Only cookbook fanatics will understand my delight at finding this old gem for 50 cents today

Aha! That's why the Italian Sausage Pasta Salad recipe from his pasta cookbook says to

peel the peppers. I'd never heard of peeling peppers and assumed he meant to roast and peel and that's what I've always done. However, I was always puzzled as to why the recipe didn't give instructions for roasting as he is usually more thorough than that. I now think he meant to literally peel them, so funny. The salad is great with them roasted and peeled, but I'm going to have to try it the other way.

I wish I could have been in your class. I've read that he might have been as important as Julia Child in television food history, except that he was uncomfortable with the cameras and not as eloquent as she.

 
James was already in poor health, but still an amazing force (more)

It was his committment to American ingredients and the breadth of his knowledge that was most striking.
He could tell you to peel peppers and extoll the virtues of fresh corn on the cob. What a contrast to the "classic" French cuisine!! with aspics, etc.
Without James, Julia and the long line of TV chefs would have had a hard time "educating" the hordes.

 
Thanks, saved. Checked and the ones they had were through Amazon, I ordered enough for free shipping

 
I took one on the subway once. It was a large book on international breads. Not so

much a recipe book but a current and historical document on breads.

But normally, I just spend about 10 minutes to see what a book has to offer, and categorize it in my head so that I can access it later for specific ideas.

I think I'm a waste of paper.

 
Our Friends Library book sale just started - going there on the way home....

going to try to be good and see if I can't pick up some of the TL for Richard in Cincy and not too many for my collection (don't tell DH!)

Found a 2,800+sf log cabin kit that a guy says he just HAS to get rid of - he's about 1/3 off retail now which is almost what they wanted for the 800+sf one I saw yesterday. Bigger than I wanted but for the right price, more rooms for my cookbooks and me if DH kicks me out of the house, right........ Any one want to come for the "Little Cooking Cabin in the Little Woods" 'barn raising'????

 
i'm more likely to pick up a cookbook than a novel these days! love re-reading the oldies.

 
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