Kitchen updates? Or remodels? What's in and what's not? Recently, SOUTHERN LIVING offered a list of ten items that are out of date in kitchens and "need" to be rethought.

We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, authors of thirty-six (and counting!) cookbook. Here's our take on the list of updates and remodeling ideas.

We've also got a one-minute cooking tip about shopping your own pantry. And what's making us happy in food this week.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[00:53] Our one-minute cooking tip: bring a bag or tray into your pantry to help carry stuff to your kitchen.

[02:37] Our take on SOUTHERN LIVING's list of ten kitchen remodels and updates.

[20:05] What’s making us happy (and unhappy!) in food this week? Homemade ketchup and bad pizza.

Pickles. Sounds easy, right? But pickles and pickling are more complicated than you might expect.

We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, authors of three dozen cookbooks . . . plus a new one out this summer: COLD CANNING. Small-batch canning without a steam or pressure canner, everything designed to make a few jars for the fridge or freezer. If you'd like a copy, you can buy one with this link.

We've got lots of pickles in our new books, so we'd like to talk more about what a pickle is: what it was traditionally, what it now is, and the ways we've created to simplify the process of making pickles.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[01:11] Our one-minute cooking tip: Don't confuse salt and soy sauce.

[03:21] All about pickles: traditional, room-temp, lacto-fermentation; short-cut, counter-to-fridge fermentation; and refrigerator pickling.

[26:17] What’s making us happy in food this week: Black lava salt bagels and black berry conserve!

Writing a cookbook is only one part of the process. And we should know! We're Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough, authors of over three dozen cookbooks under our own names, plus more for celebrities and GI doctors.

It's a long process to get a cookbook into a bookstore (and into your hands). We thought we'd take the time and explain why it takes about two and a half years for a cookbook to finally be for sale.

Join us for an insider look at the steps to creating and publishing a cookbook. Plus, a one-minute cooking tip. And the answer to "what's making us happy in food this week?"

Would you like your own copy of our latest cookbook, COLD CANNING? Click this link right here.

Here are the segments for this episode of COOKING WITH BRUCE & MARK:

[00:58] Our one-minute cooking tip: Freeze fresh ginger to keep it tasty!

[02:54] An insider look at the many steps to get to a cookbook: from proposal all the way to publication.

[31:08] What’s making us happy in food this week? Citarella for gefilte fish and goose eggs!