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January 8 2012

A Scouting Life: Reblog with the cookbook/food books you couldnt live with out.

acmesalesrep:

rototudor:

Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook/Larousse Gastronomique/Thomas Keller’s “Bouchon”.

Ruhlman’s “Ratio”, though I’m trying to commit the key parts to memory, and (when we’re home) my mom’s thirty-year-old copy of the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. I…

Joy of Cooking, 70th Edition. I have other editions, but that one is far and away the best one.

It’s the bible of (no matter what everyone says about Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking) knowing technique, ingredients and basic recipes that you can use at any time. I consult it constantly — even for recipes I make all the time — as a primer on how to many anything.  If I make a dish from another source, I still read what Joy has to say on the subject.  It’s incredibly readable and never preachy, and many times is, “Yeah, we’ve had failures on this too but this is what made it work.”

  1. philcatelinet reblogged this from samsplace and added:
    I… Lidia Bastianich’s “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen.”...thought I knew how to cook...
  2. acmesalesrep said: “Joy of Cooking” is a fine choice. Lofty choice. Anyone have a copy of the CIA’s “The Professional Chef”? I see it at Costco on occasion and am tempted to pick it up.
  3. sarahsprague reblogged this from samsplace and added:
    I… Joy of Cooking, 70th Edition....have other editions, but that one is far
  4. samsplace reblogged this from acmesalesrep and added:
    Frankie’s Spuntino Kitchen Companion, The River Cottage Meat Book
  5. spinning-around said: The Ina Garten oeuvre (Barefoot Contessa, Barefoot at Home, Barefoot in Paris, Barefoot Contessa Parties), Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, and The Cook’s Country Cookbook. Excellent meme idea, Dr. Ken.
  6. acmesalesrep reblogged this from rototudor and added:
    Ruhlman’s “Ratio”, though I’m trying to commit the key parts to memory, and (when we’re home) my mom’s thirty-year-old...
  7. illustratedexample said: Just got The Family meal by Ferran Adria, I absolutely love Momofuku and Colichio’s Think like a Chef as well. I really need Bouchon though too.
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