There are cookbooks that simply feed the body and then there are those that try to feed something deeper. Healing With Food was born from years spent cooking in a live-in recovery setting, where the kitchen became more than a workplace. It became a mirror. Every day, Chef Joseph Goldman watched how a shared meal could ease fear, bridge silence, and slowly remind people that they were still worthy of care.

This book gathers the recipes and reflections that grew out of that work. Comforting breakfasts that bring calm to chaotic mornings, hearty dinners that taste like safety, and desserts that prove joy still belongs at the table. Alongside those recipes are stories. Not polished success tales, but honest glimpses of what it means to serve, to rebuild, and to find hope through food.

Technically, Healing With Food functions as a true culinary guide. Whether you’re a home cook or a professional, you’ll find sections that translate chef-level precision into approachable steps. It’s as much about teaching confidence as it is about following a formula.

Chef Joseph writes not as a guru, but as a worker who has spent his life on the line, who knows that food heals because he’s seen it happen, one plate at a time. His philosophy is simple: good cooking teaches resilience, humility, and gratitude. In a world obsessed with speed and spectacle, Healing With Food invites readers to slow down, season with intention and remember why we cook in the first place. To care for one another.

“Meals became more than nourishment. They were moments of connection, dignity, and care.”
— Healing With Food

Healing With Food

A Pinch of Comfort| A Dash of Hope

Recipes for a Journey of Recovery and Renewal

If Healing With Food was about comfort, Woodfire Fantasies is about curiosity... That pull to explore what happens when flame meets flavor, when patience meets passion. Chef Joseph Goldman takes his grounded approach to nourishment and turns up the heat, inviting readers to discover the beauty and balance found in the heart of a wood-fired oven. This is where food becomes movement, feeling and rhythm. Cooking not just as craft, but as connection.

Inside these pages, Goldman walks through the precision and poetry of pizza-making with the calm authority of someone who’s been burned, blistered, and baptized by fire. He breaks down hydration ratios, fermentation timing and the delicate chemistry that transforms flour into art. You’ll learn to read the heat, listen to the dough and coax flavor from smoke instead of hiding from it. Every recipe, from traditional margherita to wilder, dreamlike creations is written with the kind of care that comes from deep respect for both technique and instinct.

But this isn’t just a manual. Woodfire Fantasies is an experience. An exploration of desire, intuition and the delicious tension between control and surrender. Between the recipes are stories and reflections that smolder with humor and heat. Moments where passion spills over the edge of the pan and the line between chef and artist blurs. The writing flirts with the flame the way a cook does with the edge of the oven: close enough to feel it, careful enough not to burn. It’s proof that cooking, at its most alive, is as much about what you feel as what you taste.

Goldman calls it magic. That moment when ordinary ingredients become something transcendent. The dough rises, the cheese melts, the crust blisters and suddenly, you’ve created something alive. In that space, cooks become wizards of heat, enchantresses of balance, keepers of a flame that feeds both hunger and imagination. It’s part science, part sorcery and all heart.

In the end, Woodfire Fantasies isn’t just about pizza. It’s about connection. Between people, between patience and fire. Between the comfort we crave and the risks we take to create it. Whether you’re baking for two or feeding a crowd, this book invites you to light the fire, trust your hands and fall in love with the process all over again.

WOODFIRE FANTASIES

Smoke, Heat, and Seduction

A Pizza Manifesto

Where Crust Gets Crude, Cheese Gets Lewd, and Every Slice Comes with a Moan

If Healing With Food fed the soul, Balls Deep feeds the part of us that just wants to play. It’s the other side of the same coin. Less therapy, more thrill, less quiet reflection, more heat, laughter and a little sauce on your shirt. Chef Joseph Goldman turns the act of rolling meatballs into a celebration of what food really does best. It brings people together, breaks down walls and reminds us that pleasure and connection belong in the same kitchen.

This book may make your Nonna blush, but she’ll still be asking for seconds. Balls Deep is equal parts humor and technique. A cheeky, full-flavored dive into the art of the perfect ball. Inside, you’ll find recipes that span continents and cultures, from classic Italian beef-and-pork blends simmered low and slow to lamb koftas, seafood bites and even dessert “sweetballs.” Each one is built on real culinary foundations: fat ratios, binder structure, caramelization, temperature control and the balance of acid & salt that turns comfort food into something transcendent.

Between the recipes, Goldman serves up stories from the line. The burns, the jokes, the 3 a.m. victories when the sauce finally hits right. It’s a kitchen diary splattered with tomato and truth, proving that cooking at its best is equal parts skill and chaos. He teaches the fundamentals of texture, heat and flavor the way only a working chef can.... with grit, laughter and total honesty.

And then there’s the magic. Balls Deep reminds us that cooking is its own kind of spellcraft. A little science, a little instinct and a lot of heart. When you mix, sear, season, and serve, you’re not just following steps; you’re shaping transformation. In Goldman’s world, cooks become wizards of the skillet, sorceresses of the sauce, conjurers of comfort. It’s a delicious kind of alchemy. One that turns raw ingredients into something that feeds both hunger and happiness.

In the end, Balls Deep isn’t just about food. It’s about passion for craft, for connection and for the simple joy of getting your hands messy in the pursuit of something delicious. It’s a reminder that healing can happen through a quiet meal or through a loud one, but either way, it happens when we gather, cook and share.

Balls Deep

A Meatball Manifesto
Where the flavor gets dirty, hands get saucy, and the balls rule the table

In every kitchen, there’s a moment when heat meets hunger. When something ordinary becomes irresistible. Cluck Around & Find Out captures that moment, seared and served with confidence. It’s a love letter to the bird that feeds nations, heals hearts and tempts every appetite it touches.

Chef Joseph Goldman invites you into the seductive side of poultry. Not through gimmicks or fluff, but through pure technique, texture and flavor. This isn’t just about chicken, it’s about transformation. The crackle of skin that whispers of caramelized perfection. The scent of rosemary, smoke and rendered fat hanging heavy in the air. The slow slide of juices down a golden crust that makes even the quietest kitchen hum.

Each chapter takes you deeper into the craft. From tender, buttery breasts that practically melt at the touch, to thighs that surrender to the fork, to legs that promise satisfaction with every bite. Along the way, you’ll learn the secrets of moisture, the balance between salt & seduction and the rhythm of the pan. Because real cooking, like desire, is a dance between heat, patience and instinct.

Between recipes, you’ll find stories that simmer with humor and heat. Little winks from the line, tales of temptation and the delicious chaos that comes from chasing perfection. The tone is daring but refined: bold enough to make you blush, smart enough to make you hungry.

With over a hundred recipes spanning roasted, fried, braised, smoked and wood-fired perfection, Cluck Around & Find Out celebrates the bird in every way imaginable. From brined wings that demand a little finger-licking to butter-basted thighs that test your restraint, this book proves that comfort food can flirt, tease and still deliver culinary precision.

Cluck Around & Find Out is bold, beautiful and unapologetically alive. A modern culinary manifesto for anyone who believes passion belongs in the kitchen as much as it does anywhere else.

So roll up your sleeves. Preheat your oven. Trust your hands, your nose, your timing. Because in this kitchen, there’s only one rule. If you’re curious enough to cluck around, you just might find out what flavor really means.

[Coming Soon →]

Cluck Around & Find Out

Juicy Breasts, Crispy Thighs & Legs Too Good to Let Go

A Poultry Manifesto