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Posted: 10/22/2009 12:27:42 PM | | Never really been a cookbook guy. I have 2 cookbooks in my possession - A Better Homes and Gardens edition from few years back and The Barbecue Bible by Steven Raichlen. Both were gifts, and I like them - but this is 2009, I'm a cyber cook now. | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/23/2009 5:38:38 AM | | with the cooking shows and internet , i have cut down on buying books. i love rachel ray, the neelys, and paula deen and her sons on foodnetwork. i purchased the neeleys new book, and a cornbread book (over 50 spoon and cornbread recipes) and a grits cookbook. womans day magazine, paula deen and rachel ray magazines teaches you how to plan your meals for a month with ingredients (variety). | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/23/2009 9:06:13 AM | | Im always buying new cook books - latest one is 'Best Ever 500 Recipes' - just need to get through them all now! | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/23/2009 7:28:27 PM | | I bought Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day after hearing an interview with the authors on NPR's cooking program The Splendid Table. I got the basic recipe off the internet and was so impressed with the result that I bought the book. I love it and I've turned several people on to the method. I now bake bread frequently. I live alone and am not a big bread eater, so I make small loaves that last me a day or three. I experiment and make all different kinds - whole wheat, mixed grains, semolina, herb. It changed my life. Now I can have good bread easily whenever I want. | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/23/2009 7:41:59 PM | | I buy Taste of home hard backs, magazines & Pillsbury hard backs ,magazines also, they are simple, nice to look at & to use. | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/23/2009 9:26:22 PM | | My Little Conch Republic Cookbook: Recipes from the Florida Keys and Key West. | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/24/2009 7:34:22 AM | The last book I bought (not second hand) was Australian Women's Weekly 1000 recipes.
I haven't even made one yet! | |
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Posted: 10/25/2009 9:01:13 AM | Oh cool! I'm not a big bread eater, but I'm going to look up that artisan bread book. Thank you arwen52! I love making and baking bread in the fall/winter.
I love cook books! The more pictures the better. I don't like cook books that have text only. I especially love cook books about picnics or summer eating, teas and creme brulee. The last two cook books I bought have nothing to do with any of those categories though lol! Taste of Home Slow Cooker Classics (fantastic book, recommend it to all the slow cooker chefs out there) and Cupcakes Galore (a book with all sorts of cupcake recipes including a section for adults ...****ail cupcakes ... cupcakes made and frosted with some sort of alcohol). | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 10/25/2009 9:02:52 AM | I actually bought a few cookbooks my last time out-
Low GI diet meals
Low GI diet desserts
Curries made simple
and for some odd reason i cannot remember the last one... I think it has something to do with salad lol. Anyhow i got all of these for about 6 dollars, talk about a steal.
I know what you mean about the pictures and such. It's really great! | |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 7:32:23 PM | I will have to look for this cookbook, since I purchased a slow cooker and need help...Taste of Home Slow Cooker Classics (fantastic book, recommend it to all the slow cooker chefs out there)
I recently bought Company Coming Slow Cookers. My only problem, I was daring before I bought this cookbook, and made serious awful mistakes with my slow cooker. I know I can do it, I know I can do it.... | |
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Posted: 10/26/2009 10:54:25 PM | | As a chef I really should have more cookbooks then I do, but the internet has somewhat intervened in the timeless collecting of culinary tomes. The largest, non-teaching, book that I have would have to be the Culinarians Bible, the Escoffier Cookbook. Very big, very old, very french. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 4:44:26 PM | I was in the local Library Thrift Store today and they had a table of free books! So, I couldn't pass by without looking to see what treasures were laying there.
I found an old hardback cookbook, copyright 1929, called "My Best Recipes" by Kate Brew Vaughn.
I have been reading it all afternoon, it is so interesting. I addition to recipes there are advertisements for all kinds of the latest 1929 household stuff, stoves, Kitchen Aid mixers, a complete set of pyrex baking dishes for $5.75. The ads are almost better reading than the recipes.
I'll post some things from it later,, for sure the calf brain fritters for Ms. SS, who, I happen to know loves brains..
What a find,, lol,, and the price can't be beat.
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Posted: 11/6/2009 10:22:09 AM | Fonda!!
I cannot wait! to see that recipe. LOL I am going to have to go into the city to get some brains, though. MMMM I miss them.
I do not even remember the last time I bought a cookbook. Generally that is limited to vintage cookbooks that I find in odd places. Often used book stores, but on occasion a library sale just like you. In the town I used to live in the city library is pretty large and once a year they fill up a big room with tables and tables of books. You bring a paper grocery bag, fill it up for $2. Where I live now the city library is pretty small and I have never seen a book sale or give aways, but I heard they have one every few years. Both towns have large universities with massive libraries. I guess the first town being double in population makes all the difference.
I did run through the store a couple of weeks ago and saw a magazine as I was checking out that had pumpkins on it and said pumpkin recipes. I bought it, and grabbed it to look at before going to bed that evening. I was extremely disappointed. It was just a collection of recipes that I have seen a million times from Pillsbury or something like that and only 2 had pumpkin. I trashed it immediately in a huff! LOL I wasted what $5 - $6? I didn't even look. I didn't want to know. I would have been better off buying one of Martha's magazines and those are a pretentious waste of paper. The photography is nice though.
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 11/6/2009 4:42:52 PM | I posted not too long ago that I had just seen the movie Julie and Julia, and I never buy cookbooks but I decided to stop at Target and see if they had Julia's book, The Art of French Cooking, which they DID and which I purchased, of course. I haven't taken the time since then to just relax and peruse, and I'm only going to attempt what sounds easy (unlike Julie).
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Posted: 11/6/2009 5:09:08 PM | Oh, I have Mastering The Art OF French Cooking Vol. 2, copyright 1970.
I love to just sit at my kitchen bar and read it, thinking OMG! But, I never make any of the recipes, I have become a lazy cook and everything I read takes way too much effort ... 
tb | |
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| latest cookbook you bought?
Posted: 11/6/2009 5:39:47 PM | | Not my latest, but probably the most interesting: The Roman Cookery of Apicius, a Treasury of Gourmet Recipes & Herbal Cookery. I found it in an antique store for $3. Essentially written in the first century it features such fascinating dishes as Rose Hips and Calf's Brains Custard (14 brain recipes, I'll send you the list if you want them SS), Caraway Date Sauce for Poached Fish, Fern Roots and Beets with Almonds, Roast Kid Stuffed with Ginger Sausage, Lungs Apicius (?!), Lentils and Chestnuts in Coriander Wine Sauce, and Tripe with Cinnamon-Nutmeg Sauce. Absolutely fascinating reading. | |
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Posted: 11/9/2009 2:29:32 PM | Mine was Vegan Baking...it was for my daughter who is Vegan...but since I collect Cookbooks...(I have over 200 of them)...I really wanted to keep that Vegan Baking Cookbook...When I see it again I'll buy it for "ME"... | |
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