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Meat: A Kitchen Education

Meat: A Kitchen Education

TweetAmazon.com Review Fall into Cooking Featured Recipe from James Peterson's Meat: Roast Rack of LambMeat is based on the seemingly paradoxical philosophy that we should eat less meat than the 8 ounces per person per day Americans put away now. Instead of so much meat, we should eat better meat. Insisting on better quality and approaching [...]

November 30 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

TweetFrom Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hesser, a food columnist for the New York Times, offers a superb compilation of the most noteworthy recipes published by the paper since it started covering food in the 1850s. What she has produced is no less a chronicle of American culinary history--an evolutionary progression that marks the notable and [...]

November 29 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »

Madhur Jaffrey’s Step-by-Step Cooking: Over 150 Dishes from India and the Far East, Including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia

Madhur Jaffrey’s Step-by-Step Cooking: Over 150 Dishes from India and the Far East, Including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia

TweetAmazon.com Review Madhur Jaffrey's Step-by-Step Cooking fearlessly brings the intense flavors of Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India to American home kitchens. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian made Jaffrey a household name, and her Indian cookbooks have garnered her wide recognition as a doyenne of Indian cooking. Here she extends that [...]

November 26 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »

Indonesian Street Food Secrets

Indonesian Street Food Secrets

TweetFrom Booklist The multimedia cookbook puts in an appearance in Indonesian Street Food Secrets by Keith Ruskin Miller. Travelers to this tropical island nation enjoy eating from the produce of its many street vendors, who sell all manner of grilled, fried, and steamed snacks. Miller has gathered recipes for some of these items. Since Indonesian ingredients are [...]

November 25 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »

Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure

Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure

TweetAmazon.com Review You may go to Indonesia for puppet theater and white beaches, but you'll return dreaming of nasi goreng (fried rice) and opor ayam (spicy coconut chicken). Still, there are so many Indonesian treasures that you might have tried, if only you'd known how to ask for them, and felt reasonably confident of the ingredients. Happily, [...]

November 24 2010 | Posted in Books | Read More »