cookbooks

A great resource here if you are interested in vintage cookery books and recipes: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/browse.cfm#A

This Saturday I went to a literary festival, and specifically to attend a talk by a food blogger who wrote a cookbook on the back of her blog last year. Her name is Kate Young and her blog is about recreating meals from novels that she's read - from classics to modern literature. I find this...

Anyone else here a fan of Elizabeth David? My Mum who is a great cook had several of her books and I've since bought copies for myself. I love French food and she wrote quite a lot about that. I saw this news item about her which reminded me because I was only a baby when Spices Salt and...

Do you read your cookery books? I mean actually read them for pleasure - not just use them to look up a recipe or to consult when short of an idea for dinner. Have you ever read a cookery book from cover to cover? I'm not sure I've ever sat and read one all the way through - but I certainly do...

Does anyone have one of THESE? I was thinking about getting one. had one before. What style do you have, if you have one? :wink:

I mentioned before I'm a big Nigella fan so I wondered who here has either got her new book (At My Table) and/or has been watching her new series on the BBC? What do you think of of it? Have you made anything from the series/book? Is there anything you are planning on making? I got the book...

Do you collect or own vintage cookery books? Perhaps you inherited them or maybe (like me) you are old enough for the books you purchased new to now be vintage! Do you still use the recipes. I have a number of books which are vintage to me from the mainly, Victorian or early to mid 20th century...

@Elawin Definitely a book would be my choice as well .. My books need an apartment of their own literally ! The Flavor Bible is an amazingly extraordinary book .. I picked it up at Yearly International Book Fair held in all of Spain between Late May to June 18th every year...

I recently purchased this book, and I have to say it's been transformative in how I approach cooking. Over the years, I've wanted to learn new techniques and try new cuisines and use fancy new pieces of equipment. And, while this has been fun and exciting, I don't know if it's made me a better...

I just found once a month cooking. It is a total and complete joke. Sorry but putting bread crumbs in one bag, cheese in another bag, and raw meat in a third bag, then taping the 3 bags together is not cooking. Another one was freeze the bread in one bag, the cheese in another and the...

Along the lines of do they(cooking books) ever go out of fashion. How many still have, or have access to, ones with anything other than broad catagorgies at the front only? Okay they couldn't cover everything, but it was a starting point with nearly every reference book. Has the format of...

Hi everyone, My mom wrote a cookbook of aphrodisiac recipes out of Eastern Europe. She spent around ten years gathering all unique recipes and foods in one place. We’re looking for beta readers to help us to improve the book before publishing it. We'd love to have your opinion on it :) Once...

As per the title really. I have been asked what I want for Christmas and my birthday. I couldn't initially come up with anything until I realised I have been putting together a cookbook list of those I want. And suddenly it occurred to me. How dense can I be? I have this list and people are...

A couple of weeks ago I brainstormed the idea of creating my own cookbook and giving it to my kids somewhere down the road. My mom has been giving me recipes for years for the foods I loved the most growing up. I want to create a book of our favorite recipes and make a scrapbook out of it with...

I've started buying old cookbooks when I can find them cheap, and my favorite thing I've picked up is a translation of Elena Molokhovets' A Gift for Young Housewives. It's a Russian cookbook that was published in the 1800s and early 1900s. It's hard for me to work with cookbooks that old, but...

I'm thinking of putting together my own little cookbook at some point, but wondered are people using the website more? Do people only buy books by celebrity chefs or offer them as free downloads and then encourage them to their website? I've seen some e-books that are quite expensive and wonder...