Rigorous in detail and yet explained in an accessible manner, "The Korean Cookbook" presents a panorama of recipes and food history punctuated with artful color images of finished dishes. Throughout its pages, Junghyun Park and Jungyoon... Read More

Despite being known as the home of sushi and ramen, Japan has a long history of vegetable-forward dishes, and Nancy Singleton Hachisu’s Japan: The Vegetarian Cookbook is a beautiful celebration of its vegetarian cooking. An American... Read More

"The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook" is a dazzling, rich text that highlights the skill of maestras throughout Mexico’s diverse regions, relating how vegetables and herbs are the foundation of disparate dishes in the national cuisine. The... Read More

"The Ephemeris" by William Jay is a unique and artistic work with aspects modeled on the styles of the Renaissance and the classical Greek era. With a plot line that seems to be modeled on Homer’s Odyssey, it opens as a merchant... Read More

“We New Englanders,” Hawthorne remarked only partly in jest to Rebecca Harding Davis, “begin to enjoy ourselves—when we are dead.” Hawthorne’s death came prematurely in 1864, many speculated as a result of his grief over the... Read More

The contributors and editors of Kings of the Ice have done yeomen’s work in compiling this (literally) heavy-duty volume about the history and personalities of world hockey. This tome weighs in at over 1,000 pages, telling the whole... Read More