Cook Book Alert: Haute Potato

I have heard more times than I can count from various customers that if they only had one food they could keep and would have to discard all others the choice is most commonly potatoes.   Apparently cook book author and blogger Jaqueline Pham understands this all to well in her new cookbook Haute Potato.  …

Cook Book Alert: Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques by Jacques Pépin.

Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques by Jacques Pépin. Fans of Pépin’s classic books La Méthode and La Technique rejoice: the master French chef has reshot all the photographs from those books for this new single volume. Everything from boning a chicken to making fancy decorative fruit garnishes to, turning an old refrigerator into a smoker, Pépin shows you how to…

Cook Book Alert: How To Cook Everything!

The Huffington Post recently posted a list of New & Noteworthy Cookbooks for Spring 2012 and I must agree with this pick.  Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything” has been a standard cookbook for more than a decade, but this new photo-intensive cousin is designed to help those “new2cooking”  who think they cannot turn on…

Cookbook Alert: Just Married & Cooking

Just Married and Cooking hits shelves in May 2011!! This glam-on-a-budget plan for eating and entertaining is to be filled with over 200 recipes which focuses on fresh, seasonal foods.  It’s two sections Life as We Know It showcases everyday eats that get you through the week in style and New Traditions that centers around special…

The Pioneer Woman Cooks! Brilliant!

  Cook Book Alert: Rae Drummond author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Recipes from an accidental country girl  is anything but an accident.  The photography, step by step pictures,  ranch family stories, and realistic approach to cooking makes this cookbook a wonderful find and great addition to any cookbook collection.  From her Marlboro man steak sandwich, to the perfect…

The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2011

 The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2011 offers an outstanding compilation of unique dishes and great recipes – all of which have been tested and refined for virtually foolproof production in the home kitchen. Black and white photos accompany step-by-step preparation instructions perfect for general cooks. The voice of the test cook who refined each…