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.
In Living It Up Southern Style, author, restaurateur and Food Network personality Paula Deen—along with a few of her local pals—shows us how to bring some southern charm into any festive gathering.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 01/09/2006
In Holiday Food, Mario Batali of the Food Network’s “Molto Mario” presents the most cherished Italian dishes of the Christmas season. The book consists of traditional Italian menus that take you through the four holidays, Christmas Eve.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 12/02/2005
Chef Mario Batali, known to fans as “Molto Mario” and “Mediterranean Mario” from his Food Network appearances, pays tribute to traditional Italian home cooking in a distinctly modern way. He presents more than 200 of his simple yet innovative recipes
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/27/2005
A Return To Cooking is an exceptional, original book of meals, recipes, cooking techniques, reflections and art from Eric Ripert (of New York City’s Le Bernardin fame). Readers live vicariously through the lives of beautiful people, beautiful places, and beautiful food tucked in with captivating artwork and photographs.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/04/2005
When first published, The River Cafe Cookbook, by chefs Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, was a revelation to home cooks. Here was simple yet sophisticated Italian food pared down to its most basic and delicious form. Home cooks.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/01/2005
Get Togethers: Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals is more of a good thing for fans of her Food Network show and Rachel Ray’s 30 Minutes Meals 1 & 2. In Get Together, Rachel groups 3 recipes together, presenting them as menu suggestions for casual entertaining, all promised to be ready in the magic 30-minute mark.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/04/2005
The French Laundry Cookbook is the long awaited, much praised, and award-winning cookbook from Thomas Keller, owner of the French Laundry in Napa Valley which is according to Wine Spectator ”as close to dining perfection as it gets.” The French Laundry Cookbook captures.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/02/2005
Here is a book that lives up to its subtitle—great ideas that really are easy to do on your own and really are fun. Ina Garten, of the Barefoot Contessa fame, has lots of experience with parties, those she’s catered from her specialty food shop, and many of her own at her East Hampton home. Ina Garten really delivers on.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/22/2005
Star of the television reality show The Restaurant, Rocco DiSpirito brings together his zest for full-flavored food and living in one neat, colorful package. Before he was a television star, DiSpirito was a much lauded chef of the critically acclaimed Union Pacific Restaurant in NYC. The recipes.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/16/2005
Bold, Unfussy, Irresistible, Real. That’s Tyler Florence’s philosophy towards food and how he introduces readers to his first cookbook, Tyler Florence’s Real Kitchen. Fans of Florence’s Food Network show, Food 911, where he rescues home cooks.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/09/2005
The companion book to her new 52-part PBS series of the same name, here is Lidia’s most instructive, personal, and inspiring cookbook yet. As always, Lidia’s personal stories and experiences make this book both a pleasure to read and cook from. Old favorites are here.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 08/27/2005
In Feast: Food That Celebrates Life, author and Food Network favorite Nigella Lawson shares with us some of her favorite menus for special occasions, holidays, and family get-togethers. Nigella has an unabashed love for food and believes that the meal and who you share it with is.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 08/15/2005
This is delicious and unpretentious food—the recipes that please Ina Garten’s family and friends at home in the East Hamptons. Of course we love the recipes, but we also love the beautiful, clean design, vivid photographs of the prepared dishes.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 07/08/2005
With Forever Summer, Nigella takes eating to where the weather is fine and the living is easy. Dreary winter? Never mind, it’s sensuous summer all year long with Nigella Lawson in this food network companion cookbook that draws on the best cuisines from all over the world.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 07/02/2005
From New York City where he left us in Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain’s lunacy continues as he takes readers (and viewers for a companion television program) around the world in search of the perfect meal. Bourdain stumbles through a diverse culinary world as a Cook’s Tour recounts.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 06/29/2005
