Have a special cooking need or looking for something different? Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of "Specialty, Unique & Miscellaneous Cookbooks", a selection of special-purpose, unique, quirky and interesting one-of-a-kind cookery books. Included are soup, crockpot, grill, slow cooker and crock pot recipe books.
Author Jeff Koehler has quite nicely captured the magic and fun of Spain’s most cherished dish. Paella is quite literally a party in a pan and nothing starts the festivities better than this simple dish of rice, herbs, stock and assorted ingredients…
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/03/2008
Terrine is an ideal follow up to Stephane Reynaud’s wonderful Pork & Sons. With the same unassuming and authentic style he introduces us his favorite recipes for these rustic, traditional dishes. Unencumbered by unnecessary desriptions and sidebars, the book uses a simple layout…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 04/08/2008
With Laura Werlin Cheese Essentials the veteran author (New American Cheese; All American Cheese and Wine Book and Great Grilled Cheese) has written an approachable and comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to buying, understanding, cooking, and entertaining with cheese. She easily achieves…..
Few foods have the lasting, easy comfort appeal of soup. These one-pot wonders can solve so many of our culinary dilemas from quick weekday meals, comforting an ailing loved one or using up a surplus of garden or market greens. Soup Kitchen is a fantastic collection…
Posted by Editor Carol on 03/03/2008
Celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary with a new edition, New Intercourses by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge has been expanded and updated to include 60 new dishes bringing it to 135 couple tested recipes designed to woo your heart, palate and generally…..
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
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
Hungry Planet is both an inspiring and sobering view the state of eating habits and health of people around the world. To produce Hungry Planet the authors take the simple concept of photographing 24 diverse families from 30 countries…..
Braises and Stews by Tori Ritchie host of CBS’s Five Minute Cooking School and Food Network’s Ultimate Kitchen is a nice collection of everyday recipes for stove-top or oven braised dishes aimed at helping you ’ get a great dinner on the table tonight without searching for special ingredients, without exhaustive preparation, without spending a lot of money’.....
Whenever James Peterson tackles a topic for a cookbook, you know that you’re getting the most thorough and comprehensive book on that subject (as with his Fish and Shellfish, and Sauces), and in Splendid Soups, he is up to his usual award-winning fine form…..
Wonderfully poetic writing and food reminiscences come together seamlessly in this collection of recipes and meal memories from poet Maya Angelou. Renowned in her wide and generous circle of friends (some of them famous… Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy) as a marvelous chef…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 04/17/2007
The Easy-Bake Oven debuted forty years ago and won the hearts of many budding chefs—actually, 50 million, and still selling. “Do you long for the simple childhood days of playing with your Easy-Bake Oven? Adding water to the packaged mix…
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/01/2006
As founder and owner of the 25-year old New England Cheeesemaking Supply Company in Ashfield, Massachusetts, Ricki Carroll is pretty much a pioneer of the trendy and celebrated artisan cheeses made across North America today. Home Cheese Making is an expanded .....
A Real American Breakfast is a coast-to-coast feast of 275 breakfast recipes. There are old favorites like Waffles and Homemade Cereals, flaky Buttermilk Biscuits, Chocolate Bread Pudding, and Brown Butter Apple Cake, to regional specialties like Charleston Shrimp and Grits…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 02/26/2006
No cookbook collection is complete without a decent reference book for pasta, one of the most loved and versatile of all foods. The Complete Book of Pasta and Noodles by The Editors of Cook’s Illustrated Magazine is a standout in the crowd. This book is one part cooking course, one part kitchen reference…..
Grilled Cheese offers up 50 variations on the classic cheese stuffed between your favorite bread and grilled. Tuna Melt with Spanish Flavors; Grilled Pumpernickel and Gouda; Crisp Little Roquefort Sandwiches… mouthwatering twists on classics and old favorites…..
A great collection of favorites taken from master baker Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Nights at Campanile, her award-winning restaurant. Some new ideas for sandwiches such as Bacon, Avocado and Watercress plus Asparagus, Poached Egg, Prosciutto and Fontina share space with old favorites like the Croque Monsieur…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 02/04/2004
A follow-up to their award-winning Flatbreads and Flavors, Seductions of Rice is every bit as thorough, fascinating, and informative. Husband and wife team, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid are photographers, writers, great cooks, world travelers, and above all passionate…..
Posted by Editor Carol on 01/20/2004
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