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Great Wine Made Simple: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier 53 reviews
Andrea Robinson
Broadway, 2005
A near perfect introduction to wine for beginning and experienced wine drinkers
Andrea Immer Robinson's Great Wine Made Simple (2005) succeeds brilliantly in making sense of the complex worlds of wine. I have read several introductions to wine, including Michael Broadbent's Michael Broadbent's Wine Tasting (Mitchell Beazley Wine Guides), Jancis Robinson's How to Taste: A Guide to Enjoying Wine, Mark Oldman's Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to ...
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From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine30 reviews
Jeff Cox
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
Almost perfect
This book tells you everything about growing grapes and producing fine wine. It even deals with the choice of grape-varieties suited for your climate. It is almost perfect. I think many Europeans will read this book, and it would have been perfect if it included the Meditteranean countries in the tables of climate-zones and selection of suitable varieties. It is very difficult to find this ...
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The Pastry Queen: Royally Good Recipes from the Texas Hill Country's Rather Sweet Bakery & Cafe50 reviews
Rebecca Rather, Alison Oresman
Ten Speed Press, 2004
Yummmmmmm!
Just the recipe of the ALL SOLD OUT CHICKEN POT PIES alone is reason enough to buy this book. They are incredible!
The Texas tortilla soup is a favorite. The desserts are extra yummy too.
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American Wholefoods Cuisine: Over 1300 Meatless, Wholesome Recipes from Short Order to Gourmet36 reviews
Nikki Goldbeck, David Goldbeck
Plume, 1984
American Wholefoods Cuisine
Trying to find a good all round vegetarian cookbook is quite a difficult task. Many of the vegetarian cookbooks I've come across are either gourmet and not really suitable for everyday meals or full of bland tofu recipes that resemble cardboard in taste and texture. Finding recipes that use only whole foods is even more difficult. I've only come across one or two good ones that had maybe a half ...
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime in Cooking (Random House Large Print ...31 reviews
Julia Child
Random House Large Print, 2000
What a wonderful cookbook!
This instantly became my favorite cookbook and I use it so much that it doesn't spend much time on the shelf. This cookbook transcends the "collection of recipes" style of most cookbooks; its style is more "how to improve your cooking skills."
Even so, some of my very favorite recipes are in this book. All the recipes adaptable and are presented in a way to make your own adaptations ...
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Vegan Fusion World Cuisine: Healing Recipes and Timeless Wisdom from our Hearts to Yours77 reviews
Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi
Beaufort Books, 2007
Vegan Heaven
I've tried about half of these recipes and had good success. Breads, pastas, pizzas, salads, dressings, deserts - it's all here. This is vegan heaven!
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Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours50 reviews
Trisha Yearwood
Clarkson Potter, 2008
southern down home cooking at its best!
I thought this was a fun cookbook to read. Loved the little blurbs and intros for each one with personal notes from her family. That is what great family recipes are, they arent just the bowl or plate of food, they are a living history of a family passed from one generation to another. I was so surprised to find my stepmom Millie's (from Georgia)exact Broccoli Salad recipe in this book. She ...
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Bon Appetit, Y'All: Recipes and Stories from Three Generations of Southern Cooking48 reviews
Virginia Willis
Ten Speed Press, 2008
Wonderful Cookbook
Last night I had the opportunity to experience Virginia Willis making some of her delicious recipes from her new book, Bon Appetite, Y'All. Not only was she charmingly delightful, her Southern style, mixed with French cuisine,was refreshing to me. My daughter and I were entertained with stories and recipes from her mother and grandmother. As she read the introduction to her book, I was flooded ...
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Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford ...51 reviews
Jan Karon
Viking Adult, 2004
Fun!
If you've read the Mitford Series, you will want this book. Even if you don't try any of the recipes, it's a fun book to read.
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What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - ...35 reviews
Andrew Dornenburg, Karen Page
Bulfinch, 2006
Best of breed
I may run out of superlatives in the course of this review, so I'm just warning you now. What to Drink with What You Eat is absolutely the most spectacular book ever written about pairing food with wine. It will turn you instantly into a world-class sommelier, confidently able to pair virtually any cuisine with a compatible choice. What's more, the recommendations extend far beyond wine to ...
