Favorite cookbooks?
I met some friends at Barnes and Noble yesterday to look at cookbooks. We are all tired of cooking the same things over and over, and were looking for inspiration, which we had a hard time finding.I...
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I love to bake, and although I have a decent collection of cookbooks, I always seem to use my Good Housekeeping Baking cookbook. I love so many of the recipes...
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Although I like to invent my own recipes I find the following culinary books intriguing:Larousse Gastronomique (my favourite on EARTH!)The New Best RecipeSaucesCulinary ArtistryAll About BraisingThe...
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Molecular Gastronomy? I haven't heard of that one. Hmmm. Sounds like pretty detailed cooking.
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Yeah, it is. I am obsessed with it. I instruct cooking classes and do home catering so it's sort of in my blood, too! Food science interests me a great deal - it's neat to know how and why things work...
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batraveler,Do you have "The Elements of Taste" by Gray Kunz and Peter Kaminsky? It's very scientific.
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Actually, I do not! Wow - that sounds great. Thank you for the suggestion! I will look into it on Amazon. I always look for reasons to order more books, like it's two months until my birthday, ten...
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I don't know if Elaine will come back to this thread, but after our blintzes and farmers cheese discussion yesterday, I was flooded with a childhood memory. Growing up in NYC, our local grocery store...
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Once I came upon "I hate to cook book" still have it! The recipes are not great, just for every day, like "toss meat and veggies in a slow cooker and curl up on a couch with a book". I keep it for fun...
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I would just like to make it clear that my cookbooks are NOT up for grabs. Not on loan, not gifts, not no how, not no way.OK. Now we've got that clear, let me address the original question. What...
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Some of you may be sitting on valuable cookbook.In 1992, the cookbook: Someone's in the Kitchen with Dayton's Marshall Fields' Hudson's was printed and sold for $19.95. I bought a copy and over the...
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This is a hard question for for 2 reasons.1. I may only use one or 2 recipes from a given book.2. I usually adapt the recipes anyway and after making it once or twice do it without a book.Having said...
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liz, thanks for that childhood memoryI didn't grow up in NYC but my mom did (in Brooklyn) and I'm sure she'd say that all that farmer cheese was for blintzes.
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How intersting and different the publishing of cookbooks must be from country to country. I have never heard of most of the cooks that Sheila listed.Who is Nick Nairn? We may need another ask the...
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I've gotten some good ideas from this thread. Thanks!We're still learning a lot about cooking beyond the meat and potatoes both my husband and I grew up with. My husband has discovered that he really...
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Liz, Nick Nairn is a Scottish TV chef who had a very good restaurant in the Trossachs, where there are no people. So he moved the restaurant to Glasgow, and then split up with his wife (I CANNOT...
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Here are several recipes from Nick Nairn's Ready Steady Cook book:www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/fo...Nick+Nairn
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Laura! Glad you liked the sharpener..and glad we kept Ed occupied for a bit!!I am always getting book club offers with 4 or 5 free books and no obligation! I get the books and sell them on eBay! Any...
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Interesting article in today's (3-5-06) NYTimes titled The Way We Eat: The British Invasion about Nigel Slater and his new cookbook. Since Sheila talked about Slater earlier in this thread and I had...
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I made one of Rachel Ray's recipes once and my dh hated it. I heard she is doing a talk show next year. Anyway, I don't like the food network chefs either. I like Cooking Light magazine and find some...
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Back in 1966, every week for twelve weeks I bought a volume of the Woman's Day Encylopedia of Cookery for $.99 at my local Supermarket. I have kept them all these years and find them an invaluable...
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