*Cookery Books - Classics and Recommendations

[catrina]

The most recent edition of The Joy of Cooking is good because it has everything you could possibly imagine in it. It's more reliable for the baking and sweets than the savoury stuff, though.

I use the Williams-Sonoma cookbooks, too, I have Pasta, Salad, and Sauce. The pasta one is especially good.

Cesare Casella's True Tuscan has some seriously awesome chocolate desserts.

I have Turkish Cooking, but it's just OK, I'm sure there's a better one out there I should have bought.

To be honest I use google more than my own cookbooks, I like to look at a variety of recipes from different sources to get a consensus on what's authentic and tasty.

 

[Ms T]

There's a curry cookbook that I want - came out recently, had summat like 50 'authentic Indian curries'

It came recommended, I looked at it liked, forgot what it was called.

Sorry to be vague

Birthday is coming and I want it - anybody?

I think the one you're after is 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi.

 

[Ms T]

I have Turkish Cooking, but it's just OK, I'm sure there's a better one out there I should have bought.

Try Claudia Roden. I have her new one, Arabesque, which is Turkish/Moroccan/Lebanese, and it's great.

 

[JTG]

I think the one you're after is 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi.

Yeah, just found it and bought it 'cos I can't wait for my birthday.

I'll have to buy lots of ingredients now...

 

[Cid]

The Constance spry cookery book is an awesome tome - 1260 pages of cooking, mostly British dishes with the more common European ones. Excellent recipes and a great guide if you've forgotten the roasting times for something or need to look up a specific type of pastry etc.