Kitchen Letters

[Vanessa]

Thanks. Most appreciated.

 

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[Guest Adam]

Just ordered:

 

Stuart Cookery: Recipes and History (Cooking Through the Ages) - Peter Brears

 

Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking - Fergus Henderson

 

Little Foods of the Mediterranean: 500 Fabulous Recipes for Antipasti, Tapas, Hors D'Oeuvre, Meze, and More - C.A. Wright

 

Tudor History: Recipes and History (Cooking Through the Ages) - Peter Brears

 

 

Traditional Foods of Britain: An Inventory

[Vanessa]

You are going to have fun, Adam. The Laura Mason book, the inventory, is particularly invaluable for reference.

 

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[Ms J]

Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking - Fergus Henderson

This is great fun to have. When my family was over a few months ago, they couldn't put it (or HFW's Meat book) down.

 

I've recently ordered:

 

The Best of Mauritian Cooking, Barry Andrews

La Réunion des mille et une saveurs, Serge Gelabert

 

So hopefully the high-grade Bourbon vanilla I brought back from Reunion will be put to some savoury uses.

[ampletuna]

Chris has just got a large consignment of cookery books in his shop. There are 100 of them so I don't know if anyone wants me to email or PM them the list (probably take up too much space here?). He would get a discount on the prices listed.

 

As an aside, I get 50% discount on all Harper Collins books and am more than happy to order any for anyone...

[Vanessa]

Chris has just got a large consignment of cookery books in his shop. There are 100 of them so I don't know if anyone wants me to email or PM them the list (probably take up too much space here?). He would get a discount on the prices listed.

 

As an aside, I get 50% discount on all Harper Collins books and am more than happy to order any for anyone...

Yes yes yes yes

 

Please.

 

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[Ms J]

Chris has just got a large consignment of cookery books in his shop. There are 100 of them so I don't know if anyone wants me to email or PM them the list (probably take up too much space here?). He would get a discount on the prices listed.

AmpleT, I might almost be willing to throw our Middlewhite bout for that.

[ampletuna]

Chris has just got a large consignment of cookery books in his shop. There are 100 of them so I don't know if anyone wants me to email or PM them the list (probably take up too much space here?). He would get a discount on the prices listed.

AmpleT, I might almost be willing to throw our Middlewhite bout for that.

but think of all our fans we will be disappointing!

[Guest Adam]

Ladies scrapping or cook books......Cook books I think, unless free beer and "I was at the 2005 Middle-White jelly wrestle T-shirt" is tossed in.

[helena]

Florence Lin's Complete book of Chinese noodles, dumplings and breads: finally i tracked down the reasonably priced copy and in impeccable condition.

[helena]

Some other stuff i got in recently.

Kimchi Cookbook;

both books of Tsuji - "Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art" and "Practical Japanese Cooking: Easy and Elegant".

 

Alex brought from HK:

"Authentic Recipes from China" and

"Authentic Recipes from Korea" - new world food series from Periplus.

I already have the Thai book and am waiting for the Japanese - to be published in couple of months.

[guajolote]

Tsuji - "Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art"

this is one of my favorites. enjoy it

[helena]

Cook's Guide To Asian Vegetables by Wendy Hutton – although I expected to see more exotic stuff, it’s still a lovely book;

Picked this up recently alongside one called Cooking with Asian Leaves (Devagi Sanmugam & Christopher Tan). Both reasonably useful as shopping guides, although neither quite as comprehensive as one would like.

Of course i couldn't resist the book with asian leaves in the title so thanks to Kiku i got a useful addition to my library.

The book is organized in alphabetical order covering the appearance, flavor, uses and health benefits of each herbs/leaves plus couple of recipes. I already found some leaves not covered elsewhere.

[Vanessa]

A couple more books from e-bay for little more than the cost of postage:

 

Cooking with Vegetables by Alex D. Hawkes. A 60's precursor to Elizabeth Schneider's book on veg. If anything more comprehensive in its coverage (ie remarkable) but limited by the 60's-ness of the recipes, with the odd exception. An idiosyncratic and interesting book.

 

Keo's Thai Cuisine by Keo Sananikone. A book that I remember well when it came out in the mid-80's. It seemed a very smart production with sophisticated recipes and I only didn't buy it due to the ridiculous cover price. A testament to how one's outlook changes, this book now appears relatively pedestrian in its coverage of Thai cooking. Annoyingly, the author turns out to be Lao in origin.

 

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[helena]

I finally got Delicioso! and that makes a me a proud owner of all Penelope Casas books although honestly i'm hardly using them except for Paella and even that was a while ago. But Delicioso! looks like a nice book with a lot if interesting recipes...

 

Oh, and this is what i wanted to post forever - my two most favorite bookshelves