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Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook27 reviews
Martha Hall Foose
Clarkson Potter, 2008
Great cookbook
This is a wonderful cookbook. The recipes are easy to make, and the book is very beautiful. Great pictures and stories. I read the whole thing from cover to cover without putting it down! Loved it!
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Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens27 reviews
Marcia Adams
Clarkson Potter, 1988
Cooking From Quilt Country is perfection
Cooking From Quilt Country is by far the best cookbook (and I have many) that I have ever seen. Whether you want to lose weight or gain weight , recipies can be adapted for your own use and taste . Best of all, recipies can be done "by the book itself". I would honestly say this could be the only cookbook one woulld ever need and definitely would make a lovely gift!
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New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants28 reviews
Molly O'Neill
Workman Publishing Company, 1992
New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants
Cooks Magazine recommended this cookbook as being very authentic. I bought it because of their review. They were absolutely right. The recipes are original/authentic New York complete with history and original photos. It's a great read even if you never make any of the recipes.
I highly recommend this book.
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The Wise Guy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes From My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run27 reviews
Henry Hill, Priscilla Davis, ..., 2002
Excellent
Im not a gourmet, and im about as far from Italian as you can get. I am however a huge fan of Italian cuisine and have sampled it coast to coast in many parts of the country (no im not talking about Olive Garden..im talking about Italian food..:))
Maybe its the satisfaction of creating ones own meal, or imagining what it would have been like to grow up in Brooklyn while the smell of mom's ...
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Cooking for Madam: Recipes and Reminiscences from the Home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis28 reviews
Marta Sgubin
Scribner, 1998
Great format
This is an amazing book. You feel like you're right there in the home with them. The public Mrs. Onassis was a very graceful and dignified lady. This book gives you a little peek at another side. I really enjoyed reading that she enjoyed looking at Marta's seed catalogs every spring. Because of these 2 ladies, John and Caroline grew into some very nice adults. The food pictures are so ...
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The Gift of Southern Cooking: Recipes and Revelations from Two Great American Cooks25 reviews
Edna Lewis, Scott Peacock
Knopf, 2003
Edna Lewis was wonderful
I have all of the late Edna Lewis's cookbooks. She wrote so beautifully and her recipes never fail. This is one of her best. I highly recommend it.
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The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food26 reviews
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
William Morrow Cookbooks, 1992
One of THE best cookbooks
I'm surpised no one has reviewed this book yet. A winner of prestigous book awards, I say without question that this is my favorite cookbook. (Julia Child's The Way to Cook comes in a close second)..I was working in a high-end Italian restaurant in San Franciso that also sold fresh food, Italian wines, and great cookbooks. The author was there to prepare dishes from this book, so I got to meet ...
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New England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation's Best Purveyor of Fine Soup27 reviews
Marjorie Druker, Clara Silverstein
Thomas Nelson, 2007
The best soup cookbook ever
The New England Soup Factory cookbook is fantastic. I tried the Split Pea soup and it was so delicious - restaurant quality. I was so excited to serve it to my husband. He loved it! The recipes are easy to follow. I even resurrected my immersion blender. I highly recommend this book.
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Last Dinner On the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner26 reviews
Rick Archbold, Dana McCauley
Hyperion, 1997
A social history snapshot that just happens to be a cookbook
After almost 100 years, the Titanic disaster continues to fascinate historians and the general public. The snapshot of Edwardian culture is nowhere more apparent than the famous "last meal" that Sunday. Thanks to menus kept by survivors as mementos, and some indepth research, Mr. Archbold has written up the dishes served in all three classes as recipes that, theoretically at least, anyone can ...
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From Mom with Love - A Complete Guide to Indian Cooking and Entertaining25 reviews
Pushpa Bhargava
Crest Books, 2007
Not daunting and easy to follow recipes
I have over 10 cookbooks in my pantry that claim to be the 'best' Indian cookbooks around. So, skeptical of adding yet another book to an already overcrowded shelf of unused cookbooks, I made the purchase...mainly becuase the pictures and recipes just looked so delicious...and my strong desire to have good home-made Indian food. When I tried out a recipe...I noticed that the directions were easy ...
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