best potato salad ever

Warm Potato Salad

Warm Potato Salad

Warm Potato Salad excerpted from Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook by Matty Matheson. Photography by Quentin Bacon.

Matty Matheson: Soups, Salads, Sandwiches: A Cookbook by Matty Matheson is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Indigo.ca.

Chances are you’ve eaten a soup, salad, or sandwich in the past day (or maybe all three). This trio makes up so many of our meals but is rarely given the attention it deserves–until now. Matty Matheson, known for his bold, innovative flavours, has created a cookbook that will revolutionize how you think of these kitchen basics. This book is for anyone and everyone, offering up Matty’s signature twists on the classics, delivered with minimal effort for maximum flavour.

Find your favourite combination by mixing and matching dishes like:

Soups: Giant Meatball Soup; Crab Congee; Creamy Sausage Soup with Rapini and Tortellini; Caldo de Pollo

Salads: Everyone’s Mom’s Macaroni and Tuna Salad; Griddled Salami Panzanella Salad; Peaches with Goat Cheese, Mint, Honeycomb, Olive Oil, and Espellete

Sandwiches: Cubano; Italian Combo; Sun Warmed Tomato Sandwich; Banana Bread French; Toast with Fried Egg, Peameal Bacon, and Maple Syrup

Packed with character, personal stories, scrumptious recipes, and vivid photographs of a day-in-the-life with Matty and his family, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches will have you fearlessly whipping up your own combinations in the kitchen.

Matty Matheson is a New York Times bestselling author as well as an executive producer and actor on the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning show The Bear. Matty owns Cassoulet Palace Inc. and is a partner in Our House H.C., Blue Goose Farm, Rosa Rugosa, Matheson Cookware, and Matheson Food Company. He lives in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada with his wife and three children. (more…)

Book Review: Cooking Up a Storm 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Cooking up a storm cover

After Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans in 2005, Cooking Up a Storm was published to tell the story—recipe by recipe—of one of the great food cities of the world and the determination of its citizens to preserve and safeguard their culinary legacy.

In a town obsessed with food, that meant discovering years of collected recipes—many ripped from the newspaper and tucked into cookbooks—were gone. As residents started to rebuild their lives in the aftermath, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm.

Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker have compiled 250 of these delicious, authentic recipes along with the stories of how they came to be and what they mean to those who have searched so hard to find them again. (more…)