The best of the latest cookbooks

New cookbooks reviewed and rated.

French Kitchen, Serge Dansereau

July 20, 2011
Serge Dansereau's French Kitchen: Classic Recipes for Home Cooks

It’s easy to forget just how influential French cooking is, how it’s still widely regarded as the ‘mothership’ of cuisines, the place where all the best techniques, the best ideas, the best recipes come from. If I had to choose just one cuisine and eat it for evermore, it’d be French. That might sound treacherous [...]

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The Ginger Pig Meat Book, Tim Wilson and Fran Warde

June 18, 2011
The Ginger Pig Meat Book Tim Wilson and Fran Wardle

Good meat is important. If you’re going to eat an animal, the least you can do is to make sure that it was treated well when it was alive, and that you use its meat with care and respect. Can you always do this, though?  Do you get a clear picture of where your meat [...]

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Turkey – Recipes and Tales From the Road, Leanne Kitchen

June 1, 2011
Leanne Kitchen's Turkey - Recipes and Tales from the Road

I’ve been lucky enough to chance across a series of excellent cookbooks lately, all of which share a similar quality. They’re not just about food. Food might be their reason for existing, but this clutch of books have more, they have a feeling about them, a feeling that the author has got under the skin [...]

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Grillhouse: Gastropub at Home, Ross Dobson

April 13, 2011
Grillhouse: Gastropub at Home - Ross Dobson book review

There’s a rather apologetic introduction to Ross Dobson’s book, Grillhouse, where the author dances around the fact that much of what’s to come feels a little retro and old-fashioned.  Dobson argues that “we’ve never stopped enjoying classic, simple, hearty food.  It may have been a while since it graced the covers of the foodie magazines [...]

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My Kitchen: Real Food From Near and Far, Stevie Parle

March 19, 2011
Stevie Parle's My Kitchen: Real Food From Near and Far

“The truly delicious things are not always those that cost a fortune, but those that have been passed from generation to generation; you can taste their integrity.” Stevie Parle’s book My Kitchen: Real Food from Near and Far isn’t constrained by geography.  This isn’t a collection of recipes with a defined focus on a particular [...]

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How Not to Get Fat – Your Daily Diet, by Ian Marber

January 22, 2011
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Ian Marber, the nutritional therapist behind The Food Doctor brand of healthy food products and clinics, is a mainstay of daytime TV and magazine and newspaper food and wellbeing columns.  He released his first book in 1999, and has published regularly ever since. How Not to Get Fat – Your Daily Diet is Marber’s latest [...]

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Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food

January 5, 2011
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I was leafing through a few cookbooks this morning when I stumbled across my copy of Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food. What struck me about it were the number of scraps of paper sticking out of the top, each bookmarking something I wanted to cook. Little scraps of paper jammed between pages is [...]

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Momofuku, by David Chang and Peter Meehan

December 8, 2010
A review of David Chang's brilliant cookbook, Momofuku

There are things we say in the kitchen, a codified lexicon, that explain some of the kitchen mentality at Ko. “Make it soigne” means make it right and make it perfect. It’s something you hear a lot in traditional French kitchens.  No mistakes, no misunderstandings. Make it the best. Do not fuck it up. It’s [...]

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