Style and simplicity go hand in hand in Giada De Laurentiis’ first book, Everyday Italian. Based on her popular Food Network show of the same name, Everyday Italian brings home some very basic, tried and true Italian-American dishes that are uncomplicated to prepare, yet surprisingly.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 06/24/2005
Alice Waters taught Americans how to cook and eat outside of the box, literally, by introducing the concept of eating locally grown produce in season—something we now take almost as a given in our better cookbooks. Sure, the ingredients can be somewhat obscure to the average home cook, and the recipe instructions at times daunting, but.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 01/04/2005
Jacques Pepin is a recognized super chef, super instructor, and a master of technique, and Fast Food My Way is his most accessible book yet. Pepin believes that the best food is always the simplest, and in this collection of recipes he shows how to save hours in the kitchen without compromising the taste and end result of your dish.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 01/04/2005
A French phrase meaning “amusement for the mouth”, amuse-bouche are the appetizer to the appetizer, a French culinary tradition that author and chef Rick Tramanto introduces to the home cook with his award-winning cookbook. According to Tramonto, amuse bouche are the gastronomical equivalent of receiving a ”kiss from the chef”.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 12/04/2004
The Sopranos Family Cookbook: as Compiled by Artie Bucco (conceived and written by Allen Rucker and Michele Scicolone) is a wonderfully tacky Sopranos-themed book that happens to include some pretty terrific Italian-American recipes.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 12/04/2004
This is a collection for home cooks who want to take the time and effort to create a truly memorable end to a meal, and will not be swayed by lengthy ingredient lists or calories alike. Chef/owner Todd English of Olives in Boston has teamed.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/29/2004
According to Jamie in his introduction, ”The title The Naked Chef sums up the idea: it’s basically stripping food back to the bare essentials. It’s me cooking at home, sociable, simple food with my friends, stuff you can put in the middle of the table.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/14/2004
Cooking sensation Jamie Oliver returns with a third cookbook, stripping fine food down to the basics with recipes that are fresh, flavorful, and feisty. He believes in finding the best ingredients and making tasty, easy, social meals.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/04/2004
Tom’s Big Dinners is a warm and personal collection of 13 menus for entertaining from award-winning Seattle-based chef, Tom Douglas. Family and food go together for Tom Douglas, and everyone pitches in to create full-flavored dishes.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/09/2004
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their internationally acclaimed Ithaca restaurant, The Moosewood Collective presents their first-ever collection of vegetarian menus for holidays and festive occasions for every season. The dishes have a modern, international feel.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/05/2004
Marcus Samuelsson has won great praise for the unique, contemporary Scandinavian cuisine he creates at his Manhattan restaurant, Aquavit. Writing in the New York Times, critic Ruth Reichl said, ”Samuelsson is cooking delicate and beautiful food, walking a tightrope between Swedish tradition and modern tastes… It is intoxicating.”
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/04/2004
How to Be a Domestic Goddess is not only about baking, but also about enjoying being in the kitchen; about taking sensuous pleasure in the entire process and relishing the outcome. The “domestic goddess” has to maintain her (or his) cool when faced with pastry of course; but with Nigella’s guidance.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 10/02/2004
As founding chef at California’s famed Chez Panisse, chef at San Francisco’s Stars, Jeremiah Tower has often been named in food circles, the Father of California cooking, and one of America’s greatest chefs. In Jeremiah Tower Cooks he presents a selection of his signature deluxe, extraordinary, yet somehow approachable dishes for home cooks.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/14/2004
Baking with Julia (written by Dorie Greenspan) features hands-on baking with recipes and techniques that teach you how to make great breads, pies, cobblers, cookies, cakes, and pastries—both sweet and savory. Bakers will find simple to stunning.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 08/21/2004
The Babbo Cookbook is Mario’s biggest yet, filled with 150 recipes that have redefined contemporary Italian cooking. Some of the most inspired (and acclaimed) Italian food in the country, certainly New York City (which is saying a lot), is served at Babbo Ristorante.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 08/17/2004
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