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The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue
Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Boston Common Press, 2000
Before reading this book, I thought I knew a lot about bbq.
+ more than just recipes
+ Every recipe is perfection
+ Would Have Been 5 Stars, but...
+ The best grilling
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Favorite Comfort Food: Classic Favorites and Great New Recipes
Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Clarkson Potter, 1999
Comfort foods = fonds memories of being a kid!
+ Title States EXACTLY what you get!
+ Perfect (almost)...
This cookbook reminds you of when food preparation was king & did not include pouring the ingredients from a box & adding water. Martha's recipes for macaroni & cheese, the perfect grilled cheese sandwich, shepherd's pie, caramel pots de creme or creamy rice pudding with caramelized bananas inspire ...
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Smoothies: 50 Recipes for High-Energy Refreshment
Sara Corpening Whiteford, Lori Lyn Narlock, ...
Chronicle Books, 1997
A perfect blend...
+ Awesome Smoothies
+ Simple Smoothies!
+ Simple Smoothies!
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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia
Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Artisan, 2000
This literary and culinary triumph is a ticket to SE Asia.
+ Wonderful
+ Very Good Coffee Table Book. Good recipes, but expensive
+ Like Southeast Asian Food? Get this book!
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Mexico One Plate At A Time
Rick Bayless
Scribner, 2000
Great Recipes, Full Instructions etc.
+ Beautiful Book
+ Finally..authentic Mexican at home
+ Very authentic and informative
+ Mexican Flavor Lovers Stop Here
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Sushi: Taste and Techniques
Kimiko Barber, Hiroki Takemura
DK ADULT, 2002
Buy it!
+ Fantastic Resource for Sushi Lovers!
+ A Grand Sushi Book for Amateurs and beyond
+ Good one. I recomend it.
+ Great book for the beginner and connoiseur!!
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The New American Cheese
Laura Werlin
Harry N. Abrams, 2000
A Treasure to Keep with your Family Heirlooms
+ Blessed Are the Cheesemakers (From Monty Python's Life of Brian)
+ great cheese book
+ Cut the cheese
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The Perfect Recipe: The Tried-And-True, Kitchen-Tested, Best Way to Cook America's Favorite Foods
Pamela Anderson, Karen Tack
Hyperion (Juv), 1997
You Need This Book
Yes, I know it's out-of-print, but but it used, but BUY IT! If you like to cook simple but delicious food, this book is a must. The explanations and techniques are marvelous and the food is even better. Clearly written and easy to follow - a cook's dream.
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Betty Crocker's Best-Loved Recipes (Betty Crocker)
Betty Crocker Editors
Betty Crocker, 1998
Simple and Delicious
+ Easy and Simple Recipes
+ Betty Crocker's Best loved Receipes
Published in 1998, this book features >200 classic Betty Crocker recipes accompanied by full color photos. The book features the winning recipes of 75 Betty Crocker contestants and their stories. I found a lot of the recipes easy to make and with ingredients that were readily available. ...
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Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
Shirley Corriher
William Morrow Cookbooks, 1997
Excellent resource for the serious cook
+ A Cook's Secret Weapon!
+ a classic filled with information
+ Great book!
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Deborah Madison
Broadway, 1997
Delicous and nutritious!
+ Classic standard for every kitchen
+ Fantastic
+ great gift
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The Best Recipe: Soups & Stews
Cook's Illustrated, 2001
Excellent Manual on Soup Making. Atypical Stock Method
+ Avid Cook
+ Wonderful foundation for creating stock and soups
+ Best Chicken Soup on Earth!
+ A new standard for soup cookbooks!
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Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking
Su-mei Yu
William Morrow Cookbooks, 2000
Ignore the negative reviews
+ Excellent, traditional thai cooking...
+ My favorite book on Thai cooking
+ Delicious food but time consuming
+ Very nicely done!
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The Fondue Cookbook
Gina Steer
McGraw-Hill, 2000
Nice book, down to earth
+ Fun Recipes
+ Pretty Good
I just received this book after wanting it for a couple of years. The recipes appear to be fairly refreshing and not to much of what I would call "frou-frou" type of recipes. I like the salad suggestions as well.
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Brunch
Louise Pickford
Ryland Peters & Small, 2002
Glorious Photos, but...
I absolutely love the pictures and design of this book. It's so clean and modern and fresh, and the angles and light are so pretty.
I got this as a gift and was excited about it, and I like the organizational structure of it: It's divided into Late Breakfast, Classic Brunch, and Early Lunch. ...
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