Cookbooks We Love

November 17, 2007

Cradle of Flavor

by James Oseland

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In Cradle of Flavor, author James Oseland takes the reader on a culinary journey to Indonesia, Manaysia and Singapore. Called the Spice Islands and located between Australia and S. Asia, these are the native home to such beloved culinary flavor enhancers as nutmeg, cloves, galangal and…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/17/2007
Categories • Regional, International
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November 15, 2007

Nigella Express

by Nigella Lawson

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We love Nigella for her soulful, feel-good comfort food, her cooking evokes happy memories and her love of food is infectious. In Nigella Express, the companion to her Food Network show of the same name, she adds a dash of realism to her solid repertoire and dishes…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/15/2007
Categories • Celebrity Chef, RestaurantQuick & Easy, Basic
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November 12, 2007

No Reservations

by Anthony Bourdain

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If I have a single virtue it’s curiosity. It’s a big world. Far bigger than I’d ever imagined - even as a boy reading adventure stories about pirates and castaways. I don’t know where I’m going or when I’ll stop. But I know what I’ve seen. I saw this...”

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/12/2007
Categories • Celebrity Chef, RestaurantFood Writing, Literary
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Christmas 101

by Rick Rodgers

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Christmas 101 by Rick Rodgers, author of many cookbooks including Thanksgiving 101, is a handy little book chock full of recipes and strategies for making the holiday season funfilled, memorable and delicious. These are his recipes that he has used over the years for his catering…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/12/2007
Categories • Entertaining, Occasions
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Bistro Laurent Tourondel

by Laurent Tourondel, Michele Scicolone

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All too seldom does a restaurant inspired cookbook truly capture the magic of the restaurant itself. In his cookbook Bistro Laurent Tourondel, acclaimed chef Laurent Tourondel manages to do just that for no less than six of his namesake restaurants. BLT features over 150 bistro style recipes from…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/12/2007
Categories • Celebrity Chef, RestaurantRegional, International
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November 06, 2007

The Bacon Cookbook

by James Villas

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Being one who wholeheartedly believes everything tastes better than bacon and that a few chunks of fried bacon can turn the simple into the sublime, then how could we not love a cookbook that features bacon in every recipe in some form and opens with…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/06/2007
Categories • Meat, Poultry, BBQ
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My Last Supper

by Melanie Duneau

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If you were fated to die tommorrow what would you want for your last meal? It’s an amusing game mulling over such details as the food, the setting, whom to share this momentous ocassion with and one not surprisingly played by many chefs. Acclaimed photographer Melanie Duneau…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/06/2007
Categories • Celebrity Chef, RestaurantSpecialty, Misc
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November 05, 2007

Cook with Jamie

by Jamie Oliver

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Jamie Oliver is on a mission to change the way we cook, in a good way. He wants us to eat well and make better choices in the food shops and in the process improve our lives and the world we live in. And, with Cook with Jamie, his 7th book he gives us no excuses…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/05/2007
Categories • All Purpose, GeneralCelebrity Chef, Restaurant
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November 02, 2007

Essence of Chocolate

by John Scharffenberger, Robert Steinberg

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The Essence of Chocolate by John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg gives us recipes, photographs and personal reflections to tell the story of Scharffen Berger, one of America’s most popular and finest chocolate makers…..

Posted by Editor Carol on 11/02/2007
Categories • Baking, Bread, DessertSpecialty, Misc
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