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Sephardic Cooking: 600 Recipes Created in Exotic Sephardic Kitchens from Morocco to India Review

Sephardic Cooking: 600 Recipes Created in Exotic Sephardic Kitchens from Morocco to India
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Copeland Marks' collected most of these recipes from Sephardic members of senior citizens groups in Israel. The dishes are central to women's participation in the religious life of their communities. Women's worship, as Susan Sered has pointed out, is partially carried out in the home sphere. The recipes are remarkable. Two of my favorites are the Persian fesenjean & the Yemenite samak. Neither are for rank beginners, but both are divine.

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Writer and food historian Copeland Marks uses his unique mix of talents to make exotic Sephardic cuisines accessible to the American cook. The hundreds of recipes offer both daily fare and ceremonial dishes for holidays; and all ingredients used are readily available in the U.S.

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Commander's Kitchen: Take Home the True Taste of New Orleans with More Than 150 Recipes from Commander's Palace Restaurant Review

Commander's Kitchen: Take Home the True Taste of New Orleans with More Than 150 Recipes from Commander's Palace Restaurant
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Commander's Palace-My favorite restaurant in the world! Everyone should visit their restaurant in New Orleans. The service is wonderful and the food can't be beat. That is unless you try the recipes in this book.
The head chief and one of the family owners wrote this book. The recipes are generally Creole with some Cajun thrown in. The book blends New Orleans tradition, family/restaurant history, recipes and most importantly tips on preparation. The stories are intriguing and I have read this book from cover to cover.
One of my favorite sections is the "Commander's Kitchen Pantry." This section is made up of basic ingredients recipe-such as Creole seasonings, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and various breads. I have used these basics in my own cooking-adding much flavor.
The only knock that I have with this book is that certain recipes fall into the trap that many chef written books. Many recipes assume that you read between the lines. For example, the New Orleans Style Barbecue Shrimp doesn't recommend that you remove the shrimp from the pan before you create the wonderful sauce. If you don't do this, the shrimp will overcook. Another example is that I burned the Spicy pecans I still haven't figured it out why; maybe by not using an insulated a pan or maybe the temperature was too high...
Recipes I would try tonight are: New Orleans style barbecue shrimp, bread pudding soufflé, crab and corn Johnny Cakes with caviar, and Jambalaya. This is a great book to add to your kitchen.

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What's Cooking in Chemistry: How Leading Chemists Succeed in the Kitchen (Erlebnis Wissenschaft) Review

What's Cooking in Chemistry: How Leading Chemists Succeed in the Kitchen (Erlebnis Wissenschaft)
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"This book was the idea of a group of graduate students working for L. F. Tietze, a respected professor at the University of Goettingen, Germany. Building on their hunch that inside almost every chemist is a chef waiting to get out, they wrote to 100 of the world's leading organic chemists and asked them to contribute to a cookbook in Tietze's honour. Sixty recipes arrived on their desks: everything from Green Eel a la Marie to Lemon Kiwi Pie, a work far from formulaic.[...] A few recipes are for industrial quantities of chilli or lasagne to feed students; there is an occasional admission that a recipe originates from a restaurant or a wife. A handful are set out with method and materials as if, rather leadenly, for experimental purposes. But, overall, there is an overwhelming flavour of people who cook often, with ambition and for pleasure." (modified according to Karen Gold in: The Times Higher Education Supplement, July 18, 2003, p. 20f)

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Looking for future employment as a postdoc? Or desperately looking for the perfect present for a chemist friend? Maybe you simply enjoy cooking and reading about current developments in chemistry research? The first Who's Who in organic chemistry to show what top scientists like to cook - on the bench and on the stove - and how they have made their way. Use K. C. Nicolaou's recipe for fish and chips and read about his scientific work while preparing the meal that helped him finance his studies back in England. Containing more than 50 personal recipes and anecdotes from leading organic chemists, such as Lonely soup (Evans), Wild boar - Tuscan way (Waldmann), and Dulce de Leche (Vollhardt), accompanied by biographies and sketches of their current work, this is an exquisite delicacy for anybody who likes cooking, eating and chemistry.

