Do you know of Helen Corbitt? Well, I hadn’t until just over a week ago. Brian and I had taken a few days in Philadelphia. I had never seen the Liberty Bell, or Independence Hall, or had eaten at Reading Terminal Market (amazing!). While we were strolling through Old City, we stopped in a used book store. It smelled musty, with creaky floorboards, and bookshelves that were so tall and crammed so tightly with books, the Californian in me was immediately made wary of earthquakes. I love a good used bookstore, and New Haven, although it is ultimately a college town, has a paucity of them. So I made a beeline for the cookbook section in this particular store, and there I stumbled across Helen Corbitt’s Cookbook.
I love vintage cookbooks, they tell stories of times past, what foods were in fashion, and what [...]

Perhaps this month you have been inspired to make breakfast a thing of beauty. Perhaps you are exhausted by my regaling you about the wonders of grilled bread, fluffy waffles, or oatmeal, a new way. Perhaps you are asking yourself: All of these recipes are nice and all, but does Adrienne really eat like this every day? And the answer, my friends is…of course not.
I, like many people, get fixated on foods. And it seems that the one area where this is most apparent is breakfast. For the quick, grab-it-and-go, sort of breakfast I have my standards: a sourdough English muffin with butter and just a smattering of raspberry jam; thinly sliced, German brown bread with hazelnuts and five grains, that stays with you well past lunch time; a bowl of Rice Krispies with cold milk splashed in and sliced strawberries. These are [...]