Synopses & Reviews
One of several serialized cookbooks that comprises unpretentious but inspiring recipes, photographs, stories, and quotations that are well suited to the home cook who revels in the simple pleasures of the table, not to mention a good read by the fire.
Canal House Cooking Volume No. 6, The Grocery Store is a collection of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families, using the best that grocery stores have to offer. It is filled with recipes that will make you want to run straight to the grocery store to stock up and start cooking.
Synopsis
Canal House Cooking Volume No. 6, The Grocery Store is a collection of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families, using the best that grocery stores have to offer. It is filled with recipes that will make you want to run straight to the grocery store to stock up and start cooking.
About the Author
CHRISTOPHER HIRSHEIMER is a home cook, writer, award-winning photographer, and cofounder of Canal House, whose facets include a publishing venture, culinary and design studio, and an annual series of three seasonal cookbooks titled
Canal House Cooking. Before starting Canal House in 2007 in Lambertville, NJ, Hirsheimer was one of the founders of
Saveur, where she was executive editor. She cowrote the award-winning
Saveur Cooks series and
The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market Cookbook (Chronicle, 2006), and her photographs have appeared in more than fifty cookbooks by such notables as Colman Andrews, Lidia Bastianich, Deborah Madison, Mario Batali, Julia Child, Jacques Pépin, David Tanis, and Alice Waters; and in numerous magazines, including
Bon Appétit,
Food & Wine,
InStyle, and
Town & Country.
MELISSA HAMILTON is a home cook, writer, painter, food stylist, and cofounder of Canal House. She previously worked at Saveur as test kitchen director, and was its food editor for many years. Hamilton also worked at Martha Stewart Living and Cook’s Illustrated. She has developed and tested recipes and styled food for both magazines and cookbooks, including those by acclaimed chefs and cookbook authors Colman Andrews, Lidia Bastianich, John Besh, Deborah Madison, Jonathan Waxman, David Tanis, and Alice Waters.
Christopher and Melissa currently collaborate on Canal House Cooking, for which they do all the writing, recipes, photography, design, and production. They are 2013 James Beard Foundation nominees for their cookbook, Canal House Cooks Every Day (Andrews McMeel, 2012) and for their Bon Appétit video series, “The Seasonal Cooks”, as well as 2013 IACP nominees for Photography and Food Styling. They also write a column for Bon Appétit, “The Seasonal Cooks.” To see more of what these two women are up to, visit their website, thecanalhouse.com.