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Saturday, December 17. 2011

Ten New Orleans Cookbooks

Thanksgiving this year was a NOLA theme, and we had some fairly specific requirements in terms of food preferences and seasonal availablity (especially after the California crab harvest was delayed).  So I borrowed all of the Cajun and Creole cookbooks the San Francisco Public Library had available and went through them.  Here's a series of one-paragraph reviews of various New Orleans cookbooks, so that you'll know what you want for yourself.  Click on through ...


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Sunday, April 17. 2011

Flatbreads and tarts from Italy, France and Greece

Title: Savory Baking from The Mediterranean

Author: Anissa Helou

Number of Recipes: 75 to 100

Recipe Breadth: 5.0

Recipe Quality (of those tested): 4.0

Extra Information: 3.5

Style: 3.0

Vegetarian Recipes: 70%

Overall Rating: 4.5

Category: cookbook, ethnic food, baking

Availability: New or Used


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Monday, January 10. 2011

The Basque Kitchen

Title: The Basque Kitchen

Author: Gerald (and Cameron) Hirigoyen

Number of Recipes: 100 to 150

Recipe Breadth: 3.5

Recipe Quality (of those tested): 4

Extra Information: 3.5

Style: 3.5

Vegetarian Recipes: 15-20%

Overall Rating: 3.5

Category: cookbook, ethnic food

Availability: Mostly Used


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Posted by The Fuzzy Chef in Book Reviews at 14:31 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Sunday, September 12. 2010

Three Intensely Ethnic Cookbooks from the SFPL

My sweetie recently discovered that the San Francisco Public Library actually has a very impressive collection of cookbooks, and that we can order others through inter-library loan.  So she's started borrowing; what better way to find out if we want to own a cookbook?  

Well, it didn't take long for our friendly Bookmobile staff to learn our tastes and start pulling books for us on their own.  Following are brief reviews of 3 cookbooks they lent us. Read on!


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