PrintNew cookbooks? Any favorites?
We often talk about all time favorites here, but what are your favorite new cookbooks?
My new favorite is Hiedi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking. It's wonderful. I just got it a couple of weeks ago and thus far, every recipe I've made from it has been really good. With the added addition of actually being healthy, which is kind of nice.
Do you have any new, hot-off-the-presses cookbook faves? Please, share. If there's one thing I love it's a new fabulous cookbook.
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6 Comments:
I've had my eye on it for a while, so last week on my day off I finally bought The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. I've been reading it in my spare time and I'm not even to the recipes yet and I love this book. Okay, I have looked ahead at what I might like to cook (and there's plenty!), but I am reading the early chapters thoroughly. Are you a carnivore or a vegan? Choice is up to you. How do you source your meat? What are the different cuts? How do you use every part of the animal that has been killed for you to eat? He writes in a very conversational style and I would love to be in the kitchen with him to learn as he cooks. I'm looking at a very rainy weekend (lots of reading time) so by next week I should be able to try some recipes. This is a great book.
ride&cook at 10:13PM on 03/14/08
A friend gave me another Barefoot Contessa cookbook for Christmas. I may have all? My newest is an older cookbook that I bought on ebay, based on reading what so many of you recommended as your favorite, the one you'd grab on the way out the door if your house was burning. Joy of Cooking, 1975 edition. I can't believe I lucked out with one in such excellent condition. With shipping it cost about $12. What a bargain! I'm really enjoying browsing through it and "tasting" the recipes. Actually, it's not THAT old! I had a baby that year!!!
PerkyMac at 10:23PM on 03/14/08
i really enjoyed roast chicken and other stories by simon hopkinson.
cybercita at 10:38PM on 03/14/08
I just bought " Cookies" from the Joy of Cooking. I have a million baking books, but this one actually imparted new info. I also have the new Ellie Krieger book, The Foods You Crave. I've made a few things, and they were healthy and delicious. The Barefoot Contessa books are all great. I have them all, and use them frequently. I have been trying to buy fewer cookbooks, because, I am addicted to them. I now go to allrecipes.com and recipezaar, and print out what I want to make. The recipes are reviewed by people like us, so 99% of the time, they are spot on.
Mich23 at 8:01AM on 03/15/08
After reading the NYT review that chiffOnade posted, I want "Beard on Food."
wookie at 2:43PM on 03/15/08
One of my newest is the French CIA Techniques and I really love it. I have seriously been thinking about adding SuperNatural to my way too substantial cookbook library. I have browsed it several times at the Borders over coffee and I think I'd like to own it. I get Heidi's emails every week and I find myself a little intrigued.
frederika at 3:02PM on 03/15/08