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Janie, I'm a little confused. Or maybe it's just too early. But what does & Reg mean in entries like Betty Crocker & Reg?
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What you probably ordered, Janie, is the 25th anniversary issue (silver anniversary, get it), which came out last year.
Is it gourmetish? You betcha. Is it beyond you? Not at all. The original introduced gourmet cooking and fine dining at home to a generation of Americans who were just coming of age, in a culinary sense.
Just imagine if all of America was Greenup Cty. That's the world the book entered.
It can, along with Julia Child, be credited with awakening the foodies we are today.
What you want to do, when it comes, is wait until everyone else is asleep. Then curl up with it on the couch, with a glass of wine (or whatever) and read it like a novel.
Is it gourmetish? You betcha. Is it beyond you? Not at all. The original introduced gourmet cooking and fine dining at home to a generation of Americans who were just coming of age, in a culinary sense.
Just imagine if all of America was Greenup Cty. That's the world the book entered.
It can, along with Julia Child, be credited with awakening the foodies we are today.
What you want to do, when it comes, is wait until everyone else is asleep. Then curl up with it on the couch, with a glass of wine (or whatever) and read it like a novel.
love my Silver Palate books. Have the first one, The New Basics, Great Good Food (by just Julee Rosso. And probably my favorite Goodtimes Cookbook. Got original as a gift, the next two secondhand from Amazon. and Goodtimes from Amazon, I think new?
They are definately cookbooks you READ.
enjoy,
Nan
They are definately cookbooks you READ.
enjoy,
Nan
jglass
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Im really afraid the recipes may be way outta my league Nan. I do more traditional southern comfort type cooking. Im hoping the book will help me expand my abilities in the kitchen.
I love curling up with a new cookbook and reading it from cover to cover. The last one I really enjoyed like that was Ina Garden's cookbook.
I love curling up with a new cookbook and reading it from cover to cover. The last one I really enjoyed like that was Ina Garden's cookbook.
chubbyalaskagriz
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janie,
I'd really recommend "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea" written by a Mississippi chef who traveled to France- but who's now back in the Deep South cooking her beloved traditional cuisine. Her writings are wonderful and down-home. Recipes appear yummy too! Nice book to cozy-up with and read a few pages of at bed-time.
Amazon.com: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook: Martha Hall Foose: Books
I'd really recommend "Screen Doors & Sweet Tea" written by a Mississippi chef who traveled to France- but who's now back in the Deep South cooking her beloved traditional cuisine. Her writings are wonderful and down-home. Recipes appear yummy too! Nice book to cozy-up with and read a few pages of at bed-time.
Amazon.com: Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook: Martha Hall Foose: Books
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KYHeirloomer
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There's a whole list of titles like that; "cookbooks" that are really explorations into the cultural phenomanon called southern cooking. They're partly the author's rememberances, partly anecdotes from other people, partly interviews, and wholly great reading.
My favorite of these is Joseph Dabney's Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine because it's more regional in nature, being an exploration of "the Folklore and Art of Sourthern Appalachian Cooking." In other words, it's closer to home for me and Janie than a book about, say, Georgia cookery.
A really interesting new book, which I'm in the process of reviewing, is Bon Appetit, Y'all. Virginia Willis was raised in the culinary tradition of the deep south. She was then classically trained in France. Her recipes are a "fusion" (lord, I hate that word) of those two influences. And her stories are wonderful reads.
My favorite of these is Joseph Dabney's Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine because it's more regional in nature, being an exploration of "the Folklore and Art of Sourthern Appalachian Cooking." In other words, it's closer to home for me and Janie than a book about, say, Georgia cookery.
A really interesting new book, which I'm in the process of reviewing, is Bon Appetit, Y'all. Virginia Willis was raised in the culinary tradition of the deep south. She was then classically trained in France. Her recipes are a "fusion" (lord, I hate that word) of those two influences. And her stories are wonderful reads.
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A Polite Request
Just a reminder for anyone ordering books (or anything else) from Amazon.
Please go over to ChefTalk first (ChefTalk - Cooking Forums, Cook Book Review, Cooking Articles and Recipes by the chefs) and use the direct link button in the forums over there. Doing so helps my quarterly paycheck.
Thanks.
Just a reminder for anyone ordering books (or anything else) from Amazon.
Please go over to ChefTalk first (ChefTalk - Cooking Forums, Cook Book Review, Cooking Articles and Recipes by the chefs) and use the direct link button in the forums over there. Doing so helps my quarterly paycheck.
Thanks.
chubbyalaskagriz
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Cathy,
I got 'New Greek Cuisine' for a friend for Christmas a few months back. I only had a chance to flip thru it a bit, but it was a handsome, substantial book, with lots of great photos (which is a big deal to me).
