This post includes a review of one of my favourite cookbooks and my own personal sourdough journey. (more…)
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I have been due to read a Sandor Katz book for awhile now. I am glad I was able to get the revised edition of this book. Fermentation has become a hobby of mine for the last few years. I've made sourdough, kombucha, milk kefir, water kefir, jun kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, and recently started lacto-fermentation of pickles and garlic. On a regular basis, I make jun kombucha at least twice a week and sourdough almost…
Marcus Wareing is a Michelin starred London based chef. He is widely known on UK TV for judging "Masterchef: The Professionals". I've been a fan of Wareing since watching him judge "Great British Menu". Masterchef: The Pros is one of my absolute favourite TV programmes. Last year, I was lucky enough to dine at Marcus at the Berkeley. It was one of the best dining experiences. I hope to go back one day. I was…
I am in a bit of a reading rut lately. I do find that reading about books and reading in general helps me ease back into reading more regularly. I have had this on my To Be Read list for awhile. It's a lovely memoirs where each chapter is about a memory in the author's life, a book, and a recipe to go along with it. Since the author and I are almost exactly the…
This is a graphic novel and cookbook in one. It's about Cohen's life as a chef and vegetable focused restaurant owner. Along side recipes and discussions on how to cook vegetables well, there is a lot of on how the struggles and challenges of opening and managing a restaurant. It may be a slightly easier outside of New York City, but I have always been wary of that industry. As much as I like food…
The Smitten Kitchen food blog is my favourite food blog and has been for many years so when Ms Perelman announced that she was going to release a book, I knew I would eventually buy it. Most of my cookbooks were sourced from a book surplus site which is more discounted than Amazon. However, I bought this book full price from Amazon.ca because I knew I would love it. Food and Cookbooks are in general…
This a follow up review to one I made when I first read this book in 2014. However, I had not made anything from this book. I still find it useful even though the costs and availability do not apply to my country or growing season. However, I really enjoyed reading about Reese's experiments. She offers some very basic and classic recipes (pasta making, sauces, etc.) to some less typical ones (salted pork, cured salmon).…
This is the first of three Paul Hollywood books I will review. As someone who loves baking, most of my cookbooks are focused on baking from the sweet to savoury to bread. This book covers that. It is the British edition of the book which I ordered from Book Outlet. I do prefer the UK editions of cookbooks. What is a bit inconvenient is that Hollywood loves Stilton cheese which I can't eat due to…
When looking through my cookbooks I am surprised I had never written about this book. I love this cookbook. This is the photographic edition of Mark Bittman's How to Cook: The Basics. I have two other Bittman cookbooks largely because of how much I adored this one. I don't know if I'll get around to those for a long time. This is a fantastic cookbook for someone starting out to cook for the first. Even…
I have decided to challenge myself to read and use cookbooks from my vast collection. As of this writing, I have almost 45 cookbooks. Many that I have not properly read or used. This ongoing personal challenge will help me assess my collection, evaluate authors, and possibly, give/sell some away. I am going to make more of an effort on reviewing cookbooks. To help myself and anyone who reads these reviews, I have made some…
Oh! How I adore a good food book. It's easier for me to be pleased with cookbooks and food books. They are real comforts for me. I started reading this book on my Kindle in 2012. I liked the first couple of chapters so much that I was able to score a cheap copy off Book Outlet. Then I put thoughts about this book aside until this May. The author set out to try various…
Cookbook Review: This cookbook was one of three new cookbooks I bought last Boxing Day. I have about eight cookbooks now, seven I got in the past year. Of all these, I've used this one the most. The main reason being is that right now, I don't really cook or bake that much, but in the summer, I did canning, but this book doesn't just have recipes for canning. First off, this book is good…