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A problem of too much cake and spoilers

The Big Book of Amazing Cakes by The Baking Show Team

January 19, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I am a little bit glad that Netflix now runs the most current Great British Baking Show because I don’t have to worry as much about spoilers and cookbooks. A few seasons/years ago, I had to be out of town for about two weeks in the middle of when a season was airing, ended up in a bookstore in London, and found out that Nadiya had won the season because she had a new cookbook out on display. This past season I also got spoiler-ed […]

Some Salads Show Up, Some Could Just Stay Home

Show Up for Salad by Terry Hope Romero

November 3, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 3 Comments

I have attempted a new rule when it comes to cookbooks: I am not allowed to open a new one which I may have recently bought until I finish working my way through, insofar as is possible) the current one. I’m not always good at this personal rule, but recently it seems to have been working. I somehow missed that Salad Samurai had a sequel, Show Up For Salad, so I had to grab it for use as a lunch for the next several months […]

A Hit and A Miss

Food Swings by Jessica Seinfeld

My Greek Table by Diane Kochilas

September 14, 2019 by Manimama 6 Comments

CBR11 Bingo: Collection A friend got me Jessica Seinfeld’s Food Swings for Christmas. It made me seriously question our friendship at the time. My friend is very much into celebrity-adjacent, Real Housewives-type stuff; I very much am not. I decided to try out a couple of recipes this past month before giving it away, and I have to take back every uncharitable thought I had about this gift. Jessica Seinfeld must have been anticipating people like me, because she even writes a section in the […]

Untested Triple-Threat-ish

Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

May 10, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Personal current rule: I am not allowed to start working through a new cookbook until I finish with the current one. I’m close, and should be able to start a new cookbook by about mid-June. That hasn’t stopped me from building up a small pile of potential successors, including Indian-ish. This means that I have read through the book, but not yet tried anything from it. This book is really three things at once: an introduction to Indian cooking (both in terms of ingredients and […]

Eating By Yourself Can Be Cool

Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One by Anita Lo

March 31, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I would really like to meet Anita Lo some day. I’ve seen her on a few competition cooking shows, but this is the first cookbook of hers I’ve gone and picked up. Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One is pretty unique in that it not only focuses on small batch recipes as well as how to use as much of certain ingredients as possible (sometimes saving for another day or recipe), but also is very direct about eating by oneself. I’ve seen […]

The cookbook I never knew I always wanted, mostly

Smith & Deli-Cious: Food from Our Deli (that Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse

January 27, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

This is a thing I didn’t know I had been waiting for: a vegan cookbook that has no shame in noting that one of the authors and apparently main recipe developer is not vegan! According to the intro, which also does the standard how to stock a vegan pantry to use this book thing, both Mo Wyse and Shannon Martinez (who is the still not vegan- you are my peoples!- but likes the food and the challenge of adapting) were feeling limited by their single […]

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