Mary Chamberlin Free Online Soup Classes
4/05/2020
Join Mary on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 2pm for her online "Home Chef's Class"! Click here for more details.
San Jose Mercury News, Mother’s Day:
What Bay Area restaurant chefs and cookbook authors want to eat
By Jessica Yadegaran, Bay Area News Group
4/26/2021
Mary Chamberlin's six kids will certainly shower her with food and love. When they gather on Mother's Day, they'll be preparing a four-course Mediterranean meal for the Carmel cooking instructor and retired chef, starting with a Sicilian Caprese Salad and ending with a classic Italian dessert, Cassata Siciliana. Yes, the recipes are Mom's.
"This is what they have to make for me," Chamberlin says, laughing. "My son, Marshall, doesn't even live here but he'll ll be making the Parma iI Pollo in Kansas City in my honor." They're deeply meaningful recipes, too, culled from Chamberlin's decades in the food industry, both as owner-caterer of Fremont's popular Mission Deli, which she ran for 17 years until selling it in 1990, and as a cookbook author. (The Parma il Pollo is actually Marshall Coleman's favorite; he asks for it every year for his birthday and Chamberlin flies to Kansas to make it for him). All the recipes can be found in Chamberlin's new cookbook, "The Traveling Cookbook: Discovered Recipes from Around the World" (Mary Chamberlin Cookbooks, $45), which provides a tapestry of flavors from across the Mediterranean and beyond. The cookbook is spiral-bound and opens flat for easy viewing.
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NewsRadio 1330 KNSS, The Good Life
5/03/14
Interview with Mary Chamberlin on The Good Life radio show.
Santa Cruz Good Times, Mary Chamberlin’s Cookbook—The Traveling Soup Pot
6/26/2013
I will never forget having dinner at renowned chef Mary Chamberlin’s house in Carmel in 2009. A friend had invited me to see Julie & Julia, the comedy-drama movie about Julie Child, and then to a Julia Child-themed dinner in Chamberlin’s spacious abode. Not only did Chamberlin make the best French onion soup I have ever eaten, but she prepared enough for around 100 people. Her “dream kitchen,” as she calls it, was featured in Better Homes and Gardens magazine, so guests who didn’t fit into the dining room and elsewhere were very happy to eat in the place where she prepares her culinary wonders. The cookbook is a journey through many lands—with soup recipes from close to 20 countries. A foreword by Michel Escoffier, great-grandson to perhaps the world’s most innovative chef, Auguste Escoffier, highly recommends Chamberlin’s book—and that says plenty right there.
Wisconsin Bookwatch review of The Traveling Soup Pot
5/6/2013
The May 2013 issue of the Wisconsin Bookwatch features a review for The Traveling Soup Pot. This review also appears in the May 2013 issue of the online review magazine, the Internet Bookwatch.
Read the wonderful review below:
The Traveling Soup Pot is a master’s collection of delectable international soup recipes inspired and influenced by Chef Mary Chamberlin, along with her husband, Captain Roy Chamberlin and the legendary Michel Escoffier, descendant of Auguste Escoffier, also known as “the King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings.”
Here are over 100 imaginative soup recipes from global sources, arranged by area of origin. We have Mock Bird’s nest Soup from China, Alan Wong’s Red & Yellow Tomato Soup from Hawaii, Chicken Mulligatawny Soup from India, Portuguese Fish Stew, Swedish Soup with Dumplings, Lobster Bisque and Crabmeat & Brie Soup from France, Chilled Vichyssoise from England, Irish Stew, Leek & Potato Soup from Wales, chilled soups, Island soups, Mexicali Tortilla Soup, and finally Clam Chowder New California style, and many more from the American continent and others of hybrid or mixed origins.
Recipes are divided into chapters based on origin, or type, such as chilled soups. An interesting 10th chapter offers “From Hobo to Must Go Soups,” a combination of upscale versions of Hobo Stew, Mulligan Stew, and leftover miracle worker soup.
Standard measurements and clear, step by step instructions make these fabulous soups accessible to all. A bit of culinary history is woven into each recipe, fascinating details that make the experience of offering of The Traveling Soup Pot all the more savory. Here indeed are fabulous gourmet and comfort food classic soups for every taste and budget.
This edition is also spectacularly presented, with a special illustration of a Ford Tri-Motor airplane from the Roaring 20’s on the cover, carrying a wandering, giant covered soup pot! Colored photos also decorate the chapters and further inspire the gourmet soup chef, amateur or not.
Midwest Book Review
"The Traveling Soup Pot" is a master's collection of delectable international soup recipes inspired and influenced by Chef Mary Chamberlin, along with her husband, Captain Roy Chamberlin and the legenday Michel Escoffier, decendant of Auguste Escoffier, also known as "the King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings". Here are over 100 imaginative soup recipes from global sources, arranged by area of origin. We have Mock Bird's Nest Soup from China, Alan Wong's Red & Yellow Tomato Soup from Hawaii, Chicken Mulligatawny Soup from India, Portugese Fish Stew, Swedish Soup with Dumplings, Lobster Bisque and Crabmeat & Brie Soup from France, Chilled Vichyssoise from England, Irish Stew, Leek & Potato Soup from Wales, chilled soups, Island Soups, Mexicali Tortilla Soup, and finally Clam Chowder New California style, and many more from the American continent and others of hybrid or mixed origins. recipes are divided into chapters based on origin, or type, such as chilled soups. An interesting 10th cahpter offers "From Hobo to Must Go Soups," a combination of upscale versions of Hobo Stew, Mulligan Stew, and leftover miracle worker soup. Standard measurements and clear, step-by-step instructions make these fabulous soups accessible to all. A bit of culinary history is woven into each recipe, fascinating details that make the experience of offering of "The Traveling Soup Pot" all the more savory. Here indeed are fabulous gourmet and comfort food classic soups for every taste and budget. This edition is also spectacularly presented, with a special illustration of a Ford Tri-Motor airplane from the Roaring 20's on the cover, carrying a wandering, giant covered soup pot! Colored photos also decorate the chapters and further inspire the gourmet soup chef, amateur or not.
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Midwest Book Review #2
Dear Publicist:
I'm very pleased to inform you that the May 2013 issue of our library newsletter "Wisonsin Bookwatch" features "The Traveling Soup Pot, A Savory Journey Through Many Lands". A tear sheet is enclosed for your records.
This review also appears in the May 2013 issue of our online book review magazine "Internet Bookwatch"; and has been posted with the Thomson-Gale interactive CD-ROM series "Book Review Index" which is published four times yearly for academic, corporate, and public library systems. Additionally, this review will be archived on our Midwest Book Review website for the next five years at www.midwestbookreview.com.
Incidntally, although our bylaws prohibit accepting money from authors or publishers (in order to avoid any conflict of interest issues), we did amend it to allow authors and publishers who wanted to make a gesture of support and appreciation for what we try to do here at the Midwest Book Review in behalf of the small press community to donate postage stamps "for the cause". So if you'd like to donate some postage stamps to the Midwest Book Review, feel free (but not obligated!)
I look forward to your next title!
Sincerely,
James A. Cox
Editor-in-Chief
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