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Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget

The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Ever heard of cold-oven pound cake, Hummingbird Cake, Mile-High Bologna Pie, or Mashed-Potato Fudge?

You'll find these recipes and more like them in America's Best Lost Recipes, a book that grew out of a nationwide contest for the best heirloom recipes, with recipes selected and put through their paces by the editors of Cook's Country magazine.

Evocative of both family ties and our national heritage, recipes like these are powerful touchstones for the past. Packed with full-color photos and enhanced features that make it a perfect gift (blank pages on which to detail your own family's lost recipes, a pocket to hold the recipes, and a bookplate), this collection features food you will want to make for your family and friends. Test kitchen notes tell the story of our recipe testing and detail what you need to know to be successful in the kitchen.

Contest entrants describe the recipes and history in their own words in brief introductions, lending this collection a narrative and personal quality few cookbooks possess. A slice of Americana, America's Best Lost Recipes aims to preserve the best our culinary heritage has to offer.

Southern Living Cookbook: America's Best Home Cooking

Southern Living

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

For 40 years, Southern Living has inspired the hearts of home cooks in the South and beyond with great recipes, gracious entertaining ideas, and a wealth of kitchen wisdom. Now, this new Southern Living Cookbook delivers everything you need for everyday cooking:

1,250 foolproof favorite Southern Living recipes kitchen-tested by the pros, each with prep and cook times and nutrient information; 1,700 kitchen tips, secrets, and shortcuts to help you with weeknight meals, casual entertaining, and all your cooking questions; 500+ color photos of finished recipes and simple step-by-step instructions; 50 Southern-style menus to help you plan meals from one season to the next; 38 handy charts for cooking meats, poultry, seafood, and more; 28 food dictionaries identifying hundreds of ingredients in the marketplace; color-coded recipe index highlighting make ahead, quick, and freezeable recipes; and healthy value including analysis for 13 nutrients for every recipe, a Healthy Living section, and a Healthy Favorites recipe chapter.

PLUS a bonus Secrets from the Southern Living Test Kitchens INTERACTIVE CD, your digital cooking guide from the experts at southernliving.com and myrecipes.com, is included. You'll find 40 how-to videos of our best Test Kitchens tips for making your favorite dishes, 10 From Our Kitchen videos featuring cooking demos straight from our Test Kitchens, and a month of "What's for Supper" menus with game plans and shopping lists to help get dinner on the table tonight.

The Manga Cookbook

The Manga University Culinary Institute, Chihiro Hattori

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Simple and easy but not always correct 2 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

For the really simple things, obviously you can't go wrong and though I have not used this book extensively, it seems some of the recipes are off.
For example the 3 colored dango gave me measurements that were pretty different than other recipes I found online. Also on how to cook the rice I was told that recipe was off too, therefore the results I got were far less than desired.
I've lost faith in this book and though it was fun at first, I most likely will not use it again.
There are some great sites online of bloggers with great recipes like justhungry.com and others.
I know there are much better books out there on cooking simple Japanese foods..
For fun and very simple things, this is a cute book, but nothing more, for me anyway.

Editorial Review:

Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western kitchen. Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori (skewered chicken), oshinko (pickled vegetables), udon (Japanese noodles), okonomiyaki (Japanese-style pizza) and many others! Includes sections on how to assemble bento boxed lunches and properly use chopsticks. Features original manga illustrations by Chihiro Hattori. Soon, you too can enjoy a meal fit for a manga character!

Crepes: Sweet & Savory Recipes for the Home Cook

Lou Seibert Pappas

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Excellent crepe overview 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I opened the book, and made excellent crepes right away, within minutes. Can't do much better than that!

Just what I was looking for... 5 out of 5 stars.
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I took a crepe making class just to learn the technique and take the fear out of crepe making. While I took away from that class a few recipes, none were interesting enough to make at home. This book is wonderful--what closed the deal on purchasing it was when I saw that it included a recipe for blue corn crepes. While vacationing in Santa Fe, I fell in love with their blue corn pancake/muffin mix. I can't wait to make the blue corn crepes with the blue corn mix I brought back to Houston. The recipes in this book are exactly what I was looking for--diverse and simple to follow.

Love this book! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I originally found this book at a library, but after checking it out over and over again -as I love it, I checked on Amazon and it was here!! Love it! It has such a wonderful variety of crepes, using different flours etc., sweet and savory, and so many tips and ideas. I share this book title with everyone at my cooking shows. Definitely worth the price and then some!

Editorial Review:

Ever-popular in France, delicate and delicious cr pes are once again basking in the international culinary spotlight. This gorgeously illustrated cookbook features more than 40 recipes for sweet and savory cr pes, all sure to delight friends and family alike.