I'm still reading and spending time with my last bunch of 'new membership freebies' from a few weeks back, 'Screen Doors & Sweet Tea', "The Deen Brother's Ya'll Come Eat", 'Cresent City Cooking', "Lidia's Italian American Kitchen', and 'The Commemorative Edition: Edna Lewis' Taste of Country Cooking'.
Next, books I want to pick-up are the remaining ones I don't yet have of the 'Beautiful Cookbook' series. I only have: 'The Beautiful Pacific North-West Cookbook', "The Beautiful Australia Cookbook', and 'The Beautiful Texas Cookbook' and I'd like to pick them all up used, of course from Amazon and Barnes & Noble...
I got 'New Greek Cuisine' for a friend for Christmas a few months back. I only had a chance to flip thru it a bit, but it was a handsome, substantial book, with lots of great photos (which is a big deal to me).
I'm still reading and spending time with my last bunch of 'new membership freebies' from a few weeks back, 'Screen Doors & Sweet Tea', "The Deen Brother's Ya'll Come Eat", 'Cresent City Cooking', "Lidia's Italian American Kitchen', and 'The Commemorative Edition: Edna Lewis' Taste of Country Cooking'.
Next, books I want to pick-up are the remaining ones I don't yet have of the 'Beautiful Cookbook' series. I only have: 'The Beautiful Pacific North-West Cookbook', "The Beautiful Australia Cookbook', and 'The Beautiful Texas Cookbook' and I'd like to pick them all up used, of course from Amazon and Barnes & Noble...
Cook Chatty Cathy
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They all sound like good titles! Today I ordered thru the bookclub my free choice and I chose:Spain and -----? my head is throbbing so bad I can't remember the whole name I will let you know later! Sorry
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KYHeirloomer
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Would that be Spain and the World Table, Cathy?
If so, it's a great book that you'll really enjoy. It's a CIA imprinteur, and resulted from their last Worlds of Flavor International Conference & Festival, which is held annually in November.
You remember I talked about the Grilled Lamb Chops with Salsade Pasitas Rojas? That came out of this book.
One thing you might want to try. On page 51 is a recipe for cold Mussel Escabeche. I couldn't find decent mussels when I made it, so subbed squid, which worked incredibly well.
Cut the bodies into wide strips and cook in boiling water for about 90 seconds (the rule with squid is to cook them for less than 2 minutes or more than 20). Refresh in ice water. Then proceed with the recipe.
Delish!
If so, it's a great book that you'll really enjoy. It's a CIA imprinteur, and resulted from their last Worlds of Flavor International Conference & Festival, which is held annually in November.
You remember I talked about the Grilled Lamb Chops with Salsade Pasitas Rojas? That came out of this book.
One thing you might want to try. On page 51 is a recipe for cold Mussel Escabeche. I couldn't find decent mussels when I made it, so subbed squid, which worked incredibly well.
Cut the bodies into wide strips and cook in boiling water for about 90 seconds (the rule with squid is to cook them for less than 2 minutes or more than 20). Refresh in ice water. Then proceed with the recipe.
Delish!
Cook Chatty Cathy
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Yes Brook it is "Spain and the World Table", and after reading your post I am so excited about receiving it!!!
I am amazed by all the really remarkable cookbooks available to us, and the range of Internationational ones is impressive! I feel like I must have been asleep in a time warp and just woke up to discover all the new "stuff"! It is so neat, gosh, can I say it just one more time?....please bear with me everyone, but I am so happy I found Spice Place!!!
Thanks again for the "heads-up" Brook.
I am amazed by all the really remarkable cookbooks available to us, and the range of Internationational ones is impressive! I feel like I must have been asleep in a time warp and just woke up to discover all the new "stuff"! It is so neat, gosh, can I say it just one more time?....please bear with me everyone, but I am so happy I found Spice Place!!!
Thanks again for the "heads-up" Brook.
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So many cookbooks, so little time! 
Cook Chatty Cathy
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So many cookbooks, so little time!
I hear you!!!
In a way though it is amazing how much we really do accomplish in a days time, I mean stop and really think about it
chubbyalaskagriz
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KYH, I just went and reached 'Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine' off a high shelf and brought it to my bedroom and placed in a bureau-drawer intending to read it sometime before too long. Might be a while as I have 5-6 others ahead of it, and though I read each morning at bedtime, I don't tend to read more than a few pages before nodding-off... Anyway, I've had it several years but have yet to give it an honest read- per your recommendation, I expect to enjoy it- THANKS! (Just opened to page #240 where I spy recipes for 'Possum and Sweet Potatoes', 'Rattlesnake', and 'Mountain Whistle-Pig (Groundhog)! Yummy! Hee-Hee!)