By Mark Peel, Lucy Schaeffer, and Martha Rose Shulman
Wiley, $34.95, 288 pages
Yorkshire Pudding on the cover! That was my first reaction when I saw this cookbook: New Classic Family Dinners. I was never able to have my own Yorkshire Pudding come out right. To have it on the cover page, it must be one of [...]
By Marcus Samuelsson
Wiley, $40.00, 368 pages
“New” is the operative word in Marcus Samuelsson’s latest book, New American Table, as this is definitely not a trip down memory lane with your grandma’s file box recipes. Instead, it is a collection of recipes for America today, respecting its food history, but equally acknowledging the melting pot of [...]
By Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
Ballantine Books, $26.00, 284 pages
Food and wine writer, Grumdahl, provides a good beginners guide to the world of wine told in a conversational style with plenty of examples of accessible wines that can easily be found in most parts of the country. Starting with a quick overview of the wine world, she [...]
By Katie Luber and Sara Engram
Andrews McMeel Publishing, $29.99, 192 pages
A clearly presented recipe book remains a well-appreciated thing among busy moms, novice cooks, and singles alike. One comprising understandable information on a vast number of delicious spices—along with just how to use them—might well be worth its weight in cardamom. No more bumbling about [...]
By Kevin Zraly
Sterling, $27.95, 224 pages
Kevin Zraly has been teaching his Windows on the World wine course for 34 years, and has graduated almost 20,000 students. He took a great deal of the information from his course, and wrote a book that is a self-guided version. Now, twenty-five years later, comes the latest edition, updated, [...]
By Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst
Barron’s Educational Series, $29.99, 794 pages
The Deluxe Food Lover’s Companion is a complete education in food and a must for any cook’s toolkit. It’s an encyclopedia of food, a cooking guidebook, and a kitchen instructional wrapped into one neat, pretty book.
The layout provides an alphabetical description of everything from [...]
By Stephanie Tourles
Storey Publishing, $16.95, 271 pages
Heavy on idealism, light on research, yet loaded with fresh fruits and nuts, Raw Energy is what the author calls an “uncook” book. The raw food movement has seen mounting popularity, particularly in trendy diet fads that swear by its health benefits. Raw Energy is no exception.
Author and licensed [...]
Things are absolutely slammed at work right now, and I’ll admit it: the very last thing I want to do when I get home is cook. If I’m home, that is. I’ve been on the road so much, I’m considering putting a mailbox on the side of my car and trying to convince [...]
By the Editors at America’s Test Kitchen
Cook’s Illustrated, $39.95, 650 pages
The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbookis designed for people who not only appreciate recipes that have been tried and tested, but also like to know how and why they work. The book is a comprehensive collection of all of the recipes prepared on [...]
2.22.10: I want to be THAT mom
I have a secret: deep down, I want to be THAT mom. I don’t have kids, and I’m not even sure I want to have kids, but the thought still crosses my mind. I have dreams about baking perfect cupcakes for a class full [...]
The Dreaded “P” Word
I think the Number One enemy of cooks is preparation, specifically lack thereof. It’s ambushed me more times than I care to admit. I’ll be making something to eat, something I’ve never made before, and I think it’s going well, when I look at the recipe and notice that it [...]
By John Besh
Andrews McMeel Publishing, $45.00, 374 pages
“This book is the story of a dreamy, starry-eyed boy brought up in the shadows of New Orleans, surrounded by cypress knees and tupelo trees, good dinners and great friends.”
Like its exquisite recipes, My New Orleans is a masterpiece. Author John Besh’s cookbook sparks all the senses: taste [...]
By Jonathan King; Jim Stott; Kathy Gunst
Chronicle Books, $19.95, 144 pages
Any meal eaten while wearing pajamas automatically wins high marks! And when you put that meal into the hands of three renowned cooks, you’re bound to experience a happy tummy. Authors Jonathan King and Jim Stott of the Stonewall Kitchen company are joined by food [...]
By Su-Mei Yu
Wiley, $35.00, 336 pages
The Elements of Life,by San Diego chef and restaurateur Su-Mei Yu presents an exhaustive, and somewhat exhausting, guide to eating according to the Thai concept of home elements. The theory basically contends that the four elements of the universe– earth, air, water and fire–are also found within each individual, with [...]
By Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein
William Morrow Cookbooks, $19.99, 247 pages
As with his previous book, More Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is in author Guy Fieri’s own words, off the hook. If you are a fan of his Food Network TV show of the same name, you will love this book. It’s fun to read – [...]
By Barbara Lynch
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $35.00, 335 pages
The flavors of both South Boston and Italy come to life in Barbara Lynch’s first cookbook, Stir: Mixing It Up In The Italian Tradition. Lynch, a James Beard Award-winning chef, has crafted a book that includes not only the usual suspects in Italian cuisine, but also some uniquely [...]
