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Pandemics Call for Comfort Food, Obviously

Modern Comfort Food: a Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

November 27, 2021 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

One of the things I think about when I’m rating and reviewing cookbooks is: are they a good read? I am of course going to worry about the quality of the recipes, but if the writing is not good there is really no reason to pick up the book – these days the internet will generally be able to provide you with a variety of options for whatever it is you’re on the hunt for, but a well written cookbook will help you understand the […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barefoot Contessa, Comfort Food, cookbook, faintingviolet, Ina Garten, Modern Comfort Food, recipes

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:63 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Barefoot Contessa, Comfort Food, cookbook, faintingviolet, Ina Garten, Modern Comfort Food, recipes ·
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Cursing Cookbooks with some History

Bad Manners Brave New Meal by Bad Manners LLC

November 14, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I read a lot of cookbooks; if there’s one I like and the author has more, I get my hands on them. Once upon a time, I found a cookbook based on a blog/web-site I’d never heard of called Thug Kitchen; it was a vegan cookbook that used a lot of 4-letter curse words, and it had a lot of recipes that I enjoyed. Books 2 and 3 were ok, but I never liked the recipes as well as the original. Then there were no […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: bad manenrs brave new meal, bad manners, Bad Manners LLC, cookbook, thug kitchen, vegan cooking

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:93 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: bad manenrs brave new meal, bad manners, Bad Manners LLC, cookbook, thug kitchen, vegan cooking ·
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Trying to Chef to Hard

Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour to Suit Your Mood by Ed Smith

October 24, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I appreciate the concept of Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour to Suit Your Mood in organizing itself by flavor combination profiles like “fresh and fragrant”, “tart and sour”, chilli and heat”, “spiced and curried”, “rich and savoury”, and “cheesy and creamy”. I like the focus on the idea that not all comfort food is mac and cheese; nothing against that, but sometimes you just want something like “honeyed halloumi with apricot fregola” or “orange blossom melon with frozen raspberries”. I also appreciate that in spite […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: British, cookbook, Crave, Ed Smith

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:87 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: British, cookbook, Crave, Ed Smith ·
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Really Hoping The Food is as Good as it Looks

The Korean Vegan Cookbook by Joanne Lee Molinaro

October 17, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

This might be the first cookbook I’ve preordered; I’m pretty sure that I actually ordered it months ago, and forgot when it was supposed to come out. Then came the shipping notice, and then The Korean Vegan Cookbook. This is actually almost a coffee table book give that it’s a glossy hard cover with lots of pretty pictures. That said, it also looks like it will be a lot of interesting fun to work through. Not only are the recipes pretty doable in terms of […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: cookbook, food photography, joanne lee molinaro, Korean food, the korean vegan cookbook, tik tok star, vegan, vegan cooking

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:85 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: cookbook, food photography, joanne lee molinaro, Korean food, the korean vegan cookbook, tik tok star, vegan, vegan cooking ·
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Book Cover: taste the wild

Recipes and Stories from Canada would be enough

Taste the Wild by Lisa Nieschlag, Lars Wentrup

September 11, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

Bingo 20: Landscape As the cover (pictured above) suggests, this book is about Canada (see wooded landscape in mists) in terms of food (it’s part cookbook) and character (it’s part excerpted prose bits from travel and fiction stories, and photography collection too). I can see how all of this could fit together, except that it doesn’t quite work out. The photos are gorgeous but the sentimental/philosophical sayings accompanying them are so out of context that to me at least they come off as either hollow […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Canada, cbr13bingo, cookbook, food photography, landscape photography, Lars Wentrup, Lisa Nieschlag, photography, stories, Taste the WIld

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:77 · Genres: Cooking/Food, Non-Fiction · Tags: Canada, cbr13bingo, cookbook, food photography, landscape photography, Lars Wentrup, Lisa Nieschlag, photography, stories, Taste the WIld ·
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Cooking my way through this one

East by Meera Sodha

May 23, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I have started to really make an effort to cook my way through a cookbook before looking for a new one; problem is, the cookbook I had planned to start the year with turns out to not be much to my taste. Library browse to the rescue, I think. I picked up East by Meera Sodha, which features both vegan and vegetarian which isn’t a mix you usually see. It focuses on Asia in general, but with a mix of Japanese, Indian, and Chinese cuisines […]

Filed Under: Cooking/Food Tagged With: Asian, Chinese, cookbook, East, indian, japanese, Meera Sodha, vegan, vegetarian

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:44 · Genres: Cooking/Food · Tags: Asian, Chinese, cookbook, East, indian, japanese, Meera Sodha, vegan, vegetarian ·
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