Scott Hocker
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It’s time to hit the road: The season’s brand-new touring theater productions (opens the original)
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Fall is when a new batch of shows take to the road. This year, you can live forever, see the future, island hop to Cuba or rewrite the 19th American century through guffaws. It’s going to be a good theatrical autumn. A tale of four intertwined lives as much as it is a partial story of Cuban history from the 1950s through the 1990s, “Buena Vista Social Club” sings, strums and sways. The “interconnections between musicians, songs and a society have rarely been evoked as vividly, and as lovingly,”
Get indoors and into the kitchen because the best of fall’s cookbooks are here (opens the original)
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. Bring on the burning stoves and the hot-air blast of a roaring oven. Autumn’s new cookbooks are an inspiriting combination of history, practicality, design and, of course, endless attractive recipes. One-time butcher, now a scholar, Chase Cormier is an ideal documentarian of the indispensable south Louisiana culinary tradition known as boucherie. The term
One great cookbook: ‘Home Cooking with Jean-Georges’ by Jean-Georges Vongerichten with Genevieve Ko (opens the original)
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten, the prolific chef and restaurateur in New York City, operates more than 45 restaurants around the world and has written five cookbooks. All of his books capture the remarkable way he merges simplicity and elucidative flavor combinations. His fourth book, 2011’s “Home Cooking with Jean-Georges ($40),” does so in a particularly utilitarian fashion. Vongerichten’s five-ingredient watermelon salad, for example, is a ferocious overturning of how to think about a favorite fr
The most seaworthy Mediterranean cookbooks (opens the original)
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. The Mediterranean is a place, a mood, a cooking ethos. Twenty-two countries border the cherished body of water, each with its own specialized manner of feeding their people. These books are no comprehensive consideration of every kitchen in the Mediterranean. But they sure are an exhilarating starting point. Wolfert’s original book on Moroccan food was pu
The best Mexican cookbooks of all time (opens the original)
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When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission. All reviews are written independently by our editorial team. People in the U.S. eat so much Mexican food in restaurants that you could be fooled into thinking there’s no such thing as Mexican home cooking. You would be wrong. The best Mexican cookbooks lift the veil, revealing a world of lush, inviting, easy recipes that have all the elements you adore in Mexican food. And if you are doing it right, it will be diff
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