- Heidi, Have you this great press on 101 cookbooks? http://blisstree.com/eat/healthy-food-blogs-how-do-the-worlds-best-food-blogs-stack-up/No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes
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Mr. Pepin's insight on the aspects of cooking help home cooks understand the dynamics of food preparation. In addition to his contributions to the field of culinary arts, Pepin also writes about his life long love affair with food. His essay on home cooking versus restaurant cooking thoughtfully examines the benefits and challenges of each setting. His recipes are classic and innovative (my favorite is the Lobster Souffle). Woven between each recipe is Pepin's paintings as well as colorful photographs of everyday life in the Pepin household. This book will be a wonderful addition to one's collection of coffee table...
- Janet,Perhaps this is a philosophical question, but could Schneider's two books "New Way to Cook" and "The Improvisational Cook" be a cooking persuasion text? Maybe it is the way one looks at preparing food? Current living trends reflect cooking at home; publishers like to catch a buying wave. I don't fault Schneider - if she can move people to begin preparing food for themselves, families, and friends - all the better! Yet, on what level are the above texts considered cookbooks? IS there a spectrum of cookbook quality, or food exploration, or even the growth of the cook/chef? IS cooking akin to art or science or both? I think yes. For me, cookbooks are an invitation to investigate combinations of ingredients, temperature, timing, etc. For culinary novices, it is a guide to learn how to use make simple dishes. When all has been written, are cookbooks an invitation for people to prepare and break bread together? Maybe that is what Heidi is helping us to do - extend our understanding of food investigation through the printed text. Thanks Janet!No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes
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Cynthia, I totally agree with you about this book. It is a classic veggie cookbook. In addition to excellent instructions, Madur also provides the reader/cook with background knowledge about the dish.
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My son and I LOVED this cookbook/anthology of the first few GOOD EATS years! This book highlights the history of how Alton Brown started his show, includes regular and unique guests, innovative teaching visuals, and the recipes used during each episode. "I remember that episode" was our repeated response. Alton is all about teaching - this book provides a historical walk of shows while mathematically explaining cooking essentials, traveling to different places to illuminate food and food safety, explaining the science of cooking, then gives the reader the opportunity to test his/her knowledge through the provided recipes. This is a coffee table/kitchen table book in the category with "The Artist...
- Should cookbooks be relagated to the kitchen only? How about a journal along the border of the page, where dates of cooking, comments from the cook and event descriptions could be entered. Use the cookbook as a holder for cooking expereinces and leave it where all can partake. Days, months, years, later the memory of the dish and the event rush back to us.No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes
- Maybe it depends on your perspective of cooking development. I love 101 cookbooks because there are levels of cooking understanding. At the concrete level, there is the recipe. But as an onion has layers, so does 101cookbooks.com. Description of the recipe, understanding of ingredients (common and special), cutting techniques for the dish, introduction of end ingredients (usually raw) into the cooked food. Finally, there is the discussion from others revealing personal evolution of the dish. And the photography adds to the experience. Having this understanding, maybe there are some cooks that like to go by the "book" while others align themselves with a cooking theme (Cooking Light, Veggie Times, Southern Living, etc.). Still others march to their drum and like to experiment individually or in small groups using online resources. New ways to think about cooking. I guess it depends on the reason for the cookbook review.No likes Can’t Like Unlike Like No likes
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