The Cookbook Test
James NortonOne cookbook - vintage or new - every week. Clean, candid, deep-dive reviews. Hands-on recipe testing. Wrestling with the soul of food, on the regular.
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Barely 90 Minutes: Dishing Up Love (2025)
A tale of two restaurants set in an improbably tiny Western town pits John and his plucky diner against Bree and her incredibly ill-conceived French white tablecloth joint. In Dishing Up Love, the only thing that makes less sense than the f...
Barely 90 Minutes: Welcome to Mama’s (2022)
Becca gets (yet another) chance to be triggered by a foomance that gingerly attempts to mine the Italian-North American experience for cinematic gold without engaging anything resembling the big questions of assimilation versus ethnic ident...
Barely 90 Minutes: Wedding Bells (2016)
Has there ever been a foomance with a more forgettable name than Wedding Bells? We don’t think so, but the film has some memorable moments: smart use of food, reasonably good acting and chemistry from leading man Nick and leading lady Winni...
Barely 90 Minutes: A Toast to Love (2024)
A Toast to Love puts wine in the forefront as it follows the adventures of clumsy / “nerdy” protagonist in her search for marine artifacts and good old fashioned love. We brought in wine guy and all-around-entertaining-dude John Garland to...
Barely 90 Minutes: Savoring Paris (2024)
When exhausted corporate drone Ella quits her job to move to Paris and get her groove back, charming food critic Gaston and grouchy cheesemonger Serge compete for her attention. A strictly by-the-book foomance gets surprisingly deep in the...
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Founding editor of The Heavy Table and The Cookbook Test. Author of The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin and Lake Superior Flavors. Always cooking, always writing.
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