Firehouse chef Joe Bonanno grills up new cookbook
New York City firefighter and author Joe Bonanno, famed as a firehouse cook, releases The Firehouse Grilling Cookbook featuring 150 sizzling summer recipes. The Broadway Books hardcover costs $23 and includes marinades meats vegetables and safety tips for grilling.
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Flavors of Tuscany and John Shields Bay Cooking on TV
Nationally known writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins profiles Tuscan cooking in a new cookbook featuring traditional dishes like Country Style Chicken Roasted in Vin Santo and Biscotti di Prato. Chef John Shields debuts a 13 part Public Television series Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields highlighting seafood and regional fare with a companion cookbook released by Broadway Books.
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Lady Liberty
Flare Fabric Draperies Add Soft Touch to Decor
Architectural designer Laura Bohn of New York highlights fabric as a versatile decor option. She notes gathered fabric on a curtain rod can act as a wall, offering two looks with back-to-back curtains. Fabric is dramatic yet easier to install and cheaper than wall material, with open or closed options.
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Laura Bohn
New York
Fabric drapes redefine rooms with affordable styling
New York designer Laura Bohn and decorator Jeff Kiser describe linen curtains and unconstructed fabric as versatile, affordable ways to control light, create privacy, and unify spaces in country houses. They showcase shelves as doors and fabric panels replacing cabinetry, highlighting fabric as a practical upholstery option.
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Tudor Kitchens Open to Visitors at Hampton Court Palace
Historic Royal Palaces now allows public access to part of the Tudor kitchen complex at Hampton Court Palace. The site, dating to Henry VIII’s era, features kitchens once staffed by about 200 people across 50 rooms. An accompanying Tudor Kitchens Cooke Book presents recipes like gingerbread in both old and updated forms.
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Gyngerbrede Tudor Recipe No. Ecclesiastical Stew
A Tudor kitchen note prescribes a gingerbread like confection called Gyngerbrede. It details preparing a spice mix with Safroun pepper and bread, shaping the paste into a square, and decorating with a box of candies. Red color from Saunderysynow is suggested.
Gingerbread Modern Tudor Style Squares
The recipe uses honey and bread crumbs mixed with cinnamon pepper and herbs to form a stiff dough. Press into a tin chill, cut into squares, decorate with herb leaves and cloves, and color half the batch red for a checkerboard presentation.
Hampton Court Palace Kitchens Run By Royal Staff
Hampton Court Palace extended kitchens to at least 50 rooms after Henry VIII moved in 1529. The Great Kitchen had six fireplaces and liveried servers. 200 staff cooked two meals daily for 800 courtiers. Records show yearly totals of 1240 oxen 8200 sheep 2330 deer 760 calves 1870 pigs and 53 boar. Historic Royal Palaces oversees five royal properties including the Tower of London and Kensington State Apartments.
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Gazpacho Pasta with Cannellini Beans
A low fat pasta salad blending tomatoes cucumbers and Worcestershire with cannellini beans. The recipe serves four, uses elbow macaroni cannellini beans and fresh parsley, and provides nutrition of 425 calories per serving with 2.2 grams fat.
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