Top Chefs weigh in with their favorite cookbooks...scroll through the list...

Would it be fun for each of us to contribute one favourite recipe from one book on the list? (if we

have books to contribute with)

If only owning the books could make us spectacular cooks.

 
Two problems - now I want the ones I don't have & which one to post from?

I have quite a few of them and quite a few favorites out of them so that's a hard choice. But even worse, I REALLY want the ones that these chefs say they use....

 
Wow! The Key to Chinese Cooking by Irene Kuo mentioned twice!

This book is so spotted and stained I have some trouble reading recipes. I first learned the technique of velveting from this book.

 
I just cut & pasted the list so I can go verify which ones I have

They had several at the used bookstore on Wednesday but I think they are the ones I already have.

 
The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern by Claudia Fleming is mentioned twice too...

At the moment the majority of my books are in storage, this is one of a handful I just couldn't bear to pack away.....

 
I like Marg's idea--to post a favorite recipe from the books on the list-but,

could we post more than one? May have a hard time picking a favorite.....

 
And lt's notice good old Joy of Cooking, twice, but it's probably memorized by all anyway. I still

think it's the essential starter for any new cook and I refer to it even now, at least once a month.

 
This brings up something I've wanted to do for a long time. What do you think about

having a section up in T&T dedicated to favorite cookbooks? I'd love to have a single spot where books are listed, and then we could go in and comment on recipes we've tried from it...what our favorite were, etc.

I had a cookbook group and for several years we'd meet once a month. Each person would bring a dish from the same cookbook...and some months we would easily tackle 10-12 dishes from the book. It was a really great way to get a deeper look at the books rather than the one or two recipes I may try randomly.

Which bring me to another point, could we do something like that virtually here? Like we pick one book a month and anyone who wanted to, could make a recipe and chime in on it? Next month, new book.

In our group, we covered books new on the market but after a few chef cookbooks, we hit a number of duds, so we switched to the classics. It was a great way to get into the books....

What do you think?

 
I just checked this out from the library.

I had to go to a neighboring county. Which recipes do you like?

 
Wekick I have only tried a couple of these beautiful looking recipes....

They were all spectacular! Here is what I tried so far:
*Guinness Stout Ginger Cake (I used a loaf pan)
*Lavender Lemon Pound Cake
*Saffron Rice Pudding with Macerated Dried Sour Cherries and Candied Pistachios--WOW!

There are so many more in this book that I want to try, so little time..........

Let us know what you try!

 
Definitely try the Guiness Cake. It stays moist for days...

And uh, I'm kind of on an ice cream kick. Having said that, I'm sure I've made every ice cream and sorbet recipe in the book. Seriously. I don't have the book in front of me at the moment and need to refresh my memory....

A friend of mine was just named one of the top 5 pastry chefs in America and this was one of the books she highly recommended. The techniques in here are great and the directions are very thorough. Icing on the cake is that the results are fabulous!

 
The spine is broken and the pages are dirty but I won't get the updated one.

I've heard some recipes have been "healthyized". And some of them have been removed because they called for lard.

 
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