Food is the great universal topic. Go anywhere and talk with just about anyone and know that after pleasantries are exchanged, the conversation will almost always get around to food..eating it, buying it, preparing it. We love to talk about the parties we've attended, bar-b-ques we've hosted, dinners we've made, the desserts we've savored and the recipes we've mastered. I think we are lucky in that our conversations always come back to food in some capacity or another. It's always best when food is shared, both across the table and with our words. Come..let's share the bounty! Cooks talk!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

In the Kitchen with KRL! Bibliography

I think it's safe to say that we all love lists. The one we posted below is by no means inclusive, but just a taste of what we have to share. I think it's a matter of sheer numbers more than anything else. The cookbook world is burgeoning with great titles to buy these days, lists packed with old favorites but also with tons of new titles that are inspired by our ever widening world of international cooking. Every week seems to unearth yet another type and style of ethnic or regional or local cooking previously uncelebrated, and the cookbook publishers are never far behind with a cookbook or ten for us to buy and place on our shelves, or, at the very least, put on our must see lists.

Food blogs and recipe sites and cookbook sellers are also blossoming like never before. Since most of us who frequent cookbook aisles in the bookstores or the local public library love to eat, and since quite a few of us love to cook as welll, the online sites have grown astronomically to help us to expand our cooking repetories, help us find last minute recipes, and help us uncover new and exciting cooking techniques and tools we never knew existed. Online sites help guide us to new restaurants, turn us on to the latest ingredients, and help point us in the direction of the best and lastest local sources of cooking gear, food festivals and the like. Because of the 'net we are not only better able to look at cooking in a global fashion, we can look at the world of cooking and apply it to our lives and bring it to our tables.

The following bibliography was developed for our upcoming Cooking With KRL! program. Think of it as a kickoff list, an appetizer of sorts, something to help you whet your appetite and get you cruising our library catalog or the Internet. The world of cooking is at your fingertips, so let's go exploring!

Cooking with KRL!
Bibliography


Electronic Media

KRLCatalog http://www.krl.org/
Use the subject heading "Cookery".

Online food sites
Food Network http://www.foodnetwork.com/
Joy of Baking http://www.joyofbaking.com/
Epicurious http://www.epicurious.com/
My Recipes http://www.myrecipes.com/
Better Homes and Gardens www.bhg.com/recipes
101 Cookbooks http://www.101cookbooks.com/

Celebrity sites
Graham Kerr "Galloping Gourmet" http://www.grahamkerr.com/
Jacques Pepin http://www.jacquespepin.net/
Donna Hay www.donnahay.com/au
Martha Stewart http://www.marthastewart.com/
Rachael Ray http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/
Emeril Lagasse/ http://www.emerils.com/
Tom Douglas http://www.tomdouglas.com/
Jamie Oliver http://www.jamieoliver.com/
Nigella Lawson http://www.nigella.com/
Nigel Slater http://www.nigelslater.com/

Cooking DVD's
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Julia Child
Rachel Ray
America's Test Kitchen


Online Cookbook sellers
http://www.ecookbooks.com/
http://www.cooking.com/
http://www.amazon.com/
http://www.borders.com/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/
Old Cookbooks:
http://www.oldcookbooks.com/
http://www.vintagecookbook.com/

Blogs
http://nycdonutreport.blogspot.com/
http://www.101cookbooks.com/
http://glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com/
http://chocolateandzuchinni.com/
http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/
http://orangette.blogspot.com/

Radio shows
The Kitchen Sisters http://www.kitchensisters.org/
The Spendid Table http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/

Newspaper food columns
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/newspaper.htm

Nigel Slater's Guardian column
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/series/nigelslaterrecipes

Cookbook Awards:
International Association of Culinary Professionals: http://www.iacp.com/
James Beard Award: http://www.jamesbeard.org/

Books

Memoirs
Art of Eating /MFK Fisher
Garlic and Sapphires / Ruth Reichl
Tender at the Bone / Ruth Reichl
When French Women Cook/Madeline Kamman
My Life in France/Julia Child
MFK Fisher: Among the Pots and Pans /Joan Reardon
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment / Julie Powell
The Kitchen Diaries/Nigel Slater
Toast/Nigel Slater
Kitchen Confidential /Anthony Bourdain

