| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/8/2008 11:09:56 PM | | As for favorite cookbook authors I have to say Alton brown and Jacques Pepin are the best at teaching how to cook. The best recipies come from Mr Food, Betty Crocker healthy cooking or the very best recipies are shared from friends and family | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/8/2008 11:10:20 PM | Ok ladies and gentlemen I have a cookbook collection barr none. I have my regular cookbooks and then I have my signed cookbook edition. In the latter and even trumping the first collection it has to be Thomas Keller and Emeril Legasse. Before you start I dont care to hear any Emeril bashing. You have to admire a man that can cook and has built the wealth he has at 48 years of age from restaurants. I have eaten at two of his restaurants and the food was spectacular at both along with the service each time ...  | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/9/2008 8:17:52 AM | So much for the computer in the kitchen...I guess a laptop would do it.....
My kitchen is ten feet from my desk so....
Remember when they said we were going to be a paperless society?
Damned more paper than I can imagine...now..
but to the cooking thing...I hate to try a recipe, and go through all the b.s. of copying it, etc. and have it turn out terribly...So before the Boys came home I found a pear/ginger cake that actually did turn out well, but there I was going back and forth from screen to kitchen, my printer is out of commission, felt and I'm sure looked like an idiot....
Wow....a collection of signed Books ...mine is small in that department.....
And Fish Cookbooks, just found a used one on Tinned Fish Recipes, and its turning out pretty well...out of Vancouver
I am in the process of downloading and then I think I'll put them on disk according to the category.....Gotta use my 4 mg stick and go to the library and print off if they are that fantastic.....
I'm a very p.t. Personal Chef...now in my dotage' Hah ! and my customers eat absolutely anything I concoct.....
p.s. if you ever want to learn how to make real French Pastry. La Technique...J. Pepin is the absolute best....great Photo's step by step | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/9/2008 9:25:32 AM | The most indispensable piece of add-on software I've ever had on my home computer(s) since I began using one is
"ClipMate" from thornsoft.com (free 30-day trial , and no, I'm not affiliated /no way/no how)
Turns copy/paste into a scrapbook on steroids .
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/9/2008 2:51:02 PM | The Red Rose Cookbook, and Fannie Farmer are the staples, in my house.
Love Martha Stwart, Paula Dean, Donna Hay and if you are Canadian, check out the CityLine website......always a good treat on there! | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 1/9/2008 6:00:04 PM | Hmmm...I have categories, rather than a Top 5 (in no particular order, and depending on my mood):
* Canadian-style Comfort: Jean Paré. Sometimes she uses quickie ingredients but I just augment the recipes as necessary.
* Mexican: Diane Kennedy. Already said, and with good reason!
* Thai: Wandee Young & Byron Ayanoglu. "The Young Thailand Cookbook".
* Italian: Various authors. A coil-bound book published by the library society in my hometown in BC, otherwise know as "Little Italy".
* Vegan International: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (phew!). The book is called "The Higher Taste: A Guide to Gourment Vegetarian Cooking and a Karma-Free Diet". Some Hare Krishna guy handed it to me on the street, free-of-charge.
I'm also really curious about Padma Lakshmi's "Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet". I heard her promoting the book on a talk show recently--she sounds like my kind of chef! Has anyone tried the recipes yet?
PS: I'm NOT vegan...I'm 12 per cent carnivore, because last time I checked, I have canine teeth. It's important for me to mention this, because I have the uncanny knack of having men suddenly turn vegetarian on me, only because I've mentioned that I do some vegetarian cooking. I have no idea why this happens...but it's happened a few times now...*shrug*. | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 3/29/2008 7:18:48 AM | My favorite cookbooks-the first 2 have contributing authors (everyday people)
Cajun Men Cook
Cooking On The Bayou
A Taste of Cuba- Creen
A Taste of Old Cuba- O'Higgins
How to Grill- Raichlen | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 6/28/2008 2:00:08 PM | -I am old school, so My beautiful Grandmothers are # 1.They both gave me their extensive private collection recipes on index cars.
-I love the updated Joy of cooking. I have never had anything fail out of there, ever.
-Old school: Company's coming series. Easy, Breezy, but as I say, down home style.
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 6/28/2008 2:35:34 PM | Lidia Bastianich.. Anything she makes on TV, makes you drool, it looks so good.
