I do! I enjoy cooking and I love eating, but I find myself reading cookbooks more than actually using them. I get lost in the photos, ingredient lists and visions of elegant dinner parties that I will never have!
My latest cookbook read?
Chocolate for Breakfast -- the title alone should explain why this book is a great read. The photos and the author's description of how to cook are wonderful. I will never make one of these recipes, but who cares!
And, although there wasn't cooking involved, I did enjoy reading Cheese & Beer and thinking of the appetizer party I will never hold!
What was your last great cookbook read?
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I was lucky enough to have been able to take the Top Chef cruise in April. While there I met Richard Blais, author of Try This at Home: Recipes from my Head to Your Plate and snagged an autograph. This book is funny, witty and Richard informed me that the family really does eat spaghetti the way it is shown in the book!!!!
I can sit for hours on the kitchen floor reading cookbooks (the location adds to the ambience)...just imagining all the feasts I would cook is fun -- and no dishes to wash.
My most recent reading-more-than-cooking foray was Nathan Myrhvold's "Modernist Cuisine at Home" [978-0982761014], a reincarnation (and more accessible version) of his incredible "Modernist Cuisine: the Art and Science of Cooking" series [978-0982761007]. How can you use science to make something "new"? The images are breathtaking, the recipes sound amazing, and learning about the science behind the food was educational.
If you ever have a chance to hear him talk, go! He is funny, brilliant, and elevates food to its proper place. and he loves to inform oenophiles that the best way to "breathe" wine is to whir it in a Vitamix (the gasps from the audience were quite audible...lol)
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