Great Fiction food moments
“ A Clean, Well Lighted Place”/Ernest Hemingway
The Hobbit/Tolkien
Wind in the Willows/Kenneth Grahame
Like Water for Chocolate/Laura Esquivel
And to help tie that "food theme" into your monthly bookgroup meetings:
The Book Club Cookbook/Judy Gelman

Mysteries
A Puree of Poison/Claudia Bishop
A Catered Murder/Isis Crawford
Corpse Suzette/G. A. McKevett
Chocolate Snowman Murders: a Chocoholic Mystery/Joanna Carl

Reference
Larousse Gastronomique
Food Lover's Companion
Oxford Companion to Food
Bowes and Church Food Values

Cookbooks

Award Winners
James Beard
The Border Cookbook/Cheryl A Jamison and Bill Jamison
KitchenAid
Moosewood Cookbook/Mollie Katzen
IACP
Local Breads/Daniel Leader and Lauren Chattman

Classics
Joy of Cooking/Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer
Better Homes and Gardens
Betty Crocker
The Gourmet Cookbook

Celebrity
Martha Steward Living Cookbook/Martha Stewart
Flavors/Donna Hay
Guy Food/Rachel Ray
Every Day’s a Party/Emeril Lagasse
Tom’s Big Dinners/Tom Douglas
Jamie’s Kitchen: a complete cooking course/Jamie Oliver
How to be a Domestic Goddess/Nigela Lawson

Ethnic
Travel
Tale of 12 Kitchens/Jake Tilson
Culinaria Series
Italian
Marcella Says.../Marcella Hazen
Lidia's Italian Table/Lidia Bastianich
Spanish
1080 Recipes/Simone and Ines Ortega
Jewish
Jewish Cooking in America/Joan Nathan
Asian
Seductions of Rice/Jeffery Alford
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet/Jeffery Alford
Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook/Miller
Washoku:Recipes from the Japanese Home Kitchen/Elizabeth Andoh
Mexican
Seasons of My Heart: A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico/Susana Trilling
My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with more than 300 Recipes/Diana Kennedy
Rick Bayless Mexico One Plate at a Time/Rick Bayless

Regional
Southern
Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cookbook/Fannie Flagg
Ya'll Come Eat/Jaime Deen
Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen/Trisha Yearwood
In a Cajun Kitchen/Terri P. Wuerthner
Southwest
Los Barrios Family Cookbook/Diana Barrios Trevino
Savor the Southwest/Barbara Pool Fenzel
Fonda San Miguel/Tom Gilliland
Northwest
Pike Place Market Cookbook/Braiden Rex-Johnson
Ray's Boathouse/Ken Gouldthorpe
West Coast Cooking/Greg Atkinson
Kathy Casey's Northwest Table/Kathy Casey

Single Food Focuses
Bake Until Bubbly:The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook/Clifford A Wright
Country Egg, City Egg/Gayle Pirie and John Clark
Onion/Brian Glover
Delicious and Dependable Slow Cooker Recipes/Judith Finlayson

Vegetables
The Produce Bible/Leanne Kitchen

Chocolate
Chocolate: a Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light/Mort Rosenblum
Chocolate Cake/Michele Urvater
Ghiradelli Cookbook/Ghiradelli Chocolate Company

BBQ
Barbeque Nation/Fred Thompson
Asian Grilling/Su-Mei Yu
Peace, Love and Barbeque/Mike Mills and Amy Mills Tunnicliffe

Vegetarian
Amazing Soy/Dana Jacobs
Beautiful Bowl of Soup: the Best Vegetarian Recipes/Paulette Mitchell
Enchanted Broccoli Forest/Mollie Katzen
Tasahara Recipe Book/Edware Espe Brown
Laurel’s Kitchen/ Laurel Robinson

Baking
The Metropolitan Bakery Cookbook/James Barrett and Wendy Smith Born
Baking Illustrated, A Best Recipe Classic/Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Baking with Julia: based on the PBS series hosted by Julia Child/Dorie Greenspan

Sauces
Salsas and Tacos/The Santa Fe School of Cooking
Get Saucy/Grace Parisi
Mole!/Gwyneth Doland
Asian Flavors/Wendy Sweeetser

Seafood
New York Times Seafood Cookbook/Edited by Florence Fabricant

Just a few ideas! Share anything and everything you love that might make this list even better!

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