Celebrity Chef, Restaurant Cookbooks
Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of cookbooks by celebrity chefs, famous restaurants, popular cooking personalities, plus Food Network and TV cooks. Included are cooking and cookery book offerings by some of the most famous culinary names in print and on television including Ina Garten (Barefoot Contessa), Julia Child, Sara Moulton, Gida Delaurentiis, Jamie Oliver, Rachel Ray, Martha Stewart, Nigella Lawson, Mario Batali, Alton Brown, Maya Angelou and more. These outstanding cooking books combine excellent recipes, quality production and solid entertainment.
December 01, 2008
by Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow
I love a good road trip book. All the better if the purpose of the trip is to seek out new culinary experiences. And, Spain is a country with one of the most diverse and exciting cuisines going. So, it was with high expectations that I approached Spain, A Culinary Road Trip. Here’s what drew me in, firstly Mario Batali and Mark Bittman, first rate cooks, writers and food-obsessed wits. I love that they will unabashedly try anything…
October 18, 2008
by Mario Batali
Grilling is a national obsession. Bookshelves are bursting with orange and brown barbecue and grilling books boldly touting their tried and true techniques, marinades and sauces. With roots in Italian grilling and cooking tradition Mario Batali’s Italian Grill offers a subtler and fresher approach to grilling…
April 16, 2008
by Heston Blumenthal
In his BBC series, Adventures in Search of Perfection, UK chef Heston Blumenthal (of the highly acclaimed London eatery Fat Duck) turns his applies his unique creative and culinary talents to reinventing some of the world’s most well-know yet sadly often abused dishes. In the first installment he recreated the ‘perfect’ versions…..
March 03, 2008
by Thomasina Miers, Annabel Buckingham
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…
November 15, 2007
by Nigella Lawson
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…..
November 12, 2007
by Anthony Bourdain
“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...”
November 12, 2007
by Laurent Tourondel, Michele Scicolone
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…..
November 06, 2007
by Melanie Duneau
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…..
November 05, 2007
by Jamie Oliver
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…..
October 09, 2007
by Ferran Adria
Chef Ferran Adria is probably the most highly revered and innovative chef working today and most professional cooks when asked where they would most want to dine would nine times out of ten pick his restaurant el Bulli in Spain. The closest most will come to this extraordinary restaurant dining experience is…..
September 05, 2007
by Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook is a solid collection of sweet and savory baking recipes from America’s favorite homemaker. Ideal for new bakers, The Baking Handbook offers up over 200 fairly traditional recipes handily organized; there’s cookies, muffins, pastries, pies, cakes, yeast breads…..
August 17, 2007
by Tyler Florence
One might be tempted to dismiss Food Network star Florence Tyler as just a pretty package, but the food he prepares is appealing, honest and downright delicious. Seldom does a cookbook succeed in being both stylish and practical, Tyler’s Ultimate does just that…..
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July 30, 2007
by Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver ditches his celebrity status for a time an takes a VW bus on road trip through the Italian countryside in search of his inner Italian food soul. And the result is Jamie’s Italy, a charming and genuine collection of stories, recipes and culinary adventures. One browse through our site and you can see we…..
June 02, 2007
by Nigella Lawson
For Nigella Lawson, celebrated British food writer and food show host, great food is not about cooking but about eating. With her essential cookbook, How to Eat, Nigella shows us how to get the most out of a good meal and in so doing, life itself. Although better equipped than most of us to yield a skillet…..
May 30, 2007
by Giada De Laurentiis
In her cookbook Everyday Pasta Food, Network favourite Giada De Laurentiis brings us a collection of dishes very close to her heart and home, based on her favourite theme - pasta. She stays true to her…..
April 08, 2007
by Paul Bertolli
Cooking by Hand has you hooked the moment you pick it up, and it does so without the usual chef showpiece features of stunning photography, glorious design, and glossy pages. Just heartwarming, inventive dishes and insightful writing that take you to the heart and soul…..
