My Bookshelf
So I have all these cookbooks, so I thought you might be interested in finding out what they are and if I’ve ever cooked from them! If I have cooked from the book in question and blogged about it, there will be the name of a recipe and it will be linked to the corresponding blog post (I’ll link where possible) Listed by Author
I also collect multiple food and cooking magazines….
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Ferran Adrià A Day at elBulli
Stephanie Alexander The Cook’s Companion
B
Maggie Beer Maggie’s Harvest
Maggie Beer Maggie’s Kitchen
Shannon Bennett My French Vue: Bistro Cooking at Home
Gay Bilson Plenty: Digressions on Food
Gay Bilson On Digestion
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Krystina Castella Crazy About Cupcakes
David Chang Momofuku
Michelle Cranston Marie Claire Food + Drink
Bunny Crumpacker The Sex Life of Food
Coco: 10 World leading Masters choose 100 Contemporary chefs
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Serge Dansereau The Bathers’ Pavilion Cafe Cookbook
Serge Dansereau The Bathers’ Pavilion Menus and Recipes
Delicious Let’s Entertain
Fiona Dunlop Medina Kitchen
Jill Dupleix Lighten Up
Clotilde Dusoulier Chocolate & Zucchini – Biscuits Très Chocolate
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Kathryn Elliott & Lucinda Dodds An Honest Kitchen – Chicken Schnitzel & Autumn Salad
Matthew Evans Kitchen Basics
Matthew Evans Weekend Cook
Matthew Evans Never order Chicken on a Monday
Matthew Evans The Real Food Companion
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Margaret Fulton‘s Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery
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Good Living Spring
Bill Granger Holiday
Gael Greene Insatiable: Tales from a life of Delicious Excess
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Donna Hay The Instant Cook
Donna Hay Magazine
Donna Hay No Time to Cook – Grilled Tofu with Chilli Dressing
Marcella Hazan Marcella’s Italian Kitchen
Home Economics Institute of Australia (NSW Div.) The Commonsense Cookery Book
Nhut Huynh Little Vietnam – Beef stew with carrots & Paprika
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Jared Ingersoll Danks St Depot - Panzanella Salad
Jared Ingersoll Sharing Plates
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Belinda Jeffery Mix and Bake
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Alex Kaparanos Sound Bites
Tom Kime Street Food
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Nigella Lawson Nigella Express
Nigella Lawson How To Eat – Macaroni Cheese
Valli Little 5 Nights a Week – Harissa Fish with Fattoush
Valli Little 5 of the Best
Giorgio Locatelli Made in Italy Food and Stories – Ragù alla Bolognese
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Greg & Lucy Malouf Moorish – Lamb baked with Orzo, tomatoes and lemon
Anneka Manning Good Food
Harold McGee On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Guy Mirabella Eat Ate
Matt Moran Matt Moran
Lynne Mullins Produce
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Pauline Nguyen Secrets of the Red Lantern
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Jamie Oliver Cook with Jamie
Jamie Oliver Happy Days with the Naked Chef
Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi Ottolenghi: The Cookbook – Roast Eggplant with Saffron Yoghurt
Yotam Ottolenghi Plenty
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Neil Perry Good Food – Beef Rendang
Neil Perry Balance & Harmony
Jessica Porter The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics
Michael Pollan In Defence of Food
Julie Powell Julie & Julia: My year of cooking dangerously
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Ruth Reichl The Gourmet Cookbook
Claudia Roden A New book of Middle Eastern Food
Colette Rossant Apricots on the Nile
Colette Rossant Madeleines in Manhattan
Michael Ruhlman Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday cooking
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Amy Sedaris I like You: Hospitality Under The Influence
Delia Smith How to Cheat at Cooking
Rosemary Stanton Healthy Eating for Australian Families
Jane & Jeremy Strode Two’s Cooking
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David Thompson Thai Street Food
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Tetsuya Wakuda Tetsuya
Alice Waters Chez Panisse Pasta Pizza & Calzone
Neale Whitaker The Accidental Foodie
Marco Pierre White White Heat
The Women’s Weekly Cook
Reem,
Love you stuff on the tapas restaurant. You should also look at Fuchsia Dunlop’s stuff on Sichuan food, very good and mouth watering. Good story too about travel in China. See you round. Lachlan
Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that the staff at Bei Amici think you have a great blog site.
We have a restaurant at Darling Point, we often wonder what you would think of it!
We are always at Kings Cross Markets on a saturday – Felix buys a lot of our vegies from the stall holders – if feels really good to bring big boxes of Caverlo Nero into the restaurant – I swear those leafs are the best !
We are having a Spring in Ticino Dinner on the 20th of September.
On long table and big platters of food come out and we all eat and drink – it is hosted by Manuela Darling Gansser – you will see her cook books around – have a look they are just beautiful.
Also Otto Dal Zotto – from Dal Zotto will be hosting a dinner on the 25th of October
Better get back to MYOB – thanks for the diversion
Leigh
Hey Reem – whats your fave book from the list? I like that Little Vietnam book. IF you are looking for another book to add to the list I like Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries
@Rob my fave book is probably Claudia Roden’s A New Book of Middle Eastern Food, as the way it’s written is so beautiful and so full of love, history and place and all that is evocative about food and home.
Hi Reem
Great list, I will check many of these books out as I would like to learn more and cook more at home (like your recent “time’s are a changin’ ” post)
My favourite book is Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Jewish-Food-Odyssey-Samarkand/dp/0394532589
Same reasons, love, history, context: so much more than recipes its fantastic.
Glad to have seen your tweet, and found your list of cookbooks.
Cheers
Tony
Love the cookbook challenge and your extensive list of cookbooks Reem.
You should also add Stephanie Alexanders Kitchen Garden Companion to the collection – a foodie essential!
Cheers x
Becky @ http://www.dadinnerblog.wordpress.com and
Chaz @ http://butchershook.net/