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I own several cookbooks, and I can honestly say that I like and learn something different from every single one of them, whether it's The Joy of Cooking (75th anniversary edition) or Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook or Peg Bracken's I Hate To Cook Book, there's something inside everyone that no other cookbook has, and I find that fun and interesting.
Food writer Melissa Lion decided to compare two famous cookbooks and writes about it over at the great book blog Bookslut.
She woke up one day and decided that she really wanted mac and cheese, so she consulted The Gourmet Cookbook and The Bon Appetit Cookbook to see which recipe she wanted to make, and that leads to some clever observations about the two tomes.
There's one line that made me smile because I feel the same way: "If I'm craving mac and cheese, by default, I'm not hungering for anything upscale or Italian. I want yellow American food." Heh.
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12-12-2007 @3:11PM rainey Smith said... TOTALLY Gourmet! I haven't made anything from it yet that hasn't been a winner.
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12-12-2007 @3:52PM Kassie said... That was the most entertaining cookbook review I have ever read. Awesome.
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12-12-2007 @5:11PM Kevin said... I like The Gourmet Cookbook so much that I'm cooking my way through the entire thing (www.gourmetproject.ca), but paging through Bon Appetit's book didn't move me. I get both magazines, and I always read Gourmet first. It's the hands down winner in my books. I've made the mac and cheese she tried, and it really was very good. The recipe is available on epicurious
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/14930
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12-12-2007 @7:04PM Janis said... Thanks for this article!
Kevin---appreciate the link & will try--thanks!
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12-14-2007 @6:03PM Melissa Lion said... Bob,
Thanks so much for the shout out! I'm glad you liked it. That column is my favorite thing I write on the internet. Kassie, wow, thank you!
Take care,
Melissa
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