Your favorite cookbooks? Recommendations?
Apr 1, 2020 | 12:14 pm
#92
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking was the last cookbook I bought in 2017.
Or since we are in April any of the Myron Mixon competition BBQ books or the Aaron Franklin's BBQ book
Or since we are in April any of the Myron Mixon competition BBQ books or the Aaron Franklin's BBQ book
Apr 1, 2020 | 12:35 pm
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This is a tough one for me, as I've probably got close to 200 cookbooks? My current go to is Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden. Vegetable centered, amazing recipes. The Lucky Peach 101 Easy Asian Recipes is fantastic, and very reliable. I love anything by the Honey & Co folks, who run my favorite restaurant in London. They are also Levantine recipes, although I find them somewhat less fussy than the Ottolenghi books. I have all of those as well, but find that the ingredient lists tend to be long and the recipes themselves are a bit more complex than I'm willing to take on midweek. They're good for weekend project recipes, though.
Apr 1, 2020 | 2:17 pm
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking was the last cookbook I bought in 2017.
Or since we are in April any of the Myron Mixon competition BBQ books or the Aaron Franklin's BBQ book
Or since we are in April any of the Myron Mixon competition BBQ books or the Aaron Franklin's BBQ book
mastering the art of French cooking (child)
The food lab (Lopez-alt)
the complete Robuchon
french laundry and ad Hoc at home (Keller)
family meal (Adria)
Apr 1, 2020 | 3:07 pm
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I don't know if you are watching this season's Top Chef but it is in LA and she was a guest judge.
Apr 1, 2020 | 3:52 pm
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Not a fan of the Steven Raichlen BBQ books as they are too complicated and along the Cook's Illustrated/ATK/Milk Street style which I really don't have time for. And I for sure will now not buy a book where
Christopher Kimball earns a royalty.
Oh, the Sara Moulton book series is fairly good. 2002: Cooks at Home and 2016: Home Cooking 101 are my preferred ones to look up.
Apr 1, 2020 | 5:04 pm
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Can't tell if you are looking for technique, visual inspiration, of delving more deeply into a cuisine, so here are some varied recommendations (I have about 150 cookbooks, myself) and my go to books (forgive the lack of quotes)
Reference
Reference
- Madeline Kamman: The New Making of a Cook
- Jacques Pepin: Techniques (the original print, not the revised edition)
- CIA: The Professional Chef
- Harold McGee: On food and Cooking
- Deborah Madison: Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
- Jacques Pepin: Essential Pepin
- Judy Rogers: The Zuni Cookbook
- Anthony Boudrain: Les Halles Cookbook
- Thomas Keller: French Library Cookbook (talk about food porn!)
- Fuscia Dunlop: Land of Plenty (Sichuan)
- David Thompson: Thai Food
- Mark Bittman: How to Cook Everything (a beginner book, but so many good 'how tos' that I open it often)
- Ruth Riechel: The Gourmet Cookbook
- Marcella Hazan: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
- Julia Child: Pretty much anything and everything
- Ina Garden: Particularly her first couple Barefoot Contessa cookbooks. They are spendy for the amount of recipes, but the photos are beautiful and her recipes work.
- Time Life: Foods of the World (set, out of print)
- Killeen and Germon: Cucina Simpatica
- Todd English: The Olives Table
Apr 2, 2020 | 7:57 am
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Apr 2, 2020 | 8:06 am
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[Gwenth Paltrow's]book is good and has some very yummy recipes.
[Gwenth Paltrow's]book is good and has some very yummy recipes.
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Apr 5, 2020 | 3:46 pm
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I do not own many cookbooks but Gordon Ramsay Makes it Easy is a pretty good one IMO, but many of his recipes can be found online so I don't know if it's worth getting.
Apr 12, 2020 | 10:33 pm
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Lior Sercarz is a good friend of Michael Solomanov and Adeena Sussman's; the three of them often collaborate on various projects. Since you like Mastering Spice, I think that you will enjoy Solomonov's
and
, and Sussman's
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