Cookbook project

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

Those of you who follow will be astonished to learn that I have completed the first fifth of my cookbook project. The reward for this is that I get to buy a cookbook, and I had planned to buy a Columbian cookbook. However, the book I had in mind has sold out. This is where you come in....


FWIW, I have a reasonable representation from European countries, and also from Asian. I have only one American book, and the whole of Africa is conspic by its a, which seems an error. (Actually, there are some African recipes in my Middle Eastern book, which was written by an Egyptian, and also in the Madhur Jaffrey world book of vegetarian cook, which is a fabulous book and I heartily recommend it. but Africa is big. Also, there's a Desmond Tutu pan-African book which seems like a good thing, to be encouraged.)

[Poll #1369429]

Comments, of course, entirely welcome.

TIA.

Comments

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Yum, food. I roast a chicken today, that suffered from the thing chickens occasionally do of Not Wanting To Cook, Dammit. (Where you cook it for the recommended time + some, at the recommended temperature [gradually increased in desperation] until the sodding thing decides to cook.) The first time this happened to me, I thought I'd failed as a cook, until my mother (who has regularly roast chickens for 40+ years said, 'Oh yes, that happens from time to time. Never quite worked out why.'

The Pan-African book sounds interesting.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I think it's a plot to make sure the vegetables become over cooked.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Cherry cake and ginger beer sounds fun, if not entirely healthy.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

I put 'something else', but meant 'I don't know'. After all, you have lots of cooking books, and no space for any more...

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

One of these things is actually true. There is plenty of room for more on the shelf. (Mostly I use these polls as ways of deciding what I want, by working out which answer I'm rooting for.)

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

In that case, I recommend Appetite, by Nigel Slater.

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Claudia Rodin's Middle East Cookery is a great book. I've had it for about 40 years, since marrying a Syrian. There are anecdotes with the recipes too.

I used to love Katharine Whitehorn's Cooking in a Bedsitter for one pan easy but tasty recipes and then the Penguin Cordon Bleu, but you wanted not European.

Oh hang on, re-reading your post you have a middle eastern one by an Egyptian, is that Claudia Rodin?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I have both those books :) Yes, it's the Claudia Rodin one. I do like it a lot.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

I'm onto my second copy of Cooking in a Bedsitter. I still use it occasionally, even with a family of four.

Me too

[badriya.livejournal.com]

Cooking in a Bedsitter fell to bits and I got a second hand one and Capt Ex got the Middle East Cookery in the divorce so I bought another one.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

For retro goodness, I still heartily endorse good old Mrs Beeton, which has a good spread of international dishes I'm working through. Or possibly Marguerite Patten's Cookery In Colour, if only for the hilariously overcoloured plates. But then I'm a retro chef kind of gal ;)

You have reminded me I should make you banoffee pie again. *makes ingredients shopping list*

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

That sounds nice.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I have the River Cottage Cookbook which is really great at explaining where food comes from and how you get it from going "moo" to the table... and I'm lusting after the Fat Duck Cookbook.

Which probably wasn't helpful.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

It is a bit useful. I should go to the Fat Duck (have you been?)

[naath.livejournal.com]

I have yet to find the moneys to go to the Fat Duck - it's a lot for dinner and also you end up having to stay because it's miles from anywhere and it's not the cheapest place to stay. I do want to go though. When I find the moneys.