Table Notes

Gourmet Cookbook: 60 Year Anniversary Edition

There is a wonderful radio interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Ruth Reichl, editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine. (October 5, 2004) It's about the newly issued, The Gourmet Cookbook, which "includes more than 1,200 recipes culled from 60 years of the magazine's back issues." As Reichl notes, Gourmet Magazine spans an incredible band of time when America transitioned from being an agricultural based society to the present post-industrial environment. This makes this book part anthropological study of how food in America has evolved since the 40s. (Also read her article on the Epicurious website.) Sounds like a worthy member of any cookbook collection. Xmas pressie anyone?

- Nicole