Cookbooks
New York hot tip - Strand has "It" cookbook of the year Silver Spoon for 30 bones.
Any well-loved cookbooks? Good ones for beginning gastronomes? Anyone share my love for children's cookbooks from the 1950's?
Any well-loved cookbooks? Good ones for beginning gastronomes? Anyone share my love for children's cookbooks from the 1950's?
posted by Jack at 5:04 PM
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This is not a cookbook precisely, but I love my On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee. It is the definitive text on food science and history and a very interesting reference work. You will learn all about why your favorite foods do what they do (eg what is going on with eggs??).
I just picked up Living And Eating by John Pawson and Annie Bell (photography by Christopher Kicherer) and it's pretty neat. It has some lengthy passages on the philosophy of cooking and also why your kitchen is inadequate, especially compared to John Pawson's spacious and well-appointed kitchen, which is how yours should be. It is as yet unclear whether I will actually use their recipe for aïoli.
My grandmother's recipe for blintzes is in a Jewish cookbook.
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