Regional, International Cookbooks
Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of “Regional & International Cookbooks”, a short-list of cook books covering local, regional, national, and ethnic cooking and cuisines. Featuring some of the best Italian, French, Mexican, Thai, American, Mediterranean, Asian and slow food cookbooks and cookery books pertaining to the popular cuisines of Italy, France, Mexico, Thailand and Asia.
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...
Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Cooking texts have taught more professional chefs than any other book, so if you’re serious about learning the trade. then this is it. With the up-to-date 6th Edition of his classic Professional Cooking, Gisslen teaches the why’s and how’s of cooking, and leads novices through the basic principles and procedures, through to […] Read the full article...
Mediterranean cuisine is rich in tradition and is the ultimate in comfort, full-flavored, textured cooking, and The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen is a treasure for the many devotees of this popular cuisine. Bestselling cookbook author and writer Paula Wolfert is an authority on Mediterranean cooking, and the 150 recipes she shares in this book are authentic […] Read the full article...
Diana Kennedy has done for Mexican Cuisine what Julia Child has done for French cooking and Marcella Hazan for Italian—introduced home cooks to a country’s great culinary tradition through groundbreaking cookbooks. Through her cookbook Cuisines of Mexico, published over 25 years ago, home cooks discovered a delicious and highly developed culinary tradition they barely knew […] Read the full article...
The Gift of Southern Cooking is a treasure trove of authentic Southern home cooking and hospitality. Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock together have written a perfect collection of recipes and culinary traditions for home cooks interested in food (and a little bit of history) of the American South. Edna Lewis has spent much of her […] Read the full article...
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 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...
Another winner from cookbook author Deborah Madison. Winner of the 2003 James Beard award for General/Cooking Cooking for Everyday category, Local Flavors—Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets really brings the market home. This is simple, straightforward, unpretentious writing and cooking by someone who not only cares about what we eat, but also about local […] Read the full article...
Patricia Wells once again invites us to visit her adopted home of Provence, France. In The Provence Cookbook, Patricia shares some of her favorite regional recipes and ingredients for simple French fare, takes us to some of her secret food haunts, and introduces us to a few of her friendly local food purveyors and vendors. Read the full article...
