Recipe: Jose Garces's Ham Hock and Tomato Stew
For this hearty and flavorful stew, JBF Award winner and Iron Chef Jose Garces takes smoked ham hocks—the tough cuts of pork located between the leg and foot—and simmers them for hours in a spicy, tomato-rich base.
Recipe: Lawrence Chu's Home-Style Oxtail Stew
This Chinese-style oxtail stew is go-to comfort food for Bay-Area chef Lawrence Chu. Once you taste the succulent, hours-long braised meat, which is scented with ginger, star anise, and chile paste, it will become a favorite in your home as well.
The Bookshelf: Canal House Cooking
As we first turned the pages of the winter and holiday issue of Canal House Cooking—the second volume by former Saveur staffers Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer—we were struck by its approachability: an apple pie with an eroding crust, basking in mellow, natural light; red peppers blackening on a flecked and splattered stove top. As the authors write in their introduction, Canal House Cooking is “home cooking by home cooks for home cooks.”
“We are used to styling and shooting food for cookbooks, but when we shoot for ourselves we are quite loose about it,” said Hirsheimer via email. “There is an authenticity about the images because that is what is going on—you are seeing things in real time.”
There is an intimacy to the book as
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