/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Jamie Oliver's Italian
River Cottage Fish
Felicity Cloake's Perfect

Love fish and Italian. NEED to find a good American cook book though. In love with Gumbo and Jambalya atm. Any recs?

>>4620585
The first cookbook that I ever read was the "Silver Palate Cookbook", which is a true blue mishmash of American dishes. I have three editions of it, and they all are fantastic.

>>4620585
The gumbo recipe in World Kitchen

>>4620600
Sidenote - After looking through the indexes of all three editions, there is not a single Jambalya or Gumbo recipe. Ouch. What there is, however, is a really broad selection of a variety of dishes - not only American, but from elsewhere. Let me check downstairs and see what I can find.

Gumbo recipe from "New York Cookbook". Definitely Northern American food here.

I quite fancy the pitt cue cookbook, or maybe a charcuterie one

i want a chinese one too, is that any good OP?

>>4620633
It definitely looks good. I'm having a lot of fun reading the introduction which highlights (with plenty of lovely pictures) the core essential Chinese ingredients that you'll counter, the basic tools of the trade (various wok designs, cleavers, and so on), chopping techniques, meal designs...

A real fun read. The recipes look great with their lovely pictures that will be sure to drive me nuts with thoughts of "This doesn't look like that!". I'll be sure to post something on /ck/ when I finally cook something from it.

>>4620600
thanks, man. I'll give it a check on the Kindle. Just recently realised there's more to US cuisine than Burger King and KFC. There's loadsa cool shit out there!
Except Persimmon. I don't fuck with persimmon.

>>4620603
>>4620624
thnks bbz

I'm really liking the Jerusalem cookbook, but I've only read through a few cookbooks, ever. The Bread Baker's Apprentice is a classic for basic bread baking.

A friend just gave me a .pdf copy of Modernist Cuisine, haven't had time to read through it. I'm not sure I'll ever get into it though since I'm more of a "home cook"

I received this book as a prize recently (in the /ck/ challenge) and I'm going to start working my way through that, probably starting in the next week or so. It's been too hot here lately to do much intensive cooking, but it's cooled down a bit now. The kitchen is tolerable again finally.

>>4620666
Heh, someone trick you into eating a green one?

>>4620582

Balance and Harmony - Niel Perry
Cuisine du Temps - Jacques Raymond
Becasse: Inspirations and Flavours - Justin North

The first two asian/south east asian inspired cookbooks and the third is modern australian. These three all fit in well with the profile of my current kitchen but I've been looking for a creole style cookbook as well as some sort of introduction to molecular gastronomy (need to expand my horizons) any recommendations?

>>4620679
israili food is litterally just bland couscous, bland vegetables, and very poorly seasoned lamb

>>4621407
Yup.
I visited Israel when I was younger and my family liked it except the boring food.

>>4621407
That's weird. You'd think they'd have good gyros, at least.

>>4621424
>gyros
uhhhh that is Greek