Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of our favorite, recommended "All Purpose & General Cookbooks". These outstanding general cook books are geared towards basic, day-to-day home cooking and new cooks. Featuring a wide selection of popular, straightforward and proven recipes, these cookery books cover a broad range of cuisines, ingredients and cooking styles making them ideal if you have limited space.
Every week host Lynne Rosetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift provide loyal listeners of the national radio show The Splendid Table with a wealth of stories, tips, recipes and original ideas for serving family dinners. Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a leading food authority and cultural historian and.....
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
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.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 06/02/2007
According to Ruth Reichl, the renown editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and former restaurant critic, she and her editors combed through 50,000 recipes from 60 years worth of magazines to find a ”treasure-trove of extraordinary recipes and a history of American cooking in its most exciting years”. That’s a ton of history .....
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.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 02/08/2007
In Appetite, popular UK cookbook author and food writer Nigel Slater’s aim is to give us the confidence and tools to create our own pleasures with food, to find comfort in the kitchen. Appetite is not about getting it right or wrong; it is about liking what you cook. His aim is true and his love of food is infectious. His style is laid back.....
Fans of Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten will love this beautiful collection of American classic dishes with a modern flare just right for casual entertaining and family meals. Delicious, easy, comfort food beautifully presented.....
Part of the Best Recipe series from the editors at Cook’s Illustrated (America’s Test Kitchen), American Classics offers a treasure trove of all-time favorite American dishes—clam chowder, mashed potatoes, and fried chicken, to brownies, carrot cake, and lemon meringue pie—great old fashioned..
Posted by Editor Carol on 06/28/2006
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.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 05/15/2006
According to author Sally Schneider, ”A New Way to Cook is a redefinition of healthy eating, where no food is taboo, great taste rules and the concept of self-denial just doesn’t exist.” So, if you enjoy cooking and believe that flavor and taste go hand-in-hand with healthy cooking, then this comprehensive all-purpose cookbook.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 05/04/2006
Founded in 1980, Cook’s Illustrated (formerly Cook’s Magazine) has emerged as “America’s Test Kitchen,” renowned for its near-obsessive dedication to finding the optimum methods of American home cooking. The New Best Recipe with 22 chapters and 1,000 plus recipes.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 04/28/2006
Known as the Harvard of cooking schools and credited with having “changed the way Americans eat” by the James Beard Foundation, the Culinary Institute of America has trained a slew of culinary professionals and upon graduation each one would be clutching a well-worn copy of their class “bible”.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 09/04/2005
The Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook is an all-purpose, no-frills, complete cooking reference that has been a staple in American kitchens since the first edition was published in 1930. The famed red plaid cookbook.....
What could be better than the forty years of cooking experience of a master cook wrapped up in a neat little package to have at your fingertips whenever you need help in the kitchen? Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom is a gem of a quick reference book that.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 04/13/2005
Betty Crocker’s Cookbook remains true to its subtitle—“Everything You Need to Know To Cook Today”. Now in its 10th edition at over 50 years old, this trusted classic is still satisfying millions of home cooks. There are almost 1,000 recipes, all complete with step-by-step directions.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 11/28/2004
Times and lifestyles have changed since Irma Rombauer first published the original Joy of Cooking in 1931, and for this 6th edition, the New Joy of Cooking, Ethan Becker, grandson of Irma and son of Marion Rombauer Becker, together with Maria Guarnaschelli, senior editor and vice president at Scribner’s, called on top food professionals to produce a new cookbook/guide.....
James Beard was a pioneer in teaching cooking to Americans, and that The James Beard Cookbook has sold over 1.5 million copies is a testament to his enduring popularity. He uses simple language and instructions for making a variety of standard dishes.....
Author Mark Bittman believes that, ”Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.” In How to Cook Everything he provides a guidebook to enable any cook to make good food. With over 1,500 recipes and 250 explicit step-by-step instructions it is comprehensive and.....
No great cook herself, Irma Rombauer collected recipes and kitchen techniques from friends and neighbors, and published a book to help ease the workload and stress of new homemakers not blessed with the services of a house servant or live-in cook. That was 1931, and The Joy of Cooking.....
Cook some classic dishes with two professionals for the price of one book. Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home is the companion volume to a public television series hosted by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin. Julia and Jacques have their own distinct opinions and approaches to cooking.....
Posted by Editor Carol on 02/28/2004
Donna Hay’s first book, The New Cook, introduced home cooks to page after page of stylish, chic, and innovative dishes all wrapped up in a beautiful and amazingly affordable package. Donna believes that ”good food is a combination of fresh ingredients and uncomplicated layers of flavour.” .....
In Modern Classics Book 1, Donna Hay takes those classic dishes we most love and freshens them up with new ingredients, combinations of flavors, and her unique style of presentation. Hay’s new classics are global dishes such as French Onion Soup, Pad Thai, Lemon and Parmesan Risotto, and .....
The All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook has it all; loaded with a great collection of recipes (1,500 in all), excellent coverage of cooking techniques, equipment, food information, straightforward tips, how-to’s, and advice for new cooks.....
The revised, thirteenth edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion Cunningham features 325 new recipes and new chapters dealing with microwave, outdoor, and vegetarian cooking. Buy this cookbook for its baking section alone—cookies, puddings, cakes, no-fail pie crusts.....
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