Sharing

June 22, 2010

A few cool things are happening that I wanted to share with you.

One is, “100 Perfect Pairings” continues to get good reviews. Here’s one from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, another in Carolyn Cope’s blog Umami Girl, and yet another in Napa Sonoma magazine.

Cool, huh?

Ta da!

June 11, 2010

I’m pleased as punch to tell you about my groovy new web site! If you’re not already reading this post at www.jillhough.com, please click over, then click around, and check it out!

100 Perfect Pairings: Small Plates to Enjoy with Wines You Love – now at a store near you!

May 19, 2010

Well, it finally happened.

The book that I spent much of 2008 writing and creating recipes for, that I spent much of 2009 shepherding through the edit process – not “100 Perfect Pairings: Entrees” mind you, which I wrote last year, but the first “100 Perfect Pairings” book that I initially proposed to a publisher back in 2007 – is a real, live, out-in-the-world cookbook!

It’s very strange to have this thing that’s been a mostly private phenomenon become a public one. Well, phenomenon, I don’t know. But it’s out there in public! And so far, to good reviews.

NEW POST: An incredible week at Rancho La Puerta

March 10, 2010

Three weeks ago, I had the amazingly good fortune to be the visiting cooking teacher at Rancho La Puerta, just over the border in Tecate, Mexico.

100 down! Plus a final message of love to my recipe testers!

February 4, 2010

A month ago today, I hit “send” on the manuscript for my second “100 Perfect Pairings” cookbook. It took me a week or so to recover, then another couple of weeks to catch up with all I’d been putting off, and then, well, another week of procrastinating blogging and – here we are!

Foods I’m thankful for

November 23, 2009

Thanksgiving is here again, and my mind wanders to some of the culinary delights I’m most thankful for.

48 down, 52 to go – plus more love for my recipe testers!

September 21, 2009

I’m narrowing in on finishing the first half of the book – working on the last white wine chapter, Gewürztraminer (gah-VERTZ-trah-mee-ner), this week and next. After only one day in the kitchen, I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s going really well.

How I learned about salt

September 8, 2009

My brother stood over the stovetop, swallowed a spoonful, and said, “Um, this just needs salt.” He added some salt, we tasted it again, and damn if that soup didn’t go from dish water to delicious.

A shout out to my recipe testers

August 19, 2009

Today I was up to my eyeballs in recipe edits and yield tests for spelt and farro and cracked wheat, oh my, and what should arrive in my inbox but an email from one of my recipe testers for my book, with photos of her in the kitchen, having a ball, making my recipes, and I just had to stop and smile at the fact that anyone, let alone these 14 people, would volunteer to help me with my work, and think it’d be fun to try my recipes and evaluate them with various wines, totally at their own expense, AND have a good enough time doing it to take happy pictures and send them to me.