Archive for the 'cookbooks' Category
| Christine Manfield's Tasting India - Interview & Recipe included |  |
Jan 15th, 2012 |
When I first opened Tasting India, I had a hard time choosing the very first recipe I would cook from it – so many tempting choices! But as soon as I spotted Onion Bhajias I was sold, a snack I had wanted to recreate since we had eaten them numerous times in Singapore.
| Green Onion Pancakes - I finally gave in |  |
Oct 6th, 2011 |
Bee’s recipe looked like a manageable effort, each step well illustrated and I even had green onions in my fridge! I couldn’t back out again and I am so glad I didn’t! These pancakes are just incredibly good – make them now, you won’t regret it.
| Food bloggers turning cookbook authors & vice versa - Three lists |  |
Sep 16th, 2011 |
The first signed book contracts by food bloggers were a small sensation back then, in the early days of food blogging, nowadays publishing houses and agents are screening the food blogosphere quite thoroughly for new talents – and the continuing success of food bloggers’ cookbooks proves them just right.
| David Thompson's pork skewers - Busy times |  |
Sep 28th, 2010 |
Of course there is always an exception to the rule, in this case: the coffeetable-worthy “THAI STREET FOOD” by Asian food guru David Thompson. Breathtakingly beautifully photographed, I had been eyeing the grilled pork skewers for weeks…
| Cooking with the guys: Part Two - Homemade Coffee Liqueur |  |
Nov 26th, 2009 |
If you invest 5 minutes in its preparation and are patient enough to then let it sit at least for one week on your kitchen shelf, you will be rewarded with the most fragrant golden digestive you can imagine.
| Cooking with the guys: Part One - Past'e lenticchie |  |
Oct 29th, 2009 |
Show me a neat – doable – pasta shape and I’m sold. It doesn’t take much to twist my arm and that’s what happened when I first laid hands on a dear friend’s book.
| Out of order |  |
Aug 29th, 2009 |
Lots of new recipes in the pipeline, but sadly my computer decided to bend inwards and die on short notice – no goodbye, no farewell only the dreaded blue screen of death.
| Is it Italian? |  |
Jan 16th, 2008 |
…tempting nevertheless. My first choice was slightly influenced by the leeks in my fridge, which have been waiting for their gala display longer than necessary already. But then, is there a better ending to a leek’s life than becoming julienne for risotto? I hardly doubt that. Besides,…
| Cookbooks - fresh from the press |  |
Mar 24th, 2007 |
Sometimes months go by and non of the cookbooks that pass through my hands make my heart jump for joy. This is not to say that those books are bad – they are not – there’s just nothing extraordinary about them, nothing that makes them stand out from the crowd. Then,…
| Favorites of 2006 - cookbooks and music |  |
Jan 4th, 2007 |
Just like you can be certain to see Dinner for one on New Years Eve, well, on German TV anyway, it’d surprise if you hadn’t stumbled over one of the many Top-Whatever-Lists of 2006
| A Tale of 12 Kitchens |  |
Nov 4th, 2006 |
…but then there is this rare occasion when you get hold of a very special book and you know it too the very moment you open it. Books that meet my individual taste spot-on and sometimes even exceed my anticipation…
| Working the plate |  |
Oct 14th, 2006 |
German postal service and I not necessarily see eye to eye, up until recently anyway. But it’s changing, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Since I’m primarily an online book shopper, most of my new cookbook fixes I get via mail.
| Digital meets Print |  |
Mar 20th, 2006 |
Not so long ago we received an invitation by GRÄFE UND UNZER (publishing house) to join a book lauch event in the center of Munich. GRÄFE UND UNZER, in case you haven’t heard of them before, have been market leader for cookbooks in Germany for over thirty years now – always known for down to earth, comprehensible and no-fuss cookbooks.
| The Silver Spoon |  |
Nov 10th, 2005 |
The bible of authentic Italian cooking, “Il Cucchiaio d’argento” was first published in Italy in 1950, being Italy’s best-selling cookbook for over fifty years now.
| On Cookbooks |  |
May 14th, 2005 |
Apart from the stacks of post-it like notes the cookbooks photographed are only the ones that ganged together, single ones that are scattered all over the place…
