29 Apr 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

The Queen’s Chocolate Sorbet (With Some Ice Cream Love, Too)


What to serve in celebration of the passing (dare I say, thank goodness?) of the Royal Wedding from our media midst? I started off by baking some of Maida Heatter’s mohn (poppy seed) cookies, which were so speckled with poppy seeds (a full cup!) that I found them revelatory. And perfect for afternoon tea. Unfortunately, the poppy seeds skeptic in my house found them a touch overwhelming. Which gets us to this dark chocolate sorbet and peanut butter cookies. The classic American combo. Go figure. Turn the page for a recipe in today’s LA Weekly from Maida’s kitchen, by way of mine, and now on to yours.

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05 Apr 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

Cookbook Redux: Maida Heatter’s “Cakes” Classic Gets A Makeover


What’s inside a cookbook counts, but we still judge a book by its cover. Which is why even those books that should be on everyone’s shelves, like Maida Heatter’s 1997 classic Cakes (itself a compilation of two 1980s titles by Heatter) really do take on a fresh feel with a design revamp, recipe tune-up, and reissue under the same title. Heatter has simultaneously released the matching — cover-wise, at least — book Cookies, a compilation of her best cookie recipes of the past quarter century (more on that later).

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