A three-for-one post!
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Category: Cooking
Tasting History by Max Miller
I can confidently recommend this book to anyone else who is fascinated by culinary history, and especially home cooks who’ve always wanted to taste the foods of our distant ancestors but who haven’t been able to translate cryptic old recipes into modern kitchen language for themselves.
Continue readingThe Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman
If you think cooking is a fun hobby, if you like trying new ingredients and combinations, if you want to try something different but not unrealistically complicated — this is the cookbook for you.
Continue readingAppetites by Anthony Bourdain
I’ll say this is a solid choice for people who are already fairly comfortable in the kitchen (not for beginners!), but who want to experiment a little bit under the guidance of a kind of expert madman.
Continue readingThe Big Texas Cookbook by the ed. of Texas Monthly
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who’s interested in the regional cuisines of Texas, whether you’re up for trying some new recipes in your own kitchen or whether you’re the type who just likes to read foodie books for fun.
Continue readingGood Drinks by Julia Bainbridge
The book includes over 50 recipes, each rated with a commitment level ranging from no-brainer, “just give me something tasty to sip immediately” type drinks to intense, “commit a whole day to pretending to be a mad scientist” type drinks.
Continue readingHouston Cooks by Francine Spiering
If you’re a foodie in the Bayou City, you need this book. Heck, I might be biased, but I think it’d be a fine addition to the bookshelf of an adventurous cook anywhere in Texas or on the Gulf Coast.
Continue readingCool Beans by Joe Yonan
This is a cookbook filled with internationally inspired recipes for all kinds of — you guessed it! — beans.
Continue readingIndian-ish by Priya Krishna
I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who is interested in trying recipes for “Indian” food that are actually super accessible to home cooks on this side of the globe.
Continue readingCherry Bombe: The Cookbook ed. by Kerry Diamond & Claudia Wu
I would absolutely recommend this book to any home cook that is looking to experiment a little with something fun or unfamiliar, but not outrageously avant-garde or complicated.
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