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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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The Catalan Country Kitchen: Food And Wine From The Pyrenees To The Mediterranean Seacoast Of Barcelona Review

The Catalan Country Kitchen: Food And Wine From The Pyrenees To The Mediterranean Seacoast Of Barcelona
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A thoroughly authentic book on Catalan cookery, one of the most refined cuisines of the Mediterranean which evolved in its own original way condensing millenia of history. I can only find fault with the lack of pictures of finished dishes, but otherwise it's a wonderful book.

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A Tale of 12 Kitchens: Family Cooking in Four Countries Review

A Tale of 12 Kitchens: Family Cooking in Four Countries
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When I purchased this book (online) I thought it would be a kind of Peter Mayle food-essay book. Warning: This book is Peter Mayle on steroids. And it is fabulous. What intriguing recipes! But this book is so much more than recipes. The writing is evocative and the stories transcend cultures. The art, of course, adds an interesting element. But my favorite images are the photos of real family kitchens, cluttered with real life and objects used to nourish a family.

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Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories Review

Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories
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What a delightful book!! A mouthwatering book with great "conversation", traveling tidbits, and recipes.
I will definitely make the Gas Company Candy -- too bad today's utility bills aren't "sweetened" with such welcomed inserts.
Since I live in the DC area, I really resonated with (and enjoyed) all the descriptions of the Lexington market, Eastern Market, the delightful La Cuisine, and of course, the inimitable Bawlmor - what great memories (culinary and otherwise) this evoked!!
My only disappointment came when the book ended -- it felt like I was in the middle of eating a GREAT meal and suddenly all the food was taken away from the table! Oh please, if you re-issue this book -- put a picture (in color) of one of those sweet creations you wrote about, like maybe Smith Island Cake, on the last page, so we do not feel such a let-down!!!

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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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A Painter's Kitchen-Revised Edition: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe (Red Crane Cookbook Series) Review

A Painter's Kitchen-Revised Edition: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe (Red Crane Cookbook Series)
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As a fan of Ms. O'Keeffe's since the seventies and even more so once the late Ansel Adams befriended our young son in the eighties, I wanted this cook book because I loved the simplicity of her art work and wanted to see if this carried over into her food choices. Am not disappointed.
Yes, many of the recipes are simple and direct like corn on the bob or kale. But the recipes for Fried Flowers (locust blossoms), Curried Chicken, Biscochitos, and Zabaglione are wonderful. Even wonder if she ever had squash blooms tempura style.
The book is a fun read as well, since the Introduction allows us to learn why she liked certain foods, disliked eating out, what she grew in her large vegetable gardens and how her kitchens were laid out and what they had in them.

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Georgia O'Keeffe, well known for her striking paintings of the Southwest, carried her creativity into the kitchen, where she took great pride in her healthy culinary style. The meals served in her household focused on homegrown and natural foods. They were always tasty, nutritious, modest, and beautifully prepared.A Painter's Kitchen is Margaret Wood's recollection of seventy recipes from Georgia O'Keeffe's kitchen. As Miss O'Keeffe's companion for five years, Wood's responsibilities included, among other things, preparing many of the meals. O'Keeffe directed Miss Wood in the preparation of simple, delicious food using many fresh ingredients and insisted that Wood pay scrupulous attention to every step of food production and preparation. Besides containing recipes from Miss O'Keeffe's kitchen, the book describes in charming detail Miss O'Keeffe's outlook on food, philosophy, life, art, and the world, while maintaining respect for the artist's well-known desire for privacy.Margaret Wood left Miss O'Keeffe's employ in 1982. She was a production weaver for Kozikowski Tapestry Weavers and since 1988 has been a speech/language pathologist. "Lavishly sprinkled with black-and-white photographs of the artist as well as full-color food photos, "A Painter's Kitchen" is a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and stomach."-Mail Order Gourmet"More than just a cookbook, this text describes O'Keeffe's outlook on life and art in 128 pages."-Southwest Art"Here is a way of cooking and eating serene in accumulated wisdom (Miss O'Keeffe was in her nineties at the time the author knew her) and rich in undiminished sensual delight."-Cook BookSample Recipe:During the 1960s and 1970s, many prominent magazines featured interviews with Georgia O'Keeffe, along with photographs of both her houses. During supper one evening she recalled the occasion when a female staff member from one of the magazines had come to the Abiquiu house and was straightening everything up so meticulously that it no longer looked like the painter's house. At one point, when the woman was making every curtain pleat perfect, Miss O'Keeffe could not resist saying to her,

