My instincts were right--Skinnytaste Air Fryer...