Books for Cooks

A collection of must-reads for the avid or everyday cuisiner!


Cookbook Digest 

Cook Book Digest Magazine - Grass Roots Publishing Co., Inc.

A chef's worst nightmare? You buy a cookbook, and the recipe doesn't work. Cookbook Digest removes the guesswork with thorough reviews by professionals and recipes you can try out yourself. Every issue covers some 20 international and specialty cookbooks, with detailed instructions, photos, helpful hints and new products. This is a must for any chef or baker.


Food and Wine 

Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2008 - Dana Cowin & Kate Heddings (Editors)

Almost one million subscribers heartily agree: there’s always something delicious going on in Food & Wine. And it’s all here in the annual cookbook, which includes every recipe published in the magazine during 2007 more than 600 of them accompanied by scrumptious-looking photographs. The contributors remain absolutely stellar, cuisine’s finest, including such cookbook authors, chefs, and food luminaries as Jacques Pepin, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Paula Wolfert, and Al Roker. Plus, this year’s volume is organized seasonally, so it’s even easier to find the right recipe for the right occasion. Mouthwatering dishes like Emeril Lagasse’s Shrimp-and-Corn Bisque, Mario Batali’s T-Bone Fiorentina with Sautéed Spinach, and Thomas Keller’s Over-the-Top Mushroom Quiche were tested on home appliances, making them easy to re-create and delicious to eat. In addition, the volume includes 50 brand-new test-kitchen tips, as well as an extensive glossary of accessible wines. Here’s real food that real people who want to eat well can actually prepare; recipes that reflect the many ways we cook today.


Comfort Foods 

Comfort Foods - Gooseberry Patch Hardcover Books

Cheesy, creamy, gooey, chocolatey...all the feel-good dishes you crave! Gooseberry Patch’s new Comfort Foods cookbook is packed with 247 recipes like chilly-day chicken pot pie, crispy bacon mac 'n cheese, Sunday beef & noodles, slow-cooked creamy potatoes, cherry-apple crisp and buttermilk pancakes. Quick & easy cooking tips for making food scrumptious too. Hardcover Cookbook, 224 pages.


Kids Cook 1-2-3 

Kids Cook 1-2-3 - Rozanne Gold

Kids Cook 1-2-3 offers 125 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, healthy snacks, side dishes and desserts. It covers cooking safety and kitchen basics, plus equipment and measuring. And there’s an excellent paragraph about flavor and taste that explains how your taste changes as you grow older. Gold also explains how to follow a recipe, how to set all your ingredients in front of you before you begin—what chefs call mise en place. Gold’s recipes combine sophistication, healthy food and a kid-friendly approach, but many kids will need adult guidance with this book.


Cooking Light 

Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2008 - Cooking Light Magazine

A chef's worst nightmare? You buy a cookbook, and the recipe doesn't work. Cookbook Digest removes the guesswork with thorough reviews by professionals and recipes you can try out yourself. Every issue covers some 20 international and specialty cookbooks, with detailed instructions, photos, helpful hints and new products. This is a must for any chef or baker.