What cookbooks did you get as a gift???

I got Kaffeehaus by Rick Rogers. Its a lovely book but have not made anything yet.

I got NOMA and a years subscription to Art Culinaire. I'm happy

I gave TODG [which means I also got ] Rozanne Gold's Radically Simple. She's cooked a couple things from it, both were easy, simple, and tasty. Nice book.

Geo

Not technically a cookbook, but I got the letters of Julia Child and Avis deVoto book.
Haven't read it yet...but I think I'll like it.

Alinea

Cookin' with Coolio

Darren72 wrote:Cookin' with Coolio

Did Coolio just lift all the recipes off of this thread?

For some reason, I got a windfall of books this Christmas:

The French Laundry Cookbook (Thomas Keller)
Ad Hoc at Home (Thomas Keller)
How to Cook Everything (Mark Bittman)
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (Mark Bittman)

I'd perused most of them multiple times, but never actually owned any, so it was a great gift

I received Ad Hoc at Home (Keller) and Baking (Peterson)

The Lovely Dining Companion received What To Cook and How To Cook It (Hornby) and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (Madison).

The LDC and moi, jointly, received Bon Appetit's Desserts.

Now all we need is time!

I got "Cooking for Geeks" by Jeff Potter and we gave MincyBits' mom "The Butter Cookbook" which, I must be honest, probably isn't the best book out there, but we had to buy it for the name alone.

I also recently received "Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails" by Ted Haigh which is slowly growing my cocktailian recipe book collection.

I wish I would have bought someone "Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes" by Mark Bitterman

irisarbor wrote:Not technically a cookbook, but I got the letters of Julia Child and Avis deVoto book.
Haven't read it yet...but I think I'll like it.

Joan Reardon who authored this book will be speaking at Culinary Historians on January 15th. More information can be found here.

Regards,

Everyone I know is broke, so we just got together and cooked a great meal, rather than giving presents.

Then I bought myself Grace Young's Stir Frying to the Sky's Edge.

I also got Cooking for Geeks (let's exchange any good recipe finds, I'm not sure how fast I'll be able to work through it), and also My Calabria, which is a beautiful book.

A second copy of La Cucina (oops, forgot to take it off the Amazon list when I got the first copy!)

And a copy of this, from someone who meant well.

Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan. Great read! Made a couple pickles so far, looking to try a ssam shortly.

Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen. Made the water dumplings with pork and napa (first recipe in the book) last night. Lots of interesting things in there outside of the gyoza/mandu/pot sticker/won ton spectrum such as samosas, buns, lots more. Looks to be a good reference.

The French Laundry/Ad Hoc duo package
Comfort Me with Apples

I didn't find this season all that exciting as far as the big holiday cookbook push goes; I already bought Thai Street Food and Tartine for myself

Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy, by Diana Kennedy

I've flipped through it and many of the photos & recipes look amazing. I understand some of the photos were taken by Diana herself.

The only drawback is that it appears I'll have to order chiles from an online source for many of the recipes.

Cooking Up a Storm, which is a cookbook inspired by people writing into the Times Picayune asking for reprints of recipes they lost to Katrina.

cabrito wrote:Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy, by Diana Kennedy

I've flipped through it and many of the photos & recipes look amazing. I understand some of the photos were taken by Diana herself.

The only drawback is that it appears I'll have to order chiles from an online source for many of the recipes.

I just discovered this the other day and I have to say the book looks quite impressive. I hope you'll have a chance to try out a number of things...and report back on how they went!

JoelF--

Asian Dumplings looked so good that I ordered a copy. Pls keep up posted if/when you try various of her recipes.

Geo

The Cook's Companion - The complete book of ingredients and recipes for the Australian kitchen by Stephanie Alexander

Quite comprehensive at 1126 pages! Now I just need to brush up on my metric conversions...

abe_froeman wrote:
And a copy of this, from someone who meant well.

That's hilarious! Might be something interesting in there.

teatpuller wrote:

abe_froeman wrote:
And a copy of this, from someone who meant well.

That's hilarious! Might be something interesting in there.

Eh, too late- I gave it as a white elephant gift tonight. I have sooooo many cookbooks as it is, I need to prioritize. The recipient saw the humor, as well as the potential in it, though.

JoelF wrote:Asian Dumplings by Andrea Nguyen. Made the water dumplings with pork and napa (first recipe in the book) last night. Lots of interesting things in there outside of the gyoza/mandu/pot sticker/won ton spectrum such as samosas, buns, lots more. Looks to be a good reference.

Geo wrote:Asian Dumplings looked so good that I ordered a copy. Pls keep up posted if/when you try various of her recipes.

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences with this one. It's one of my recent faves. On x-mas day (as an extension of Jewish X-mas eve in C-town), I invited my family over to make three types of dumplings from this book (guotie-lamb and scallion, saku sai mu-tapioca dumplings with peanut and pork, and baked curry chicken buns). Her website has several nice videos on how to shape the dumplings. Haven't hit a clunker yet.