*Cookery Books - Classics and Recommendations
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My mum's Evelyn Rose Complete International Jewish cookbook is a stained pile of barely-held together paper by now - I'm sure she'd heartily recommend that.
She also recommends the one the Evelyn compiled with her daughter a few years back - Mother and Daughter Jewish cooking a mixture of trad and modern stuff!
She also recommends the one the Evelyn compiled with her daughter a few years back - Mother and Daughter Jewish cooking a mixture of trad and modern stuff!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Oh and if you read French, 'Tante Marie' is the classic cookbook that everyone uses in France......and I can't find one so if anyone has a spare.......if I want to check something in Tante Marie I have to ring my mate up who still has the copy she bought when she left home......
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I really like French Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells -- you can often pick it up in bargain bookshops these days for a few quid. For Italian food, The Essentials of Classic Italian Cuisine by Marcella Hazan is an absolute must-have. Claudia Roden's Food of Italy is good as well.
At the moment, I am loving a little paperback I picked up in a bargain bookshop for £2.99. It's Leith's Daily Mail Cookbook -- don't be put off by the title -- it's brilliant for everyday suppers. Last night made Steak Stroganoff from it which elicited groans of delight from Hendo.
At the moment, I am loving a little paperback I picked up in a bargain bookshop for £2.99. It's Leith's Daily Mail Cookbook -- don't be put off by the title -- it's brilliant for everyday suppers. Last night made Steak Stroganoff from it which elicited groans of delight from Hendo.
Elizebeth David is a great read, but as background.
Yup, M.Hazan is a must have. Practical, simple food, of the highest quality.
Roden too, her Meditaranean book is good, but I'd especially recommend her book on Jewish food. You won't cook much out of it but you'll learn a great deal.
Of all the celebrity egg flippers books so popular with the English I'd recomend Alistair Little's Keep It Simple. He explains Mise En Place, and it is the secret of good cooking. Simple labour saving restaurent techniques. It's the really simple things like how to saute a chicken leg, buy fish, or brown onions that make the basis of good cooking.
And of course La R. Gastronomique, to give you a vague idea of how to cook that Ostrich you just ran over.
Yup, M.Hazan is a must have. Practical, simple food, of the highest quality.
Roden too, her Meditaranean book is good, but I'd especially recommend her book on Jewish food. You won't cook much out of it but you'll learn a great deal.
Of all the celebrity egg flippers books so popular with the English I'd recomend Alistair Little's Keep It Simple. He explains Mise En Place, and it is the secret of good cooking. Simple labour saving restaurent techniques. It's the really simple things like how to saute a chicken leg, buy fish, or brown onions that make the basis of good cooking.
And of course La R. Gastronomique, to give you a vague idea of how to cook that Ostrich you just ran over.
Thanks all so far...do I start good threads or what? 
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Elpenor said:
Which, IMHO, is just a load of old lentils.........
My own favourite is Nigella Lawson's "How to Eat". It's impossible to look at it now without thinking of Ronnie Ancona's take-off of the self-styled Domestic Goddess seductively licking her fingers
but the sheer enthusiasm for food & the ideas in it have really changed the way I cook. The quality of the writing makes it very readable & enjoyable too. (She has revolutionised the way I cook veg soup & ratatouille rather than tempted me to try Ham in Coca-Cola, mind you.....)
Col_Buendia
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I've got a shelf full of veggie recipe books, but the only one I think I'd try to save in a fire is the Good Housekeeping veggie one. The recipes really jump out of the page at you and the photos inspire much mouthwateringness... Not too hard to make, but not a dull as Rose Elliot!
Not too hard to make, but not a dull as Rose Elliot!
Wholefoods for the Whole family by Sue Scott
Thats real eating and health if I ever saw it
Thats real eating and health if I ever saw it
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Another vote for Cranks Bibile here - also, Nigel Slater's Appetite is excellent for getting you thinking about experimenting with your own ingredients.
