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Kibbegirl
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Username: Kibbegirl
Post Number: 31
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 7:20 am: | 
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My hubby enjoys cooking (time permitted) and hinted that our home could use a solid cookbook that has an array of recipes, including southern to intn'l dishes. Anyone know of a cookbook like this? Thanks a lot! |
Cedar
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Username: Cedar
Post Number: 118
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 9:01 am: |
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Check out Southern Living's 2003 Annual Cookbook. (It contains all the recipes published in the magazine in 2003.) While it's obviously got the southern angle covered, it has some other very interesting recipes, as well. I was given this book for Christmas and am having a lot of fun with it!
Semi-related: Does anyone have back issues of Family Circle? There was an issue earlier this year with some great crockpot (or slow cooker) recipes that I misplaced. If anyone has this, please privateline me! Thanks. |
papayagirl
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Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 185
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 9:29 am: |
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I'm a cookbook addict, so it's hard for me to recommend just one that covers everything. Of course, there's always the Joy of Cooking. Other than that, i'd recommend The Best Recipe, which is put out by the editors of Cooks Illustrated. If you dig reading about the science behind each recipe and all of the trial and error that lead them to use butter instead of oil, etc., it's a great resource.
And if you're interested in getting multiple books, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan is a fantastic place to start for italian cooking. Some of her recipes have only 3 ingredients, and they come out 10x better than other recipes i've found that call for 20. |
finnegan
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Username: Finnegan
Post Number: 86
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 9:37 am: |
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My single favorite cookbook has to be The Frog Commissary Cookbook, from the restaurants of the same name in Philly. Good variety of recipes, outstanding desserts, nice variety of classic and interesting foods. I just checked and it's on Amazon, so it's still in print - I think I got my first copy almost 20 years ago.
Cooks Illustrated is also just the best cooking magazine (I think it comes out 6x@ year.) Produced by some of the scientists of the food world (in the style of Howard McGee) they'll make 20-30 versions of a recipe, varying the proportions of ingredients until the result is perfect. They are beginning to produce series of their recipes, like "Pasta," or "Great Desserts," and might have one you'd like to try. See here: http://www.cooksillustrated.com/
Good luck! |
naborly
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Username: Naborly
Post Number: 313
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:26 pm: |
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I like Cook's Illustrated magazine too. No advertising, 6 issues per year, beautiful drawings, interesting articles and, of course lots of great recipes. Many of the recipes are for "classic" dishes -- the best iced tea, beer-can chicken, Caesar salad, lasagna, chili, butter cookies. I would recommend a subscription.
The Cook's Illustrated cookbook, "The Best Recipe", gives good backround info on the foods, but some of the recipes are overly complex and not to my liking (guess that's a problem with any cookbook)and the index is visually confusing. |
papayagirl
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Username: Papayagirl
Post Number: 186
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 1:35 pm: |
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naborly - The Best Recipe is simply an organized compilation of recipes that originally appeared in Cooks Illustrated magazine over the years. So I don't follow why you would recommend a subscription to the mag, but find the recipes in the book to be overly complex.
The index, OTOH, is indeed confusing. The first thing i did when i bought the book was sit down and mark up the index so it's easier to follow. |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 424
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 1:49 pm: |
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The Best Recipe is great. At least I think so. I've never had a bad experience with a recipe from it.
If your husband likes international cuisines you might want to try Shelia Luken's (Lunken? I am at work, so I can't check out my cookbooks for the right author) Around the World Cookbook. For basics, I rely on my grandmother's Fanny Farmer Cookbook, I really don't care for the newer version. Joan Nathan has excellent Jewish cookbooks. If you like vegeterian cooking, I heartily reccomend the Moosewood cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest.
"Hi, I'm bella and I am a cookbook addict. I think my problem started with my mother, she has, the last time I checked, 80 cookbooks, and she still buys more. We have a theory, since the two of us are usually dieting: cookbooks are the pornography of dieters."  |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 986
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 3:29 pm: |
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Fannie Farmer..for all your basics and then some; Barbecue Bible, Stephen Raichlen, if you grill -- its a must; any Ina Garten cookbooks are great too, with great variety. |
gretchen
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Username: Gretchen
Post Number: 109
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 3:39 pm: |
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My favorite everyday cookbook is The New Basics. I'm actually on my second copy because my first one was so trashed from regular use. |
Pippi
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Username: Pippi
Post Number: 60
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 11:35 am: |
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I recommend The Joy of cooking. I am not very proficient in the kitchen and I find the recipes written so clearly. It also has a huge array of cuisines. Apparently the most recent addition really expanded on various ethnic food. There's also a book called How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. I have heard many cooking afficionados swear by it.... |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 3075
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 1:38 pm: |
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"How to Cook Everything" does, in fact, live up to its title. My copy is (almost) fallen apart. |
Maplewoody
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Username: Maplewoody
Post Number: 506
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2004 - 3:38 pm: |
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Why buy a cookbook when there's the WWW?
http://www.epicurean.com/exchange/index.html |
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