The Fallingwater Cookbook: Elsie Henderson's Recipes and Memories

Suzanne Martinson, Jane Citron, Robert Sendall

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Hailed as the most architecturally significant private residence in the United States, Fallingwater was a welcome retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, his wife Liliane, their son, Edgar jr., and their many guests. The Fallingwater Cookbook captures the experience of fine and casual dining at this famed home. Suzanne Martinson, former food editor and writer for the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, relates recipes from Elsie Henderson, the longtime and last cook for the Kaufmann family at Fallingwater, along with Henderson's memories and anecdotes of life in the renowned house on the waterfall. Henderson's encounters with the Kaufmanns, John Heinz, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others, are recounted with humor, affection, and surprising detail.
The book is rounded out with additional recipes from chef Robert Sendall, who began producing special events at Fallingwater in the early 1990s, Jane Citron, with whom Sendall taught cooking classes, and Mary Ann Moreau, former chef of the Fallingwater Café. Artfully composed photographs of food, architecture, landscape, family, and guests complete the collection, which, like Fallingwater, will be treasured for years to come.

The Art of Mexican Cooking

Diana Kennedy

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

This indispensable cookbook, an instant classic when first published in 1989, is now back in print with a brand-new introduction from the most celebrated authority on Mexican cooking, Diana Kennedy. The culmination of more than fifty years of living, traveling, and cooking in Mexico, The Art of Mexican Cooking is the ultimate guide to creating authentic Mexican food in your own kitchen, with more than 200 beloved recipes as well as evocative illustrations.

The dishes included, favorites from all the regions of Mexico, range from sophisticated to pure and simple, but they all share an intrinsic depth of taste. Aficionados will go to great lengths to duplicate the authentic dishes (and Kennedy tells them exactly how), but here too is a wealth of less complicated recipes for the casual cook in search of the unmistakable flavors of a bold cuisine.

Kennedy shares the secrets of true Mexican flavor: balancing the piquant taste of chiles with a little salt and acid, for instance, or charring them to round out their flavor; broiling tomatoes to bring out their character, or adding cumin for a light accent. By using Kennedy’s kitchen wisdom and advice, and carefully selecting produce that is now readily available in most American markets, cooks with an appetite for Mexican cuisine–and Kennedy devotees old and new–can at last serve and enjoy real Mexican food.

“This is the ultimate in Mexican cooking from the world’s leading authority.”
—Paula Wolfert, author of The Cooking of South-West France

Pressure Cookers for Dummies

Tom Lacalamita

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

not a replacement of an owners manual 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This is a great book that backs up your owners manual of your pressure cooker. My main concern when I bought my pressure cooker was safety. I figured they were safer than the old models that blew up but I wanted to know why. Also I know that if I understand the basics of this apparatus I could potentially avoid problems since I know it is impossible to idiot proof anything 100%. After reading the book, I able to use the pressure cooker with confidence. I think its main strengths are the basic information it provides on the safety of pressure cookers, how different types of pressure cookers work and cooking times for common ingredients used in pressure cookers, e.g. soups and beans. One reviewer criticized this book for not providing step by step instructions. This is very difficult cause there are different types of pressure cookers. My owners manual is very specific compared to the this book. I would agree with other reviewers that I would not buy this book just for the recipes. I tried the beef stew and chicken cacciatore and I liked both of them. However, I improvised a mexican pozole soup and chile colorado and liked them even more.

Editorial Review:

Pressure Cookers For Dummies gives you the lowdown on the different types of pressure cookers that exist. It also has special features of pressure cookers -- including new safety valves -- to make sure you get the modern pressure cooker best equipped to suit your needs. It includes 80 delicious recipes for quick dishes such as, soups, chilis, and stews; roasts and poultry; rice dishes; beans; vegetables; and desserts, jams, and compotes. Pressure Cookers For Dummies offers tips on adapting your favorite recipes plus several comparison recipes -- made the traditional way. Every recipe Includes preparation times, cooking times, and nutrition information.

Le Cordon Bleu's Complete Cooking Techniques: the indispensable reference demonstrates over 700 illustrated techniques with 2,000 photos and 200 recipes

Le Cordon Bleu

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With this exceptional opus, over 100 years of unparalleled experience and expertise are put at the fingertips of every home cook using the same hands-on approach promoted in practical classes at Le Cordon Bleu's institutes. This indispensable and unique reference work teaches essential preparation and cooking skills and professional tricks-of-the-trade, with over 700 cooking techniques shown in more than 2,000 color images.

