Cookbooks
Some Favorite Cooking Websites
- Smitten Kitchen: Deb Perelman makes great food out of her tiny NYC apartment and has a bunch of cookbooks, too.
- Epicurious: Bon Appetit and Gourmet Magazine recipes
- Netflix documentary and cookbook: “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat” with Samin Nosrat, popular US chef and contributor to the New York Times Magazine. These concepts changed my cooking!
- facebook.com/instant pot easy Indian recipes. I’m an Instant Pot fan. Save time, energy, make some great Indian food.
- America’s Test Kitchen: Access to lots of well-tested recipes! Used to be Cooks Illustrated.
Cookbooks to coax you into the kitchen
Brown, Edward Espe. The Tassajara Recipe Book. Boston, MA, Shambhala Publications, 1985.
Brown, Edward Espe. The Tassajara Bread Book. Boston, MA, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1970.
Childs, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone. Mastering the Art of French Cooking. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 2009.
Editors at America’s Test Kitchen. The Best Mexican Recipes; Kitchen-tested recipes put the real flavors of Mexico within reach. Boston, MA, Penguin Random House Publisher Services, 2015.
Editors at Cook’s Illustrated. The New Best Recipe, Revised Edition. Brookline, MA, America’s Test Kitchen, 2004.
Katz, Rebecca; Edelson, Mat. The Cancer Fighting Kitchen. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2009.
Madison, Deborah; Brown, Edward Espe. The Greens Cookbook. New York, Bantam Books, 1987.
Ottolenghi, Yotam; Tamimi, Sami. Jerusalem: A Cookbook, Berkeley, Ten Speed Press, 2012.
Shockey, Kirsten K and Christopher. Fermented Vegetables: Creative Recipes for Fermenting 64 Vegetables and Herbs in Krauts, Kimchis, Brined Pickles, Chutneys, Relishes and Pastas. North Adams, MA, Storey Publishing, 2014.
Simonds, Nina. A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, health-giving recipes from Asian Kitchens. New York, Alfred A Knopf, 2011.
Wood, Rebecca. The Splendid Grain: Robust, Inspired Recipes for Grains with Vegetables, Fish, Poultry, Meat and Fruit. New York: William and Morrow Publishing, 1997.
Moskowitz, Isa Chandra and Romero, Terry Hope. Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press. 2007.
Emmons, Didi. Vegetarian Planet. Boston, MA, The Harvard Common Press, 1997.
O’Donnell, Kate. Everyday Ayurveda cooking for Calm, Clear Mind: 100 Sattvic Recipes. Shambhala Press, USA. 2018.
Nosrat, Samin, MacNaughton, Wendy. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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