TorkilHeggstad's Profile

From: Brooklyn, NY USA

Joined: February 3rd, 2010

About me: I really enjoy growing herbs, tomatoes and other edibles on my fire escape and in my office, and I love cooking, especially when I can use produce and herbs from the fire escape garden. Unfortunately I spend more time reading about food than actually cooking it.

Favorite cookbook: Washoku


Latest review:

February 15th, 2010

Phadd Thai Bann Gog from Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking

This recipe produces the best padd thai I have eaten, better than any I have had in restaurants in New York City. One addition we often make is that we cook some shrimp in the mixture of chopped garlic... read more >


recipe reviews (4)
book reviews (1)
useful review votes (6)

TorkilHeggstad's Bookshelf

65 book(s). Click the title of a book to start adding your recipe and book reviews.

TitleTagsRatings & Reviews

The Bread Bible

By Rose Levy Beranbaum
W.W. Norton & Co. - 2003


(18 recipe reviews)
owned by 66 my recipe reviews 0

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

By Marcella Hazan
Knopf - 1992


(89 recipe reviews)
owned by 97 my recipe reviews 0

Daniel Boulud's Cafe Boulud Cookbook: French-American Recipes for the Home Cook

By Daniel Boulud, Dorie Greenspan
Scribner - 1999


(6 recipe reviews)
owned by 14 my recipe reviews 0

The Herbfarm Cookbook

By Jerry Traunfeld
Scribner - 2000


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 18 my recipe reviews 0

Simple French Food

By Richard Olney, Patricia Wells, James Beard
Wiley - 1992


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 19 my recipe reviews 0

Mexico One Plate At A Time

By Rick Bayless
Scribner - 2000


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 42 my recipe reviews 0

Mexican Everyday (Recipes Featured on Season 4 of the PBS-TV series "Mexico One Plate at a Time")

By Rick Bayless, Christopher Hirsheimer, Deann Bayless
W. W. Norton - 2005


(19 recipe reviews)
owned by 50 my recipe reviews 0

Classic Indian Cooking

By Julie Sahni
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1980


(6 recipe reviews)
owned by 26 my recipe reviews 0

Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes

By Jeffrey Hamelman
Wiley - 2004


(1 recipe review)
owned by 17 my recipe reviews 0

Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking

By Julie Sahni
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1985


(1 recipe review)
owned by 11 my recipe reviews 0

Cracking the Coconut: Classic Thai Home Cooking

By Su-mei Yu
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2000


(1 recipe review)
owned by 10 my recipe reviews 1

Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art

By Shizuo Tsuji, M.F.K. Fisher
Kodansha International - 1980


(1 recipe review)
owned by 12 my recipe reviews 0

Norsk sjømat

By Lars Barmen
Kagge forlag - 2001


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 2

Vegetables: The Most Authoritative Guide to Buying, Preparing, and Cooking with More than 300 Recipes

By James Peterson
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1998


(1 recipe review)
owned by 21 my recipe reviews 0