favorite cookbooks - multinational to old standby?

spidora xplora · December 2008

My favorite go-to cookbook is Julia Child's The Way to Cook...easy to deviate from her master recipes & make your own variations too. Not for the lactose intolerant, though...lotsa butter/heavy cream. Just got the revised edition of Joy of Cooking - wow, definitely expanded w/more int'l stuff.

carnivore · December 2008

sweet tea wrote: i'm feeling really burned* by bittman lately. seems like every time i look something up, he only has 900 ways to grill it.

*unintentional pun

I like his writing, but have you seen that "Spain...On The Road Again" show with him, Mario Batali, Gwyneth Paltrow and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols on a gastronomic road trip through Spain? Bittman is so annoying fawning over the ladies on that show. It's sad more than anything, really.

bogframe · January 2009

Four four generations, my family has sworn by The Settlement Cookbook. It has everything I'll ever need, and even gives you instructios on place settings, and all kinds of stuff!

alafairnadia · January 2009

cool. the cookbooks I´ve been using the most are the silver spoon, 2080 and molto mario (or whatever that one is called).

I just made rice balls but spanish style, with cilantro instead of parsley, jamon serrano and manchego. I´m going to go broke on fancy grocery shopping between el espanol and el griego.

I used up my cell phone card calling mrs. carnivore yesterday night re: jap chae -- they have sweet potato noodles here!! nuts. now I just need to know how to make the stuff.

oh, and from 2080 the hard boiled eggs in hunter sauce is fantastic, especially if you cover it in grated manchego and bake it for a few minutes.

favorite cookbooks - multinational to old standby?

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