Everybody needs at least one go-to sweets recipe that you can make at the drop of a hat and take anywhere. For school or church or work, family or friends, your kids or your mom or someone will ask
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How to Cook & Eat Well with Chef Linda Shiue
This is my friend Chef Linda Shiue and she has a new cookbook.
Chef Linda is also Dr. Linda Shiue, practicing
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Welcome to My World
Thank you for visiting my little corner of the internet. I dreamed up A Cook and Her Books in 2009 as a place to
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Chicken & Dumplings with Chef Scott Peacock
On the kind of crisp October day that makes you long for good friends and good food, pandemic be damned, I found myself
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How to Bake a Buttermilk Chess Pie
Originally published April 6, 2011.
Pie is the new cupcake. Did you know that? That's why I've spent the last month
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How to Bake Biscuits with Chef Scott Peacock
Biscuits are containers of memory and emotion.~ Chef Scott Peacock
In March 2019, when the camellias were fully
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Muscadines are Autumn’s Wild Grapes
The muscadine season in Georgia lasts just a couple of months in autumn, but like it is with the sweetest watermelons of
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Rice Pudding, for Cheryl
Here's a popular story from the first incarnation of A Cook and Her Books. It's the simplest dessert I know, rice
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Luscious Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake (for National Pound Cake Day)
I'm not sure how or why there is a National Pound Cake Day, but here it is the 4th day of March, in the holiday lull
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On Valentine’s Day, bake biscotti for those you love
On Valentine’s Day, we celebrate the ones we love and what better way to celebrate than by baking? Chocolate is
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