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Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life Review

Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life
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I have been eagerly awaiting Mariel Hemingway's first cookbook since "Healthy Living From the Inside Out," her first publication, was released years ago. I am happy to report that "Mariel's Kitchen" does not disappoint.
This cookbook emphasizes local, fresh and organic ingredients. It is a good companion to "Super Natural Cooking," a similar cookbook by Heidi Swanson.
I enjoy Hemingway's book better, however, for a number of reasons. For a "natural" cookbook, the ingredients here are much more accessible. You won't have to rush out and buy five new kinds of flour and hard-to-find regional ingredients. Also, this book is NOT vegetarian, which I appreciate. I try to eat naturally, but I do not intend to give up chicken, fish, and beef. (Hemingway is mindful to note when vegetarian substitutions can be made for those who feel otherwise.)
Overall, I would recommend this book to any cook interested in farmers' markets, natural cooking, or simply healthful eating. It is full of beautiful pictures, comprehensive lists of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and recipes organized by season. Hemingway also offers some interesting tips on going "green" and how to best utilize local resources.
Highly recommended!

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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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Kitchen Survival Guide Review

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This book does what most cookbooks don't: it assumes that you really know absolutely NOTHING about cooking. For those of us for which that is true, this book is a life-saver. It has recipes for the most basic things (how to hard-boil an egg, for example); it gives you a suggested grocery list for your first shopping trip to stock your new kitchen; it give invaluable advice about choosing fresh food and how to store things. As a recent college grad in my first apartment, I consult this book almost daily (I didn't know that fish, if it's fresh, should have NO smell, or that eggs that have gone bad will float). A perfect graduation gift (or just a gift for someone you sense is really suffering in the kitchen).

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Cuisine a Latina: Fresh Tastes and a World of Flavors from Michy's Miami Kitchen Review

Cuisine a Latina: Fresh Tastes and a World of Flavors from Michy's Miami Kitchen
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A classically trained French chef who grew up in Cuban-flavored Miami with an Argentinean mother and Midwestern father, then lived in New York and spent time in Italy, Bernstein, owner of Michy's in Miami, offers cosmopolitan fare, some of it simple, some much less so.
Like Seared Foie Gras with Mexican Chocolate and Cherries. Or Beet Salad with Blue Cheese Chantilly (Blue cheese mixed with heavy cream). Or Prosciutto-Wrapped Trout Stuffed with Fennel and Leek.
But Shrimp on Toast with Peas, Tomato, and Parsley is a simple comfort food as is Collard Greens with Balsamic and Brown Sugar, or a fragrant braise of Pork with Prunes and Apricots. Angel hair Pasta with Artichoke Hearts, Olives, and Tomatoes could be tossed together after work. Duck Breasts with Oaxacan Mole is complex but, once made, the mole can be refrigerated for three months.
Each recipe is introduced with a bit of culinary evolution, and Bernstein sometimes offers serving suggestions and plating ideas - gorgeous color photos also help with presentation ideas. Lively and ambitious, this is a book for the fairly assured cook.

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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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America's Test Kitchen Light & Healthy: The Year's Best Recipes Lightened Up Review

America's Test Kitchen Light and Healthy: The Year's Best Recipes Lightened Up
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Light & Healthy 2011 offers a fine compendium of the year's best recipes - lightened up and tested for this collection. From a 1960s popular, originally-calorie-laden Chicken Cordon Bleu to Spicy Spaghetti Pie, this is packed with dishes that are old favorites modified for modern times. Extensive descriptions on why they have been altered and how they work make for an outstanding collection suitable for any general lending library.

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