Comments on: Barbara’s Cookbook Gift Guide

By: Maureen

Maureen — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:35:37 +0000

Barbara – I don’t know if you have a Costco where you live – but they are selling “The Silver Spoon” for $17 less than the suggested sale price. I bought it last night for $22.99

By: Teich.Net :: All In » The Gift of Words About Food

Teich.Net :: All In » The Gift of Words About Food — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:49:41 +0000

[...] Anyone looking for cookbooks to give your kitchen-dwelling friends–as well as those who may need some coaxing to go near a stove–has no dearth of Favorites and Recommendations lists to consult this year, including Heidi of 101 Cookbooks‘ article for NPR and Barbara’s commentary on the big newspapers’ roundups at Tigers and Strawberries, a blog I recently discovered through the Food Blog Award nominations I urged you all to check out last week. I’ll leave the cookbooks to them and share instead my list of beloved books about food and wine. [...]

By: Barbara

Barbara — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:49:59 +0000

I tried to pick stuff that wasn’t on everyone else’s list in the universe!

Glad you liked it–fwiw–I like your list, too, Heather!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:35:52 +0000

Hehe… found this after doing my own kitchenware/cookbook recommendation list. There are so many cookbooks I’d recommend that I tried to just pick a small sampling of a wide variety… one or two pretty “coffee table” books for the people who go for that, one or two that seemed to be in the holiday spirit, and some that were just plain yummy favorites. I like your list; thank you for putting it out there for folks to see!

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:24:30 +0000

I even know someone else I can buy a copy for, Owen! My Aunt Judy! (Thanks for reminding me!)

Nose to Tail was one of the ones I almost added, MZN–but, I figured I had already put on the list Charcuterie, so, I shouldn’t weight the list too heavily with meat.

As for pig’s blood–try the largest Asian market you can find, in the refrigerated section near the meat. If there is a Lotte (Lotte is a Korean supermarket chain–as large as one of our Safeways, but all Asian food–the produce section is amazine) near you, they will definately carry it. I used to give tours at the local Lotte in Columbia, Maryland, so I know–I used to try and sqeak the gwailo past the gallon after gallon of pig blood, but usually ended up explaining it anyway.

Not that it bothers me–but when you ride herd on twenty very American people in the middle of a market with many strange and sometimes (to typical American sensibilities) scary things, sometimes “just one more thing” is one too many.

Thanks, Bry! I see that the snow foiled your plan to come visit the stove! That’s okay–I woke up and it is still here.