If you don’t know Smitten Kitchen, you’re missing out. It’s a wonderful blog by Deb Perelman. Her own description of her life and times is so charming, I think I should just refer anyone interested to her ‘about’ page. Suffice it to say, I have loved her blog basically forever. She is a legend in…
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Cucina Rustica by Evan Kleiman and Viana La Place
I have loved cooking from this book. My mom has had it since I can remember (it was published in 1990), and gifted me a copy for Christmas/Hanukkah this past year. It’s a quiet classic, and well worth diving into. The truly valuable part of this cookbook is that the rhythm of it encourages…
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, by Samin Nosrat, illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton, is listed on Amazon as a Cooking Encyclopedia. Accurate. It’s basically a cooking course, more about methodology and learning the why of it all than just giving you every recipe ever. Like any course of study, the…
Everyday Dorie by Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan is a marvel. This is a woman who has won five James Beard awards. She has written 13 cookbooks. She has a column for the New York Times, “On Dessert.” If you want to give her a go without the investment of buying a book, you can find some recipes on her website…
Ottolenghi SIMPLE by Yotam Ottolenghi
Yotam Ottolenghi has been massively internationally influential in the last decade. He has changed the way we think about food on a much larger scale than just his own work—he has influenced so many people in the food space that it actually changed the current, moving us collectively more towards vivacious herbs and middle eastern…
Lidia’s Favorite Recipes by Lidia Bastianich
Lidia’s Favorite Recipes, by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali is a down to earth, no frills, beginner friendly Italian cookbook. I thought it would be a good choice for our family of five, and that intuition proved correct. Out of ten recipes made, we were happy with them all. This is Italian comfort…
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