"baltimoresun" news and stories

• Fall is here and with it have come a wave of new cookbooks. The Baltimore Sun food section staff take a look at the new crop and narrow it down to the pick of the harvest.
• This week the Recipe Finder tracks down instructions on how to make Tomato Jelly.
• After some trial and error, Rob Kasper succeeds in baking up a batch of homemade pretzels for his own personal Oktoberfest celebration.
• Kate Shatzkin uses a recipe from the new cookbook Two Dudes, One Pan to prepare a weeknight dinner for under $12.
• Elizabeth Large highlights her top 10 local restaurants that just happen to be located in strip malls.

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• The Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah is coming up and one of the food traditions that goes with it is the consumption of honey, to represent the sweetness of life.
• This week, the Recipe Finder features a Graham Cracker Brownie recipe. Yum!
• Rob Kasper searches for the perfect Maryland Fried Chicken with Cream Gravy and comes up with a winner.
• Cherry tomatoes are an easy crop to grow on a patio and make a terrific pickled addition to a martini (in place of the olive).
• Geof Manthorne, the enigmatic right-hand man on Ace of Cakes, has become something of a heartthrob since the show's inception.

• Tips on packing healthy lunches for your kids.
• A new restaurant row is popping up in a neighborhood of Baltimore.
• Rob Kasper light-heartedly complains about the crowds and prices at his local farmers markets.
• Punch up morning meals with tangy orange marmalade.
• A corrected Grape Crisp recipe, as the one printed a few weeks ago had the wrong amount of melted butter.
  
• Buy the family packs of meat at the grocery store for good value and quick meals.

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• As the economy tightens and people look for ways to fight back against rising grocery prices, one thing consumers can do is select cheaper, flavorful cuts of meat.
• Rob Kasper announces that the very best eating month in Maryland is September, especially since the tomatoes came late this year.
• Digging deep into the science of menu design.
• Make gazpacho a day or two ahead for best flavor.
• Make and freeze potstickers for quick meals during the week.
• A local church tries to help their neighborhood by buying and giving away $30,000 worth of groceries.

• Keep things cool in these waning days of summer with chilly desserts.
• World traveling sailors learn how to eat that Maryland delicacy, blue crabs.
• Burdick Chocolate in Walpole, New Hampshire, offers a line of politically oriented chocolates and candies, just in time for the conventions.
• Rob Kasper reviews an assortment of artisanal rums.
• Have pie for every meal at the Dangerously Delicious Savory House.
• Laura McCandlish reviews Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More Than 100 Legendary Recipes By Arthur Schwartz Stewart.
• What to do with self-rising flour? Make biscuits!

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