Pros: So delicious! Cons: Some recipes could use a little tweaking Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Giada De Laurentiis’s Happy Cooking: Make Every Meal Count … Without Stressing Out attempts to provide us with delicious foods that we don’t have…
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Review: “Food52 Vegan,” Gena Hamshaw
Pros: Delicious food; lovely photos Cons: … Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not vegan, but I believe that good vegan and vegetarian cookbooks can provide wonderful vegetable-based recipes. It’s a great way to find excellent side dishes, or reduce…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: cookbook, Cooking, Food52, Gena Hamshaw, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
Review: “My New Roots,” Sarah Britton
Pros: Lots of pretty pictures and some creative healthy dishes Cons: Variable quality Rating: 4 out of 5 My New Roots: Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season, by Sarah Britton, is a good cookbook–it just isn’t a great one. It’s…
Review: “Fika” (cookbook), Brones & Kindvall
Pros: Sooo delicious! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Fika: The Art of The Swedish Coffee Break is an absolutely delicious cookbook! It explains that…
Review: “A Good Food Day,” Marco Canora
Pros: Delicious, healthy food Cons: Not everything wowed me Rating: 4.5 out of 5 I received this book for free from Blogging for Books for this review. Marco Canora has joined the movement that pushes healthful, ‘clean’, unprocessed…
On Reviewing Cookbooks
Any time I review a cookbook I make recipes from it first. You can have a gorgeous cookbook written by a famous chef that’s full of errors, and you can have some ugly little book written by someone you’ve never…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: bread, cookbook, Cooking, Peter Reinhart, recipes, whole grain, whole milled flour
Review: “Taste of Home Christmas”
Pros: Yum! Cons: Some recipes could use more seasoning Rating: 4 out of 5 NOTE: Review book provided by Reader’s Digest Taste of Home Christmas: 465 Recipes For a Merry Holiday is a delightful collection of holiday recipes. Contents…
Review: “Super Foods Cookbook,” Reader’s Digest
Pros: One of the recipes we tried came out well… Cons: …the other ones didn’t. Rating: 2 out of 5 NOTE: Review book provided by Reader’s Digest Super Foods Cookbook: 184 Super Easy Recipes to Boost Your Health (N/A)…
Review: “Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day,” Hertzberg and Francois
Pros: Delicious and easy Cons: Hard crust, shaggy look, doesn’t brown well Rating: 4 out of 5 NOTE: Review book provided by authors I’m a huge fan of Hertzberg and Francois’s original Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day…
Posted in Cooking, Reviews Tagged with: baking, bread, cookbook, gluten-free, Jeff Hertzberg, recipes, Zoe Francois
Review: “International Night,” Mark and Talia Kurlansky
Pros: Delightful variety; great way to explore other cuisines Cons: Some recipes we tried were just ‘okay’ Rating: 4 out of 5 I received this book for free from Bloomsbury Publishing for this review. International Night: A Father…
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