Comments on: Cookbooks & More, Part II

by: Marghi

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:55:35 +0000

oH NO! MORE TO FEED MY ADDICTION…..YES STRAND IS AN ABSOLUTE HAVEN….AS LONG AS YOU CAN JUMP INTO A CAB IMMEDIATELY AFTER…..LOVE THE CHOICES HERE….

by: Teresa

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:13:28 +0000

Oh no MM you’ve definitely fired up my adrenaline again to go pick-up copies of the books you featured. I promised i shall abstain first until i have accomplished the installation of new cabinets. I’m interested to get a hold a copy Pork & Sons as well.

by: kayenne

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:57:44 +0000

anyone ever heard of La Bonne Cuisine by Madame E. Saint-Ange? got it with a big discount from powerbooks when they recently held an outlet clearance sale. touted as The Original Companion for French Home Cooking. no photos, save for a few illustrations. i love the descriptions though… still going through it.

by: gemma

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:00:08 +0000

i got escoffier’s “le guide culinaire” for $3 from a sidewalk hawker in midtown nyc. i have searched all over for this book and never expected that i’ll end up finding it on the street.

a must stop in nyc is the store “kitchen arts and letters” in the upper east side. they have a nice collection of hard to find cookbooks.

by: Apicio

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:11:12 +0000

APM, I think it is in the French volume where they included critiques of particular classical dishes solicited from celebrated food authorities of the day such as Craig Clairborne that prompted Atlantic Monthly to call it the first self-roasting cookbook ever published. My absolute favorite there is the Cooking of Viena’s Empire whose pictures and narrative made my actual Austrian visit pale and anti-climactic.

Siopao, no apologies needed at all and that’s why I did not like the fruit volume.

And Millet, wow! a deluxe edition ran into thousands of dollars a few years ago.