Whatever the interest -- providing family-pleasing everyday fare or mastering a top chef's recipe, or even attempting to re-create a dish from a restaurant menu -- Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques will enable people to cook what they want with success. Its hundreds of illustrated techniques are invaluable kitchen aids, as are the many integral recipes.

Cooks interested in ethnic cuisines, readers of chef inspired, ingredient-led, or occasion-oriented cookbooks, as well as devotees of simple home cooking will turn to this book again and again and wonder how they ever cooked without it. Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cooking Techniques is destined to become a classic kitchen reference.

Come to the Table: Food, Fellowship, and a Celebration of God's Bounty

Benita Long, Steve Wingfield

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A Superb and Spiritually Enriching Choice for Gift Giving 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.

My 30 years in journalism include a number of years of food writing and restaurant reviewing for the Detroit Free Press and Knight-Ridder newspapers. Anyone involved in the front lines of food writing knows that, whatever else you present: It's about the recipes, the recipes, the recipes.

So, first and foremost, this is a yummy collection of heart-warming recipes and those terms "yummy" and "heart-warming" characterize nicely the array of foods you'll discover in this gorgeous book: Personally I'm drawn to the very simple version here of Tomato Gruyere Pie, the down-home Creamed Chicken on Cornbread, the easy yet elegant Grilled Asparagus with Blue Cheese, and that Glazed Salmon with Orange Salsa -- mmmm mmmm.

How about you? Hungry yet?

What's unusual about the design of this book is that these generally simplified recipes for foods that are likely to become family favorites are packaged in a large-format hardback book with inspiring photographs and reminders of sacred texts from the Bible -- as well as uplifting words from other sages and literary lights.

In other words, this book earns an "A" for the recipes themselves. But it's really intended as an inspirational invitation to cooking and to gathering a household around you to enjoy these foods, not only for their great taste but also because the very act of cooking and eating together becomes a spiritual oasis.

The biblical texts come from the Hebrew scriptures as well as the New Testament. This is a Thomas Nelson book, so there really isn't an interfaith diversity of sacred texts here. This is primarily a book aimed at Christian readers. Nevertheless, the words of sacred wisdom do come from various sources and the basic spiritual principle of meals as a spiritual resource is universal.

Many people will enjoy owning the book or giving it as a gift. Even if you don't have a large household yourself, I can envision many of these fairly easy yet delightful recipes to wind up as mainstays at gatherings of friends, potlucks and other shared meals.

Editorial Review:

Come to the Table is a celebration of food and fellowship as a tribute to the blessings of God through stunning photographs, inspiring writing, and delicious recipes.

Fellowship with others is one of the greatest gifts of God. Come to the Table celebrates this special time with friends and family with exquisite Southern recipes organized in chapters on parties and picnics, small group dinners, family gatherings, and dinner on the grounds, among others. Each chapter includes inspiring quotes, uplifting introductions, and a perfect combination of landscape and food photography that magnifies the glory of the Lord. Come to the Table gives you a taste of heaven on earth with all types of recipes, including:

1. Gorganzola and Fig Tartlets
2. Butter Bean, Corn, and Okra Salad
3. Spicy Apple Cake with Caramel Icing
4. Low-Country Shrimp and Sausage Creole
5. Creamed Chicken on Cornbread

The Best International Recipe

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Editorial Review:

Tired of complicated ethnic dishes with hard-to-find ingredients or recipes for classic European dishes that require a year of cooking school to master? We were. Here are more than 300 foolproof recipes that demystify the world's greatest dishes.

For the landmark classic The Best Recipe, America's Test Kitchen developed the best versions of homespun favorites like macaroni and cheese, pot roast, blueberry muffins, and more. In The Best International Recipe, the test kitchen travels father afield to bring you the best and most exciting cooking from around the world. The more than 300 recipes have been tested dozens of times to ensure success in the kitchen.

Throughout The Best International Recipe, you'll find features that make this collection especially home cook friendly: Pantry spotlights offer clear explanations of ingredients and what to look for, and in some cases, what you can substitute without compromising flavor. Specialty equipment (and substitutions) are highlighted as well, so you won't waste money on equipment you don't really need (hint: You don't need a paella pan to make paella). Core techniques highlighted throughout the book explain essential methods that you can apply to all of your cooking, such as getting the most from spices and a method for making buttery tart dough that won't leave you feeling frustrated.

Whether you want to make spicy pork tacos to rival those found on the tables of Mexico or learn how to make chicken as juicy as the French, The Best International Recipe is your essential guide to the best cooking from around the world.