Red Rock Press

This Sunday marks the 9th anniversary of Mother-in-Law Day, and we’d like to offer some special tips for sweetening that all too often sour relationship.

In 1842, New York welcomed Charles Dickens with a 3,000 person gala festival at the Park Theatre dubbed “The Boz Ball,” which featured a 50,000 oyster feast. Red Rock Press celebrates this literary giant with a recipe for Scalloped Oysters.

Tomato sauce (though originally from the New World) might as well be synonymous with Italian cuisine today, and Red Rock Press would like to celebrate Columbus day with legendary chef Judith Choate’s classic Homemade Tomato Sauce recipe.

Red Rock Press is celebrating the first day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Oct. 12) with a modern, healthy update on a traditional one-pot dish that represents the bounty of the fall harvest: Kohlrabi and Carrot Stew.

Red Rock Press is proudly celebrating the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Dickens with an original recipe for Rum Punch from Dickens himself, an updated recipe from Alice Ross, and the unveiling of a new website: www.ADickensChristmas.com.

Red Rock Press celebrates the new eating possibilities spurred by community garden harvests from coast to coast. Its new website, www.CommunityGardenRecipes.com, is devoted to A WHITE HOUSE GARDEN COOKBOOK and kitchen gardens around the country.

Break out the Shofar – Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is beginning at sundown on Wednesday, and families across America and the world are starting preparations for the celebration. Clara Silverstein recommends an apple & honey recipe.

Judith Choate, considered one of the doyennes of American cookbook writing, will appear on the Conversations Live radio program with host Cyrus Vance Monday evening at 6:45 PM (EST) at www.conversationsliveradio.com.

Falling leaves single the onset of autumn, a wonderful time for jam & jelly lovers to make the most of fine harvests of seasonal produce, and professional chefs are urging people to seek out locally available fruits and herbs that are in season.

Home gardeners flooded with a rush of late summer produce do not need to choose between the compost and the trash, according to Judith Choate, a three-time James Beard winner and cofounder of the French Culinary Institute in NYC.