Is there such a thing? I've never met a vegetarian who holds hizbollah-like ideas about nobody ever eating meat. Most of us [Breeders]just wanna get along... just wanna get along... just wanna get along.[/Breeders]. I mean, I dig Hugh, and I respect and admire his anti intensive farming stance, but it seems a bit posturing to pitch your entire polemic against an argument that doesn't really exist.
fanta said:
Is there such a thing? I've never met a vegetarian who holds hizbollah-like ideas about nobody ever eating meat. Most of us [Breeders]just wanna get along... just wanna get along... just wanna get along.[/Breeders]. I mean, I dig Hugh, and I respect and admire his anti intensive farming stance, but it seems a bit posturing to pitch your entire polemic against an argument that doesn't really exist.
Madhur Jaffery's ultimate curry bible is great, and also her world vegetarian cookbook, I made some wicked cypriot mushrooms out of there recently and a sweet potato curry. Mmmmmm! 
There is a cranks carrot cake recipe which is good too, and I have a Delia (I cooked her space muffins - cheers Delia!).
There is a cranks carrot cake recipe which is good too, and I have a Delia (I cooked her space muffins - cheers Delia!).
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
I can divide vegetarian/vegan food into two types; Cooked by people who are passionate about vegetarianism/veganism and that cooked by vegetarians/vegans who are passionate about food.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, I'm with you there fanta....My favourite dish is pasta with crushed fresh garlic, butter and chopped parsley.......sublime.....adding fish or meat just ruins that dish.....
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
The Cookery Year - I've had a copy for years, it's great as a reference book, as well as being full of well tasty recipes. Recipes broken down by month, so it's easy to find recipes for stuff that's 'in season'.
And if we're talking classic cook books, I still swear by some of the recipes in my copy of The [winnie the] Pooh Cook Book - lemon snow, mmmmmm.
And if we're talking classic cook books, I still swear by some of the recipes in my copy of The [winnie the] Pooh Cook Book - lemon snow, mmmmmm.
I love this board. what a thread.
I've only got two cook books, but both are pretty classic:
KUCHNIA POLSKA ("Polish cooking") -
mine is falling to pieces and is from the 1950s. Everything you need to know about Polish cooking.
every Polish mum has one (well, except mine, because I inherited mine from her
</giggle> ).
Written in Polish, I believe there is also a version in English these days - well, the last time I went in the bookshop at POSK (the ugly building just around the corner from Ravenscourt Park tube) they had some in English IIRC.
MADHUR JAFFREY - AN INVITATION TO INDIAN COOKING -
The first cookbook I bought for myself back in the 80s, still with me today despite being covered in tumeric, oil and heaven only knows what. Everything from samosa to lamb rogan josh is covered, has saved me the price of a takeaway on many occasions. nice.
I also used to have a copy of KOSHER CUISINE by Helen Nash, which was pretty good for traditional Jewish cooking (it's like pork-free Polish cooking anyway LOL), but sadly the binding was not of the same standard as the text, so unfortunately it ended up in the recycle bin after about 7 years of use. i must replace it sometime
</mutters to self>
I've only got two cook books, but both are pretty classic:
KUCHNIA POLSKA ("Polish cooking") -
mine is falling to pieces and is from the 1950s. Everything you need to know about Polish cooking.
every Polish mum has one (well, except mine, because I inherited mine from her
</giggle> ).
Written in Polish, I believe there is also a version in English these days - well, the last time I went in the bookshop at POSK (the ugly building just around the corner from Ravenscourt Park tube) they had some in English IIRC.
MADHUR JAFFREY - AN INVITATION TO INDIAN COOKING -
The first cookbook I bought for myself back in the 80s, still with me today despite being covered in tumeric, oil and heaven only knows what. Everything from samosa to lamb rogan josh is covered, has saved me the price of a takeaway on many occasions. nice.
I also used to have a copy of KOSHER CUISINE by Helen Nash, which was pretty good for traditional Jewish cooking (it's like pork-free Polish cooking anyway LOL), but sadly the binding was not of the same standard as the text, so unfortunately it ended up in the recycle bin after about 7 years of use. i must replace it sometime
</mutters to self>
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
<Mrs M falls over in rush to get to a copy>
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Mrs Magpie said:
I knew that would get you going! www.uk.bol.com
I'm a member so I could order it for you if you like. PM me or give me a ring this afternoon.
