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.
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”, Read the full article...
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 and an ounce of humour, Read the full article...
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 Read the full article...
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 Read the full article...
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. Another winner from popular television celebrity chef and author Rachael Ray, this time for the kids. Hey, if it can get […] Read the full article...
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 Read the full article...
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 Forley serves at her restaurant, illuminated by the culinary and botanical explorations […] Read the full article...
In Kitchen Confidential, author and professional chef Anthony Bourdain gives a no-holes-barred account of life behind the stoves. Filled with wry observations, fragrant characters, self-depreciating humor and peppered in spicy language, Read the full article...
In Jamie’s Dinners, Jamie Oliver shares 120 of his favorite family recipes kicking off with his (and his website visitors’) Top Ten (Roast Chicken with Lemon and Rosemary Roast Potatoes; Fish, Chips and Mushy Peas; Simple Baked Lasagna…). His “Family Tree” section gives some basic building block recipes and Jamie’s ideas Read the full article...
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. Read the full article...
