Specialty, Misc Cookbooks
Have a special cooking need or looking for something different? Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of “Specialty, Unique & Miscellaneous Cookbooks”, a selection of special-purpose, unique, quirky and interesting one-of-a-kind cookery books. Included are soup, crockpot, grill, slow cooker and crock pot recipe books.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the Emmy Award–winning co-host of The View was diagnosed with celiac disease a number of years ago. She found that family recipes she loved would no longer be part of her diet until she decided to do something about it. Elisabeth put together a helpful, exciting cookbook that is filled with tips on […] Read the full article...
Author Jeff Koehler has quite nicely captured the magic and fun of Spain’s most cherished dish. Paella is quite literally a party in a pan and nothing starts the festivities better than this simple dish of rice, herbs, stock and assorted ingredients. Koehler primes his reader with the 4 basic elements to a successful paella; […] Read the full article...
With Laura Werlin Cheese Essentials the veteran author (New American Cheese; All American Cheese and Wine Book and Great Grilled Cheese) has written an approachable and comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to buying, understanding, cooking, and entertaining with cheese. She easily achieves her goal of making us ‘cheese wise’ and gives us the basic knowledge to […] Read the full article...
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 Read the full article...
Celebrating it’s 10 year anniversary with a new edition, New Intercourses by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge has been expanded and updated to include 60 new dishes bringing it to 135 couple tested recipes designed to woo your heart, palate and generally increase your mojo. Read the full article...
If you were fated to die tomorrow 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 occasion with and one not surprisingly played by many chefs. Acclaimed photographer Melanie Duneau Read the full article...
Hungry Planet is both an inspiring and sobering view the state of eating habits and health of people around the world. To produce Hungry Planets the authors take the simple concept of photographing 24 diverse families from 30 countries surrounded by the foods they eat in an entire week. The result is not only a […] Read the full article...
Braises and Stews by Tori Ritchie host of CBS’s Five Minute Cooking School and Food Network’s Ultimate Kitchen is a nice collection of everyday recipes for stove-top or oven braised dishes aimed at helping you ’ get a great dinner on the table tonight without searching for special ingredients, without exhaustive preparation, without spending a […] Read the full article...
Whenever James Peterson tackles a topic for a cookbook, you know that you’re getting the most thorough and comprehensive book on that subject (as with his Fish and Shellfish, and Sauces), and in Splendid Soups, he is up to his usual award-winning fine form. With 400 recipes, he literally brings together the finest soup-making techniques […] Read the full article...
Wonderfully poetic writing and food reminiscences come together seamlessly in this collection of recipes and meal memories from poet Maya Angelou. Renowned in her wide and generous circle of friends (some of them famous… Oprah, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Guy) as a marvelous chef, Read the full article...
