cooking

homemade pizza

When I was at Powell’s bookstore this past weekend, I spent a lot of time in the cookbooks. I didn’t buy any, but found much inspiration there! Now that I’m eating meat, I have a lot of thinking to do about incorporating new recipes and menus into my weekly routines. So I’d really appreciate your suggestions about your favorite cookbooks. For example, I’m now thinking of buying at least one of Thomas Keller’s cookbooks–perhaps The French Laundry Cookbook or Bouchon. I’ll also be getting my own copy of Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen, since I’ve been craving several of Clothilde’s recipes recently (ooo, and I might just have to pick up this one, too, to complete the Parisian menu: Laduree).

Can you offer any other cookbook (or recipe) suggestions for me?

Note: I’m also going to get some container gardening and a small potted herb garden growing soon.  Because there’s nothing better than garden-fresh.  🙂

6 thoughts on “cooking”

  3. aubrey

    god i love the cookbook section of powells!

    you should bookmark Clotilde’s salt-crusted chicken recipe – I’d definitely try it if I ate chicken. I don’t know if it’s in Edible Adventures, but it’s on the blog. As for cookbook rec’s, here are a few I’m drooling over recently:

    Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
    http://www.amazon.com/Ottolenghi-Cookbook-Yotam/dp/0091922348/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303419448&sr=1-1

    Moro East – a feast for the eyes as well as the palate
    http://www.amazon.com/Moro-East-Samuel-Clark/dp/0091917778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303419428&sr=1-1

    Biscotti – from the Sustainable Food Project in Rome
    http://www.amazon.com/Biscotti-Recipes-Kitchen-American-Sustainable/dp/1892145898

    And a few that I own and love:

    Alice Water’s The Art of Simple Food – simple, from scratch recipes, not much fuss or fancy about it
    http://www.amazon.com/Art-Simple-Food-Delicious-Revolution/dp/0307336794/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303419520&sr=1-1

    Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice:
    http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Bakers-Apprentice-Mastering-Extraordinary/dp/1580082688/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303419539&sr=1-1

    Also, a list of cookbooks from a master food blogger, in case you feel like some structured perusing: http://101cookbooks.com/lists/heidis_cookbooks.html

  4. Gray

    I really like Paul Bocuse. La cuisine du marché is a favorite if you can manage the French. I don’t remember seeing an English edition. It was originally published in the 1970s, but it is more practical here in the US now than it was at the time, as good ingredients are much more available here now. What I like about it is the beautiful clarity of his writing and practicality of the recipes and procedures. I learned a lot from this book.

    I also have Cuisine des Regions de France, another good resource. The English edition, Regional French Cooking, is more useful because it has been edited a bit for audiences outside of France. My eccentric Francophile friend Charles bought the English edition for my birthday and purchased the French edition for himself. He somehow had a change of heart and gave me the less practical gift.

  5. Em

    I’m totally just a random wanderer who found your posts over at Exponent (and liked them).

    For what it’s worth, there’s a series of cookbooks by Lovina Eicher titled “The Amish Cook” and variations on that (I think the others are “The Amish Cook at Home” and “The Amish Cook’s Baking Book”….I should know, I own them all but don’t use them like I wish I did). Anyway. A friend of mine took the photos, and the cookbooks are as much a window into Amish life as they are recipe books. They’re beautiful pictures, lovely recipes, and wonderful insights into life.

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