02 Sep 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

Bookshelf: Menu Design in America, 1850 – 1985


Large-scale, photo-driven books tend to conjure images of Impressionist landscapes and Sierra Club-worthy polar bears. Pretty, but also pretty boring after the initial flip-through. But very occasionally, there is a large-scale book that is the rare exception, a book like Menu Design in America: A Visual and Culinary History of Graphic Styles and Design, 1850-1985 with as much thought-provoking brawn as stunning artistic inspiration.

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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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