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What makes a cookbook a clunker and what do you do with them?
I’ve decided to get rid of one of my clunkers…..375 Sensational Splenda Recipes is taking up too much shelf space. I only bought the book because my husband, who has an extreme sweet tooth (3 tsp in coffee or tea!!!), decided years ago that Splenda …

Comment by Zosia December 2012 permalink
Ottolenghi cookbooks
Definitely Ottolenghi - it's not just my favourite of the 3, but it's currently my favourite cookbook. I bought it after I had cooked extensively from Plenty and as a non-vegetarian who loves to bake, was thrilled to see the characteristic…

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New Cookbooks - 2012
Yet another list.....this one from people who have actually cooked from the books! http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/12/best-cookbooks-from-2012-food-gifts-favorite-books.html?ref=search

Comment by Zosia December 2012 permalink
Next challenge?
Thank you, wester, that's good to know. kateq, that looks like a wonderful book - you were lucky to score a copy......it's not currently available through the North American retailers I checked.

Comment by Zosia November 2012 permalink
Next challenge?
Japanese sounds like an exciting challenge! Wester, have you had a chance to look at the recipes in Nobu….do they seem doable for the home cook with no experience with this cuisine? Based on my recent experiences with Ming Tsai, who hasn’t scaled t…

Comment by Zosia November 2012 permalink
my personal cookbooker challenge
I picked up the book today.......organization is very different but seems to work. The recipes are less Asian than I expected but I think my family will enjoy them. Unfortunately, about 10 pages have been excised from the book, all of which have mas…

Comment by Zosia November 2012 permalink
What makes a cookbook a clunker and what do you do with them?
I definitely hang on to my clunkers….I figure I had a good reason for buying them and even if I can’t remember what it was, they deserve a place on my shelves! One of my clunkers is Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. It’s a highly rated cookboo…

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my personal cookbooker challenge
Sounds like a forum topic ….what makes a cookbook a clunker and what do you do with them? Wok with Yan was one of my first cookbooks; it taught me how to cook rice, use a wok and hold chopsticks so has great sentimental value and a place on my shelv…

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my personal cookbooker challenge
I've been a fan of Ming Tsai since his "East Meets West" tv series but have never tried his recipes. I'm just about done working through A Taste of Canada and I see that there are several library copies of Simply Ming available..…

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New Cookbooks - 2012
Thank you for the link friederike....I'll have to refer to it when I try to navigate the recipes for baked goods from my "Americanized" editions of Jerusalem and Jamie Oliver's Great Britain, both of which have listed all-purpose…

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Healthy / Lo-Cal Challenge Ideas
Thank you Andrew! Congratulations to the other winners and thanks to everyone who participated and made this challenge so much fun!

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Healthy / Lo-Cal Challenge Ideas
I really enjoyed participating in this challenge and reading everyone's reviews. Though the recipes weren't particularly difficult/ "challenging" to make, I'm happy to have been introduced to an author that I can rely on for…

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Next challenge?
Now that the Martha Shulman challenge has come to an end, any further thoughts on the next one? I borrowed the Olive and the Caper from the library as well as Food from Many Greek Kitchens by Tessa Kiros to take a look at them. There are similarit…

Comment by Zosia November 2012 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
Thanks very much Andrew.

Comment by Zosia October 2012 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
kateq, I also had difficulty with the link but was able to do it from the UK version to mine. And, yes, I do love his books and this new one is no exception!

Comment by Zosia October 2012 permalink
Site improvements & suggestions
Andrew, a little problem has arisen regarding the multiple editions of the book Jerusalem. When I went to connect mine to the 2 editions already listed, I saw that the book was also connected to the book “Ottolenghi”. I disconnected my edition of Je…

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How do you start a cookbook club?
Glad to hear that your cookbook club is still going strong and am very curious about that cookbook.

Comment by Zosia October 2012 permalink
Next challenge?
I love the flavours of Mediterranean food but have only dabbled in Greek cuisine so a challenge with this book would be great, and if it's a good read as well, even better.

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New Cookbooks - 2012
nobody complains about my scones. What is it they say...."If it ain't broke, don't fix it"! :)

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New Cookbooks - 2012
bunyip, thanks for your description of Nigel Slater’s style as I’m not too familiar with him. One of the reviewers on amazon uk listed all of the recipes in the book – so many of them look wonderful and it sounds as though the book is a good read as…

Comment by Zosia October 2012 permalink
New Cookbooks - 2012
friederike, British "plain" flour is most similar to our cake/pastry flour here (Canada) in terms of protein content but is unbleached. My first efforts were with a low protein (10%) bleached flour; the results weren't disastrous but …

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
New Cookbooks - 2012
For the most part, I would agree that ingredients aren't very different with the exception of flour, which is why I mentioned baked goods specifically. I've had a few failures baking from the book Ottolenghi - my only experience so far bak…

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
New Cookbooks - 2012
kateq, thank you for the link (I think ;) ). I already have Burma on preorder because of this thread and now I see more that I'd like. I'm really tempted by Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries 2, which isn't available here until Oct …

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
what's the matter with the searchbox?
Both are working now for me.......thank you for fixing them.

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
what's the matter with the searchbox?
I'm having the same difficulty as wester with this search function. I'm also having a problem with links on the cookbooker challenge page......when I click on a recipe in the "recent reviews" column, I get the "404 not foun…

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
New Cookbooks - 2012
I've found a few more to add to my wish list: Burma and We love Madeleines. I'm a huge fan of the Naomi Duguid and Jeffrey Alford books which are so much more than just cookbooks - Burma is Naomi's 1st solo effort. And I have a madel…

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
New Cookbooks - 2012
I just received Baked Elements and am having a lot of fun with it.....the chapters are organized according to (the authors' favourite) ingredient which is helpful to me as my baking choices are often ingredient driven. I have Ottolenghi's…

Comment by Zosia September 2012 permalink
cookbook author's restaurants
QS, thank you for this thread - though my bookshelf may not as it has to make way for yet another addition. ;) Because of it, I ordered a "used" (it's actually new) copy of Lumiere, the book I regretted not buying, and have just rec…

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problems with adding a photo
It is working now...thank you.

Comment by Zosia August 2012 permalink
problems with adding a photo
Andrew, Here are a couple of them: http://www.cookbooker.com/recipe/33155/chocolate-pizza http://www.cookbooker.com/recipe/33201/braised-spare-ribs-with-black-beans-geschmorte-rippchen-mit-fermentierten

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