Got some cookbooks in the mail from half.com, so now I have more than 101 cookbooks. I like half.com alot, they give you a shipping discount when you buy multiple things from the same seller; once I find something I want, I always go through the person's inventory and see if they have anything else that looks interesting. Anyway, got:
Jamie at Home, Cook with Jamie, the Ethnic Paris Cookbook, Easy Exotic, West Coast Cooking, Crescent City Cooking, Nigella Express, Lidia's Italy.
Both of the Jamie Oliver books are interesting. I like him alot, more below. I'm excited to read Nigella Lawson's book as I've seen her shows occasionally and heard her on NPR, but haven't read her yet. Lidia Bastianich is supposed to be right up there with Marcella Hazan when it comes to italian food, so her cookbook should be great, too. Easy Exotic is by Padma Lakshmi, I loved her show on the food network, we'll see how the book is. The rest were cheap but well reviewed on Amazon, so what the heck.
Ok. Jamie. I could cook pretty well before I saw his initial show on the food network, but he really has had a huge influence on me since. I have a pasta machine because of him. I own a tart pan because of him. I make yogurt because of him. I buy organic because of him. There's an absolutely killer fish served on warm polenta dish I make that is out of one of his books. He is really enthusiastic, but he also really knows how to cook, he isn't just a pretty face. He's got 8 cookbooks out, with only one of them being a dog (Jamie's Dinners is uninteresting to me). The photos are great, recipes are interesting, he's a good writer, blahblahblah. The two I just got are his two most recent ones, and they are great, no let down in quality as he ages, he isn't getting lazy. Anyway, he has a rant in the beginning of Cook with Jamie that I feel like I could have written, and it goes well with the "Every food purchase we make is a political act" ethos from Food, Inc:
in this book i'm going to be brutally frank at times and tell you how i think it is... it always amazes me how these days people can be totally up-to-speed and knowledgeable about so many different things - computers, music, fashion - but they don't give a toss about what they put in their mouths everyday. If it's meat, they don't care where the animal has come from, how it's been reared or what it's been fed on. If you walk around your average supermarket, even though big efforts have been made, there are still lots of products riddled with additives, hydrogenated fats, and a whole catalogue of fillers -- fake food. What I want to try and do with this book is make cooking and eating real food, natural food, healthy food, normal again... I do think we've reached a critical point in history now - the way we produce and cook our food is going to radically affect what the next generation grows up on... I want you to have fun, not just from cooking and eating, but also from sharing your food with others.
Bueno
Jamie at Home, Cook with Jamie, the Ethnic Paris Cookbook, Easy Exotic, West Coast Cooking, Crescent City Cooking, Nigella Express, Lidia's Italy.
Both of the Jamie Oliver books are interesting. I like him alot, more below. I'm excited to read Nigella Lawson's book as I've seen her shows occasionally and heard her on NPR, but haven't read her yet. Lidia Bastianich is supposed to be right up there with Marcella Hazan when it comes to italian food, so her cookbook should be great, too. Easy Exotic is by Padma Lakshmi, I loved her show on the food network, we'll see how the book is. The rest were cheap but well reviewed on Amazon, so what the heck.
Ok. Jamie. I could cook pretty well before I saw his initial show on the food network, but he really has had a huge influence on me since. I have a pasta machine because of him. I own a tart pan because of him. I make yogurt because of him. I buy organic because of him. There's an absolutely killer fish served on warm polenta dish I make that is out of one of his books. He is really enthusiastic, but he also really knows how to cook, he isn't just a pretty face. He's got 8 cookbooks out, with only one of them being a dog (Jamie's Dinners is uninteresting to me). The photos are great, recipes are interesting, he's a good writer, blahblahblah. The two I just got are his two most recent ones, and they are great, no let down in quality as he ages, he isn't getting lazy. Anyway, he has a rant in the beginning of Cook with Jamie that I feel like I could have written, and it goes well with the "Every food purchase we make is a political act" ethos from Food, Inc:
in this book i'm going to be brutally frank at times and tell you how i think it is... it always amazes me how these days people can be totally up-to-speed and knowledgeable about so many different things - computers, music, fashion - but they don't give a toss about what they put in their mouths everyday. If it's meat, they don't care where the animal has come from, how it's been reared or what it's been fed on. If you walk around your average supermarket, even though big efforts have been made, there are still lots of products riddled with additives, hydrogenated fats, and a whole catalogue of fillers -- fake food. What I want to try and do with this book is make cooking and eating real food, natural food, healthy food, normal again... I do think we've reached a critical point in history now - the way we produce and cook our food is going to radically affect what the next generation grows up on... I want you to have fun, not just from cooking and eating, but also from sharing your food with others.
Bueno
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