February 08, 2007
by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Simon Wheeler
According to author Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, “We all know that food can often be the source of great pleasure. My question is, why isn’t it always?”. His book The River Cottage Cookbook (a companion to his UK television show) aims to help us…..
November 06, 2006
by Lidia Bastianich
In this companion book to her latest PBS series, popular chef and teacher Lidia Bastianich generously welcomes us into her kitchen to meet her family and share with us some of her favorite family meals. Rooted in her Italian traditions, the dishes in Lidia’s Family Table are an innovative…..
October 28, 2006
by Tom Colicchio
The flap copy of Craft of Cooking by award winning chef and cookbook author (Think Like a Chef) Tom Colicchio boldly claims that “Craft of Cooking is destined to become a staple of home cooks everywhere—the one ‘restaurant cookbook’ they can’t live without.” Turns out that while this boast may be slightly overstated, Craft of Cooking is certainly a restaurant book that we highly recommend…..
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September 04, 2006
by Thomas Keller
In his Napa Valley bistro Bouchon chef Thomas Keller (also of famed French Laundry) serves traditional French bistro fare, and this book pays homage to his love of bistro cooking. Bouchon is a celebration of the simple, pure and elevated ingredients…..
September 04, 2006
by Jamie Oliver
This companion to his UK television show which took 15 unemployed, enthusiastic kids and trained them to be chefs (good enough to open a restaurant in the end) is laid out as a cooking course to give new cooks confidence needed to get started in the kitchen…..
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September 04, 2006
by Keith McNally
French brasserie cooking is the ultimate in comfort foods, and no book in recent memory has captured its essence, style, and flavor so perfectly as The Balthazar Cookbook. From the evocative and timeless red cover, to the cozy images of the restaurant’s interior and heaping plates of food throughout…..
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September 02, 2006
by Emeril Lagasse
The ever popular and charismatic celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse kicks it up another notch with From Emeril’s Kitchens! Emeril and the chefs of six of his restaurants (New Orleans, Las Vegas and Orlando eateries) bring together 150 of their most popular and most requested recipes…..
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September 01, 2006
by Mario Batali
Molto Italiano is stuffed full of big, bold, flavorful food wrapped up in a gorgeous package with loads of insightful and personal reflections from a culinary master. Plenty of classic meat dishes to please his many fans of authentic Italian cooking, like the “daddy of all great braises…..
July 20, 2006
by Anthony Bourdain
To all those faint of heart, prudish ninnies who expect niceties and coddling, be forewarned Les Halles by Anthony Bourdain is not a book for you… If however, you possess both the desire to cook good bistro food…..
July 08, 2006
by Michael Chiarello
A new cookbook from Michael Chiarello, best-selling author of the The Tra Vigne Cookbook, signature recipes from his acclaimed restaurant in St. Helena, California. This companion volume to his 26-part series on public television, Michael Chiarello’s Casual Cooking is a collection of his favorite recipes…..
May 15, 2006
by Sara Moulton
Sara Moulton, star of The Food Network’s “Cooking Live” and “Sara’s Secrets” has written her first cookbook. An all-purpose book for home cooks of any level, it includes 200 recipes for every meal—and every course. She offers her expert and experienced advice…..
April 04, 2006
by Rachael Ray
Kids rock! says Rachael, and it seems the feeling is mutual. Young people number among her biggest fans. For them she has created a fabulous collection of age-specific recipes with a high cool factor…...
March 06, 2006
by Ina Garten
Ina Garten puts her magical touch to French country cooking in Barefoot in Paris. Ina has realized her own dream of living in France and scouring the markets to create her own version of classic French country cuisine, and this book is her own personal collection and insider’s food guide to Paris. With a range that includes hearty Bouef Bourguignon…..
February 26, 2006
by Diane Forley
Renowned chef of New York’s Verbena restaurant, Diane Forley shows how to build a dish and menu—from vegetables on up—in this innovative cookbook that looks at flavors through a botanical prism. Anatomy of a Dish is a collection of the richly flavored recipes…..
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