Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
The No Recipe Cookbook: Quick and Easy Healthy Meals to Save Money, Time, and Calories by Dr. Samantha Pillay is made on the premise that learning to cook without a recipe is possible, and doing so will save your time and money, and is healthier …
Cookbook blurb: Focusing on the figures behind the recipes, Women in the Kitchen traces the development of American home cooking from the first, early colonial days to transformative cookbooks by Fannie Farmer, Irma Rombauer, Julia Child, Edna Lewis, and Marcella Hazan. Willan offers a short …
Niqiliurniq by Micah Arreak celebrates the Igloolik cuisine in northern Canada by showcasing what is eaten there. Igloolik is a remote area and Arreak talks a great deal about the benefits of residents locating and preparing local foods around them. Local foods may be healthy, …
The Culinary Art Portfolio of Josephine E. Jones showcases the work of Josephine E. Jones, and is not a traditional cookbook at all. There are no standardized recipes in the pages, just a collection of pictures that can be framed if you want to remove …
I love a good cookbook and I love a good story, and the two come together in Cook, Eat, Repeat by Nigella Lawson. Like her previous books, the cookbook contains really good (and well tested) recipes. I think she has a gift for writing and …
I really liked this book. It contains a wealth of Q and A for all types of food preservation methods. It’s separated into three sections that make sense to people who are new to preserving: Getting Started; Preserving Processes; and Putting Your Skills to Work. …
The Ultimate SPAM Cookbook contains over 100 quick and delicious recipes ranging from traditional to gourmet. The Ultimate SPAM Cookbook This cookbook, which can double as a great gift for all Spam lovers, begins with the history of SPAM – including that the name’s origin …
The California Seafood Cookbook: A Cook’s Guide to the Fish and Shellfish of California, the Pacific Coast, and Beyond by Isaac Cronin, Jay Harlow and Paul Johnson is a cookbook filled with recipes that “tend toward simple approaches to a limited number of ingredients rather …
Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook is written by Ricky Moore and contains the history of and great recipes from his Saltbox Seafood Joint restaurants in North Carolina. Ama Saltbox Seafood Joint Ricky Moore grew up in eastern North Carolina, joining the military out of high school …
Seafood published by Sally Murphy Morris is a small book filled with basic fish cookery. This book was published in 1979, and has recipes, prep and cleaning instructions for different types of fish and seafood, and a chart for fish substitutions by family and species. …