by Brian | Dec 9, 2016 | Recipes
Earlier today I posted a review for Biscuit Head, a glorious biscuit book from the Biscuit Head restaurant founders Jason and Carolyn Roy. It’s a lovely book with just a handful of biscuit recipes per se. Most of the book’s recipes deal with what to...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2016 | Recipes
In Biscuit Bliss, James Villas suggests that your perceptions of a “simple biscuit” might be wrong. In fact, those perceptions are wrong. While a straightforward light and fluffy biscuit is sublime — with that butter and jam or honey —...
by Brian | Sep 2, 2016 | Recipes
In Biscuit Bliss, James Villas promises you biscuit happiness and delivers page after page. This is one of the first recipes in the book. It’s in the classic Southern tradition: vegetable shortening, ideally Southern flour and buttermilk. Light, flakey and...
by Brian | Jun 2, 2015 | Recipes
Here’s another American classic from Around the Southern Table by Sarah Belk. Southern Table is a tour de force of historic dishes with a trove of culinary history in the headnotes. In colonial America, white flour was priced at a premium. So the colonists would...
by Brian | May 13, 2015 | Dessert Digest
Size does matter. But gigantic is not always best. Sometimes, sometimes elegance comes in a small bundle carefully articulated. Here’s a perfect example. We tend to bake “big.” Big cookies, big muffins, big shortcakes slathered in a mountain of...