Cookbooks, cooking reads, and books about food
Small Plates and Sweet Treats While all the recipes are gluten-free, they are flavorful and easy to tackle since they are made to serve a handful only (most serve between 4 to 6 servings). Read the full review of this book and look over a …
Sauces was a Cookbook of the Week feature on Sand and Succotash. Read the full review there. What makes this a mini saucemaking class at home is the wide range of sauces included, with tips, terminoligy, equipment, ingredients, and everything else needed for any sauce. …
Rosia Lee Ivey’s Recipe for Life Rosia Lee Ivey’s Recipes for Life is a recipe collection that was written by John Arthur Ivey, Rosia’s son. Read the review and try the recipe for Sweet Potato Pie. Renee Shelton
Kim Laidlaw’s Home Baked Comfort has fast become a favorite read. Not only does she provide tips, and lists her favorite kitchen tools, all the recipes are enhanced with gorgeous photography by Eric Wolfinger. Read the full review on Pastry Sampler’s blog. Renee Shelton
Junior’s restaurants in New York are known for great food and delicious cheesecakes. Junior’s Dessert Cookbook contains 75 recipes including their famous cheesecakes, layered cakes, and pies. Read the full review on Pastry Sampler’s blog. Renee Shelton
Now That We Are Married, What Should We Do? (Jackie Lucas-Buck, ISBN 0805966137) is a cookbook with both home-style recipes and scripture. Read the full review on Succotash Reviews. Renee Shelton
Nancy Silverton’s Breads from the La Brea Bakery The recipes in this cookbook are not quick and easy versions of your favorite breads – they are the real thing, and most are two-day recipe affairs. Read Breads review on Sand and Succotash. Renee …
The Liddabit Sweets Candy Cookbook All in all, one of the better candy cookbooks out there. But if I had to rate it on a scale of ‘funness’ though, this was off the charts. The photos were as much fun to flip through as the …
Think pairing a great Italian wine and a seafood dish is difficult? With the help of a pocket Italian wine book, you can look up a region in Italy and pair it with a fish or seafood quickly. Wines of Italy If you are looking …
Whatever Happened to Sunday Dinner? Lisa Caponigri has an answer. I’m a sucker for old recipes, and when a new cookbook’s inside cover is littered with well-used hand written ones, I feel I’ve struck gold. Whatever Happened to Sunday Dinner was written with the author’s …