Contact: katemalay at gmail
Hi! I’m Kate, and I love to cook. Several years ago, I tested the wonderful cookbooks Hot Cheese and The Pepper Thai Cookbook, with lovely acknowledgments in the backs, too, and I occasionally still add to my collection of over 90 cookbooks. I created this site around that time as a celebration of the chefs and their teams of photographers, designers, editors, testers, and publishers who give us the gifts of their talent, time, and heart, in hardcover.
Today, the site serves as an event portfolio with writing samples. I am happy to provide a full resume at katemalay (at) gmail.
All of the writing and photography are my own, which means that, yes, I’ve chased four live blue crabs across my kitchen counter with not nearly long enough tongs, by myself, and you can, too! (Just please do not take the content, I have multiple litigators in my family who care about me, and I wouldn’t mess—they prefer dungeness!)
Thank you for visiting, and happy cooking!
MY EVER GROWING COLLECTION
(Book spine credited authors only, though it pains me)
American recipes and reference:
The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fanny Farmer
James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking, James Beard
The All New Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker
The Best Recipe Cookbook, Cooks Illustrated editors
The New Best Recipe Cookbook, Cooks Illustrated editors
The Food Lab, J. Kenzi Lopez-Alt
Salt Fat Acid Heat, Samin Nosrat
Root to Leaf, Steven Satterfield
The Home Cook, Alex Guarnaschelli
Gather and Graze, Stephanie Izard
A Meatloaf in Every Oven, Frank Bruni and Jennifer Steinhauer
Cherry Bombe, Kerry Diamond and Claudia Wu
Solo, Anita Lo
Ruffage, Abra Berens
Between Heaven and Harlem, JJ Johnson and Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers
Roberta’s, Carlo Mirarchi, Brandon Hoy, Chris Parachini, and Katherine Wheelock
American Flavor, Andrew Carmellini
Everyday Dorie, Dorie Greenspan
West coast chefs and restaurants:
Tom Douglas’ Seattle, Tom Douglas
On Vegetables, Jeremy Fox
State Bird Provisions, Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinksi
Bäco, Josef Centeno and Betty Hallock
Bestia, Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis
Everything I Want to Eat, Jessica Koslow
Mozza at Home, Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreno
The Scarpetta Cookbook, Scott Conant
Night+Market, Kris Yenbamroong
Adventures in Starry Kitchen, Nguyen Tran
Pok Pok, Andy Ricker
Guerilla Tacos, Wes Avila
VOLT ink., Bryan and Michael Voltaggio
Aloha Kitchen, Alana Kysar
Ludobites, Ludo Lefebvre
Nobu the Cookbook, Nobuyuki Matsuhisa
My Nepenthe, Romney Steele
The L.A. Cookbook, Alison Clare Steingold
What’s for Dinner?, Curtis Stone
Fabio’s Italian Kitchen, Fabio Viviani
American regional:
Down South, Donald Link
Smoke and Pickles, Edward Lee
Heritage, Sean Brock
Cooking in the Moment, Andrea Reusing
Victuals, Ronni Lundy
Tupelo Honey Cafe, Elizabeth Sims and Brian Sonoskus
Biscuit Head, Jason and Carolyn Roy
Chasing the Gator, Isaac Toups and Jennifer V. Cole
An American Place, Larry Forgione
Eat Me, the Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopskin
International cuisine:
The Classic Italian Cookbook, Marcella Hazan
Marcella’s Italian Kitchen, Marcella Hazan
Marcella Cucina, Marcella Hazan
All Biba Caggiano cookbooks
The Nordic Cookbook, Magnus Nilsson
Lisbon, Rebecca Seal
Kaukasis, Olia Hercules
Bottom of the Pot, Naz Deravian
Far East Cookery, Madhur Jaffrey
Made in India, Meera Sodha
Cook Korean!, Robin Ha
Maangchi’s Real Korean Cooking, Maangchi
Izakaya, Mark Robinson
The Food of Thailand, Oi Cheepchaiissara, Lulu Grimes, and Alan Benson
International restaurants:
Central, Virgilio Martinez (Peru)
My Mexico City Kitchen, Gabriela Camara (Mexico)
The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria, Ferran Adria (Spain)
Technique and ingredient oriented:
The Noma Guide to Fermentation, Rene Redzepi and David Zilber
Whole Beast Butchery, Ryan Farr
Offal Good, Chris Cosentino
Nom Nom Paleo, Michelle Tam and Henry Fong
Baking:
Bravetart, Stella Parks
Baking at Republique, Margarita Manzke and Betty Hallock
Momofuku Milk Bar, Christina Tosi
Milk Bar Life, Christina Tosi