Julia Child - Way to Cook
Giuliano Hazan ( Marcella's son). - The Classic Pasta Cookbook- my bible
Anne Sommerville - Fields of Greens
Nick Malgieri - How to Bake | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 6/30/2008 6:39:16 PM | My Mom's recipe box -- holds both grandma's recipes plus all of mom's wonderful treasures..
Plus my family made their own cookbook a few years back all of the family members submitted their favorite receipes and it was "published" mmmm all those wonderful summer pot luck meals are in 1 book now :) | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 7/4/2008 6:37:24 PM | | All my favorite ones are the ones from Fire Departments, Schools and Churchs. I have them from NC and LA. We are putting one together right now from military mothers all around the US. I think that one will turn out good too. | |
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 7/4/2008 6:46:33 PM | My very favorite cookbook author is Charmaine Solomon. Her books include the Complete Asian Cookbook
The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook
Indian Cooking (and she sent it to me autographed along with spices she grew!)
Love and a Wooden Spoon
Since 1980, my cooking Bible has always been
"Confessions of a Seaky Organic Cook" by Jane Kinderlehrer.
But let us not forget "White Trash Cooking" by Ernest Matthew Mickler
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| Out of all your cookbooks Name the top five Authors !
Posted: 7/5/2008 10:11:09 AM | I'm going to take the question literally, as asked. It doesn't ask which books, but which "authors." Excuse me, "Authors!" I take that to mean the quality of the writing is as important as the content.
With that in mind, I'd have to start with M.F.K. Fisher, easily the best writer on food and cooking in English. Her How to Cook a Wolf is still the best book I know about eating well on a tight budget. She wrote 30 more besides, and the dozen I've read so far are all wonderful.
One or two people mentioned James Beard, and rightly so. While some of his cookbooks are standards, I learned as much from - and enjoyed even more - his foodie memoirs, like Delights and Prejudices. He pulls his personal favorite recipes from his storied life in an amusing and graceful style and describes local and personal specialties too quirky (though delightful) for his recipe books.
There's hardly a recipe in it, but Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen is always close to hand when I'm trying something new. There isn't another book like it. Every ingredient I ever encountered - and every technique - is described and explained exhaustively, right down to the molecular interactions that change textures and flavors. If I want to understand what's going on in my skillet, I turn first to McGee. His prose is so crisp and pellucid that I sometimes pick him up for pleasure. But, first and foremost, he has made me a much wiser cook than I could have been without him.
Fanny Farmer has to make the list. The Joy of Cooking is more than a standard American cookbook. It's an icon of our traditions and aspirations, and is arranged and written to accompany a novice cook through a lifetime of challenge and discovery, from the simplest, foolproof meals on a budget through party-making masterpieces. There's something about Farmer's style that has given courage and comfort to the most timid beginners for generations. She captured the American table for everyone to enjoy.
One more? Only one? I guess I can skip Brillat-Savarin, since Fisher translated and commented extensively on him, a pig in her blanket. I'm tempted to choose Irene Kuo, who taught me to cook real Chinese in an ordinary kitchen - something I thought impossible, or James Peterson, whose Sauces is so exhaustive and tantalizing that I'm afraid I won't live long enough to fully appreciate it.
Then there are all those church 'n clubwoman cookbooks and their wonderfully diverse authors. I have a pile of those myself, but one of my favorites is online. It doesn't appear to be updated recently, but soulfoodcookbook.com is the shinizzle, especially if you sometimes crave your greens and cornbread, as I do. It's a delicious reminder that the world's greatest culinary traditions all started with ingenious poor people who made the most of nearly nothing.
But I'm going to go with another collective volume, from a similar tradition. The Yankee Cookbook, collected and edited by Imogene Wolcott, captures more than traditional New England recipes, but the very language and habits of "Down East" when it was the center of American life. Many of the recipes in it I'll never try (Sea Moss Blanc Mange!? Coot Stew!?!?). But others are irresistible, and I don't find them anywhere else, like "Tipsy Parson" and "Mistress Howe's Clam and Chicken pie." Besides, where else would I learn what are a piggin, a skeel, a losset, or bloaters? Wolcott put the Yankee in me, deliciously.
Cheers!
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