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Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah Review

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah
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I use to watch Dinah Shore on TV, and she would have a
cooking segment, and she was wonderful in telling you how
to prepare the food she was making. Watching TV, you
can't ask a question, but, You didn't have a
question, she said everything you needed to know.
I use her cookbook, also and she has great recipes!

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Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen Review

Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen
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How delightful that this wonderful book is back in print. Part classic cookbook with fully described American New England recipes, partly family memoir of the World War II years, partly incisive characterizations of the many visitors to the "Appleyard" home, this book will bring you many happy hours reading, thinking, and cooking (and eating!) Mrs. Appleyard is no country bumpkin; her friends include Greenwich Village mavens as well as local New England characters. And her recipes are presented as part of full menus with descriptions of the social events that occured in her small Vermont village. A beautifully warm, evocative, smart and funny cookbook. Similar to Gladys Tabor, Peg Bracken.

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Tana's Kitchen Secrets Review

Tana's Kitchen Secrets
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Tana, of course is the wife of Chef Gordon Ramsay; but her style is more gentle and family oriented. She presents 120 recipes, of which she says the purpose is to make people love cooking and that every family needs time around the table together.
Her book is done in nice colours, with lots of eloquent pictures and she gives outstanding advice, such as; if a recipe says parsley and you don't have it, don't panic, use something else.
These are family meals that are a bit different, but not difficult and ones that most would probably enjoy.
She gives kitchen and pantry secrets: where to keep spices, the types of oils to have on hand. There are recipes for slow and easy meat, quick and easy meat, fish, pasta, rice and grains, pies, pastries and tarts, vegetables, breads, pizza dough, sweets, cakes, cookies, sauces and dressings. Do not miss her Parmesan chicken drumsticks or her Pollack and shrimp pie, even the Smoked paprika mashed potatoes are different but still kid friendly.
Her slow meats do not use a slow cooker, but are cooked slowly in an oven. She shows how to make a lamb sausage, not in casing but rolled in prosciutto. She tells the secrets on how to cook fish and gives advice that even a cook of many years might find useful, but a new adventuresome cook could do. There are pictures to illustrate techniques where needed.
It's just a charming, useful cookbook, for beginners or those more skilled, and an addition for any one that loves cookbooks.

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Widely renowned for being the bedrock of the Ramsay household, and as a busy mother of four, Tana knows how important it is to use what little time you have wisely. Her philosophy for enjoying a relaxed and rewarding life is refreshing: it's important to be healthy, but also to take time to have fun; it's good to get your children to eat their greens, but also to instill in them a lifelong love of good food. Tana Ramsay will be your best friend in the kitchen, especially when time is limited and serenity is in short supply.Tana's fabulous recipes range from Veal with mozzarella and red pepper sauce to Blackberry Ice-cream to international favorites such as Thai Red Curry and Moroccan Fish Tagine. The recipes are accompanied by invaluable tips, such as how to make a breadcrumb coating really crispy, how to stop your pastry sticking when rolling it out, how to cook dried pasta to perfection and how to create the lightest of cakes.Tana Ramsay shares her secrets for creating the very best home food with minimum time and effort.

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Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens (California Studies in Food and Culture) Review

Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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I bought a copy of this book for myself, and by the end of the week also bought a copy for my mother for her birthday. I know she'll love it for the same reasons I do: Lovely writing, fascinating oral histories of immigrants to America who carry their home traditions to the US through cooking and sharing family meals, and really wonderful recipes. I know this won't be the only time I give this book as a gift!
I love the writing of MFK Fisher, and Lynne Anderson brings that same sensibility to this book; a great understanding of how food and cooking can bring both solace and celebration to our lives, and a wonderful eye for the details of creating a meal. I've also made one of the recipes in this book--ok, it was for the easiest recipe, for hummous. But I've made it 2x in the last week, and it's broken me of my habit of buying Sabra hummous in the (overpriced NYC) grocery stores! It's so inexpensive and easy to make--plus it's just fantastic! I want to make some of the other recipes, like the stuffed grape leaves. And the Irish recipe--and maybe some of the African ones, once I feel a little more ambitious!
Anderson clearly knows her stuff--the book jacket says she cooked for years, and also is a teacher. Her sense of the importance of good food (and complete dismissal of the elitist cult of foodism) is palpable. I could go on and on--but I guess I've made it clear I'm a fan. And I don't buy cookbooks any more, feeling that I can get any recipe off the internet. But the combination of recipes + oral histories from people who moved here from other cultures was irresistible to me, and I'm so glad I took the plunge.
And I'm having hummous later today--I'll make back the price of this book on what I save by not getting store-bought any more.

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Through stories of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves--this book recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes, and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef and teacher Lynne Anderson has gone into immigrant kitchens and discovered the power of food to recall a lost world for those who have left much behind. The enticing, easy-to-prepare recipes feature specialties like Greek dolmades, Filipino adobo, Brazilian peixada, and Sudanese mulukhiyah. Together with Robin Radin's beautiful photographs, these stories and recipes will inspire cooks of all levels to explore new traditions while perhaps rediscovering their own culinary roots.

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The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth-Century American Home Review

The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth-Century American Home
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Considering how much time is spent socializing in people's kitchens, The Warmest Room in the House is an apt title for this book. And that's before the author explores how the room went from being literally hot (open fires, no ventilation) to the center for family interaction, to the design showplace of today. Gdula's easy writing style makes for an enjoyable read as he goes from our kitchen's humble and dangerous beginnings to it's current ultra-modern state. And he brings along great stories of cooking pioneers and legends like Fannie Farmer and Julia Child, as well as innovations like aluminum foil and tv trays. Considering the issues we are having today with food quality and safety, his exploration of our government's earlier efforts at regulation are particularly timely. It's a fun story, an easy read, and well told.

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Pies & Tarts (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library) Review

Pies and Tarts (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library)
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After recieving this book as a gift, the Summer Berry Tart recipie has become one of my specialties. Give it as a gift with a tart pan, and any cook is sure to appreciate it. I have given it as gifts, and have loved every recipie I've tried. It is a great addition to the Williams-Sonoma cookbook library, which is a must for cooks!

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The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen: Glorious Meals Pure and Simple Review

The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen: Glorious Meals Pure and Simple
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Okay, here is the third Levana Kirschenbaum cookbook (buy the other two before they go out of print also). If you are allergic to or can not eat dairy products, you can be fortunate to have Levana in your life. Her recipes are mouth watering and her desserts are just "beyond." Levana uses ingredients that promote health and are so good. My wife has made her non-dairy cheesecake. Even dairy eaters love it. She has also made about 8 other desserts and smoothies by Levana. They are both very good, good for you, and do not leave you feeling like a blimp afterwards.

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The right natural foods are not only better for you, they are tastier, too-these 250 remarkable recipes prove it!
Eat your way to health! proclaims Lévana Kirschenbaum, longtime chef of Manhattan's kosher gourmet restaurant Levana. Not only can you treat ailments such as arthritis with the appropriate nutrition, but you can also achieve a healthy weight just by eating. With dishes like Iced Minted Honeydew and Kiwi Soup, BalsamicRoasted Chicken Breasts, Chinese Meatloaf, and Molten Chocolate Cake,The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen makes cooking healthily both easy and delicious. This veritable volume is chock-full of more than 250 recipes, plenty of color illustrations, and advice on which foods are (or aren't) okay when powdered, canned, or frozen. Lévana promises your new superfood diet will taste so good, you won't ever go back. 50 color illustrations

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