What's cooking??

Just about all my cookbooks are packed up for the move (along with everything else I own) but I have to say that many of my favorites are the basics. You learn and master the basics, the classics, the beginning recipes, and then you expand and create your own.

Julia Child's _The Way To Cook_ is superb.
Of course Escoffier is not even in a sealed box, so I can check him out every now and then. I can't stand to have him away for too long.
A book I was recently turned on to, _The Bread Baker's Apprentice_ is also just amazing. It takes professional level bread recipes and scales them down for the home cook, while keeping the narrative intelligent and not remotely dumbed-down. Great great book. From Johnson & Wales, the alma mater of one of my chef-instructors from school.

Jeez Mr Still...

Don't you have Bill Granger's Sydney Food -
http://thegoodwebguide.com/chan_food/topic.php3?art_id=001507


and the new one by Bill Granger, called Bill's Food:
http://thegoodwebguide.com/chan_food/topic.php3?art_id=1503


or - order it through Amazon, via the A2K connection:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0864119917/qid=1048644497/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/026-4387651-5229264

Yes, we've got Bill's Food and Sydney Food. We also got the Doyle's Seafood Cookbook, Bilson's Recipe Book, Neil Perry's Rockpool, the Watermark Restaurant cookbook and we haven't even left the CBD yet! Stephanie Alexander, Ian Parmenter, Iain Hewitson, and everything by Donna Hay!

..and Cheap Eats in Sydney in case you don't feel like cooking!


That was the list for this month to date!! "Eat it, eat it, put it in your mouth and feed it, grab a banana, take the whole bunch, it doesn't matter what you had for lucnch, eat it...."

I am very opposed to cookbooks, but all people i know find my dislike strange, in the least. I don't like manuals either and choose not to use them, I believe in trial and error approach, in cooking as well.
But there is one cookbook that i found intriguing and even read long passages secretely. The cookbook of the Naked Chef, the England's wonder boy. The stuffed duck he described made my eyes almost jump out of my head!

Dagmaraka

I'm not a big cookbook user, but I love cookbooks.

I'm more a trial and error cook, but lately I seem to have more of the latter than I would like, which makes eating them - the former!

Perhaps it's time to start on the cookbooks!

Marie Claire fresh!! Make them go away!!!