What Are You Reading?

[woodford]

I'm reading James Villas' "Between Bites." Before that it was Calvin Trillin's "Tummy Trilogy."

How about you?

[fifi]

Robb Walsh Are You Really Going To Eat That?

We have been discussing it here.

Great book. Get it.

[Mayhaw Man]

Jeffery Steingarten-The Man Who Ate Everything

Just reread A. Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential in my continuing quest to keep from doing something stupid (again....for the third time.....must not do it.......need a life.......need my wife......aaaaghaghahagha!).

[fresco]

Skimmed Nigel Slater's Appetite, a Christmas present. A lovely looking book, but pretty basic.

A few pages into Michael Bond's Monsieur Pamplemousse Omnibus, about a former Surete detective who is now a gourmand and inspector for a Michelin-like restaurant rating company.

[ronnie_suburban]

Jeremiah Tower's California Dish: What I Saw (and Cooked) at the American Culinary Revolution.

=R=

[Suzanne F]

Elizabeth Rozin's The Primal Cheeseburger.

I finally admitted to myself that Near a Thousand Tables requires more concentration than I can give it before going to sleep. So that's back in the bookshelf.

[malachi]

It Must Have Been Something I Ate by Jeffery Steingarten

(edit: typo)

Edited December 27, 2003 by malachi (log)

[Mabelline]

"The Lewis and Clark Cookbook" by Leslie Mansfield.2002

"The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark; Recipes for an Expedition" by Mary Gunderson.2003

Okay, so everybody up here is gaa gaa about all this stuff coming up.

My little ol' landlady got them for me.

Edited December 27, 2003 by Mabelline (log)

[chefreit]

I am reading "Fast Food Nation" by, Eric Schlosser.

It is a little politically slanted in my opinion….But you know about opinions, there like assholes ect. ect.

A-n-y-way, after the recent headlines it’s apparent that the meat packing industry needs another overhaul.

WELCOME TO "THE JUNGLE"

Edited December 28, 2003 by chefreit (log)

[rozrapp]

Animal Husbandry, by Laura Zigman. The title sounds as though it should be food-related, but it definitely is not!

[glenn]

I'm gonna harp on this some more as it was my most favoritest book in the genre of B's Kitchen Confidential. Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life by Toby Cecchini is discussed a bit over here.. This is required reading for anyone that remotely liked KC. My only criticism is that there were too many 7+ letter words. Jeez, a bartender with a brain.

[bloviatrix]

I'm reading Russ Parson's How to Read a French Fry. It's fascinating stuff. I keep reading sections out loud to Blovie.

[Schielke]

The Babbo Cookbook and The French Laundry Cookbook. I was a good boy this year!

Ben

[fifi]

"The Lewis and Clark Cookbook" by Leslie Mansfield.2002

"The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark; Recipes for an Expedition" by Mary Gunderson.2003

Okay, so everybody up here is gaa gaa about all this stuff coming up.

My little ol' landlady got them for me.

Which of these books do you like the best? They look fascinating.

(I hate these threads. I get a twitch on the mouse button to go to Amazon.)

[Mabelline]

Definitely the Leslie Mansfield. Although they are both good, the Mansfield work is far more detailed. Mary Gunderson's is good for using quotes from the journal and then aligning them with a recipe. "Buffalo Boudin Blanc" in the style of Sacajawea's hubby, Toussaint Charbonneau- sorry, I love that name- had to stick it in somehow. Anyway, most of the recipes in both books are moderned up, so you'll cook them.

Edited December 28, 2003 by Mabelline (log)

[suzilightning]

"The Lewis and Clark Cookbook" by Leslie Mansfield.2002

"The Food Journal of Lewis and Clark; Recipes for an Expedition" by Mary Gunderson.2003

Okay, so everybody up here is gaa gaa about all this stuff coming up.

My little ol' landlady got them for me.

Which of these books do you like the best? They look fascinating.

(I hate these threads. I get a twitch on the mouse button to go to Amazon.)

fifi - twitch and check your local library's card catalog. if they don't have it ask for an interlibrary loan and if you really like it then buy it. i do it all the time

at present no food reading except for old copies of food mags from work which, after i finish reading, go back to the library for sale. in the last month did read cosmopolitan by toby cecchini and thought it was a brilliant book. also read rob walsh's book and think him in some ways superior to steingarten. his essay on soul food in prison (angola) really tied into the food in prison and as punishment thread.

tangentially just started "under the peacock fan" about 4 women who followed their husbands/siblings to india under the raj. they had to adapt full georgian/victorian sensibilities to a new land and deal with holding banquets/durbars/at homes, etc. and all associated food/drink working with an interesting palate of foods

[Suzanne F]

Suzi -- have you read Curries and Bugles by Jennifer Brennan, or The Raj at Table by David Burton? They'd be good companion pieces to the one you're reading (which I'll have to look for now )

[woodford]

fifi - twitch and check your local library's card catalog. if they don't have it ask for an interlibrary loan and if you really like it then buy it. i do it all the time

Definitely! If I had to pay for even 10% of the books I read, I would go bankrupt. It's a great resource for those of us who have more curiosity than cash.

[Carolyn Tillie]

Just released Feast - A History of Grand Eating by Victoria & Albert Museum Director, Roy Strong.

Just started it, but was immediately drawn to its lush cover and the fact that it is well-illustrated.

[Anna N]

A huge haul from the library:

Jacques Pepin Celebrates

How to be a Domestic Goddess (Nigella Lawson). Her books always surprise me. Just returned "Forever Summer" and was so happy to see that she was not on the Alice Water's bandwagon. We don't all live in areas where it is forever summer and if I were to try and eat locally and seasonally now my diet would consist of snow cones and pine needles. Sometimes you have to make the best of what's available.

China Moon Cookbook by Barbara Tropp

Two by Donna Hay: Classics Book 1 and New Food Fast

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Rodin - made her first recipe -- Dukkah-- and am totally hooked on the stuff!

Our library ususally limits us to two books on a subject but they are more lenient with cookbooks and I hauled The Dane along and made him sign out 3 books on his card!

Then picked up 3 more books at a charity shop: The Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special; Dinners for Two by Sharon O'Connor (Recipes from Romantic Country Inns); and Magnificient Salads (a promotional book from the GWA Group - no idea who they are).

I treat them all like a marvellous buffet and dip in and out of them as the mood swings making notes and tagging pages with sticky notes for later transcribing.

[Mabelline]

Anna, that's food book heaven. "Snow cones and pine needles"- in the immortal phrase of fifi: BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

[marthapook]

Always reading On Food and Cooking.

Just finished Ruth's compilation Endless Feasts.

Also Gray's The Element's of Taste.....all this tastes that pull and tastes that push.....very very heady stuff.

Right now, on to Narayan's Monsoon Diary.

[jo-mel]

Dunlop's "Land of Plenty" (Sichuanese cooking)

Duffy's "New York Cooks" - 100 best from New York Magazine. ( a Christmas gift)

[rozrapp]

...at a charity shop:  Dinners for Two by Sharon O'Connor (Recipes from Romantic Country Inns)

Anna, What a coincidence! An organization I belong to runs an annual used book sale. (It's our major fund raiser.) During the year, we members sort the books and have first dibs on what comes in. Two weeks ago, I took home the very same Dinners for Two.

[zennenn]

I am rereading an old favorite - More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin. I love her description of lime pickle in this book, and I keep meaning to try it but never have!

Jenn