#booksforcooks

[themelbournesupremacy]

There is something so beautiful (to me) about a serious bookstore. This one is a Melbourne institution called Books for Cooks and for the last few years has lived in around another Melbourne institution, the Queen Victoria Market #booksforcooks #queenvictoriamarket #victoriastreet #melbourne #fontlove #fortheloveofsignage (at Books for Cooks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSHCIY1JM_G/?utm_medium=tumblr

[trulysoulfullyeats]

This is somewhere you’ll find me post lockdown. @booksforcookslondon 📚 If you’re a lover of cookbooks and everything to do with cooking just like me then this is a place you’d be pleased to visit. 📍Address: 4 Blenheim Crescent, Notting Hill, London W11 1NN Books for Cooks is a place where a home cook or cooking/baking lover can skip a beat with glee. Books for Cooks is Notting Hill’s famous cookbook shop. Piled with thousands and thousands of tasty cookbooks where you can spend a day or two or weeks mesmerised by their collection. And you know what’s cooler? Cookbooks are put to the test in their own little café at the back of the shop. They also have cookery classes which take place in the demonstration kitchen upstairs. Is there anything cooler? If you’d like to join me to visit this place then make sure to leave a DM and we can go together. How exciting!! Check out more about them on booksforcooks.com My delicious recommendation in your in London or England and can travel here. #deliciouscravingsatvaniaskitchen #vaniarecommends #learntocookwithvania #cookbooklove #cookbooklover #londonfoodblog #londonfoodblogger #foodblogfeed #foodfeed #booksforcooks #booksforcookslondon #londonfoodie #londonfoodscene #londonfood #londonfoodblog #londonfoodguide #londonfoodbloggers #ukbloggers #ukfoodblogger #cookingathome #cookingfromscratch #foodbloggers #foodblogeats #foodbloggerpro #cookbookaddict #cookbookclub #cookbookauthor #cookbooksforsale #cookbookstagram (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXQsUyFfyh/?igshid=17f6i9bbbyj3u

[kittyskitchen]

**New Post** Books for Cook Xmas edition 🎄🎅🏻 I libri per cucinare più belli da regalare, da autoregalarsi o semplicemente da farci 'un pensierino'. Post online, link al blog nella bio 👉🏻 @elisakittyskitchen . . . #booksforcook #kittyskitchen #libri #dolci #kittyskitchen #foodandwine #ricette #libridicucina https://www.instagram.com/p/B6NL75JiPBi/?igshid=1flgdj4qaxn93

[elocinrevres]

Hi guys! @cheffieboybart and I are proud to announce the launch of @booksforcooks Kilkenny. #booksforcooks is a donation based initiative with the Kilkenny Library to help educate and inspire chefs through reading 📖📚 With your help, we hope to fill our chef’s corner in the Library with some of the most amazing cookbooks from the best restaurants, authors and publishers in the industry. So please, like and share our Facebook and instagram page 🙏🏼 If you want to help and donate some books, send us a DM 📩 #booksforcooks @foodontheedge ❤️❤️❤️📖 Show your support by donating a book!📖📚 How? Send us a DM. It’s easy as pie 🥧 #books #cook #cookbooks #chefs #cheflife #kilkennylibrary #bookworms #neverstoplearning #educate #irishchefs #kilkenny #probono #donate https://www.instagram.com/p/BpT1yT4Azli/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wsuhjowjwpiv

[vikirunge]

#booksforcooks #painordinaire

[books4yourkids]

NEXT BEST JUNIOR CHEF is the new trilogy written by Charise Mericle Harper & illustrated by Aurélie Blard-Quintard. Episode 1: Lights, Camera, Cook! Kicks off the behind-the-scenes look at a kid’s cooking competition show, with the grand prize of a personalized food truck! As a compulsive viewer of these shows, I almost felt like Harper wrote this book just for me. She has created a world in which a kid's cooking competition is suspenseful and exciting, but also inclusive, educational, supportive and joyful. I especially love in this book is the way that the character contestants in LIGHTS! CAMERA! COOK! educate the readers! Breaks in the text feature first person narrative from the characters talking about how they learned certain skills (YouTube tutorials!) as & cooking terms & recipe ideas. Harper also includes instructional backmatter showing "Essential Knife Techniques for the Young Chef." Two boys and two girls make up the cheftestants, representing a good mix of ages & talents. There is the wise-child contestant who also knows how to play the game along with an enthusiastic 9 year-old & the daughter of a chef who owns a French bistro, who says she speaks, "French, English & food." Then there is Rae who lives in a trailer park & learned to cook after watching cooking shows with her grandmother and being inspired by her multi-cultural neighbors. There are so many other little details that delighted me as I read this book (the Gadget Wall! Camera Cards! The Jell-o dunk tank!) I could go on and on. Please read my full review on my blog, books4yourkids.com. And, while one contestant is eliminated at the end of each book, Harper also captures the kindness of children. If you don't watch reality cooking competitions, it is markedly noticeable how much kinder, empathetic & supportive the child chefs are as as opposed to the adults. Harper imbues this warm, caring spirit into her book, making it feel all the more authentic and worth recommending! @chariseharper @hmhkids @aurelieblardquintard #kidsbooks #kidsbookstagram #cookingcompetition #kidscooking #lightscameracook #series #middlegrade #books4yourkids #bookstagram #booksforcooks #summerreading

[mainlyfoodworld]

Books for cooks. Here's a few of my collection. What's your go to book for cooking inspiration? . . . #cookbooks #booksforcooks #cookbookcollection #whatinspiresyou #cooking #learning #inmykitchen #homemade #fromscratch #homecooking #eatwith #mainlyfood (at Susanna's Kitchen)

[mybookishwords]

Books for Cooks. Melbourne. Best bookshop for anyone looking for anything food or cooking based. A must go to shop for all foodies. #girlwithapen #books #bookshops #booksforcooks #melbourne #holiday @booksforcooksAU #cookingbooks #foodfiction #foodporn #foodblogger

[gbpublishing]

Özlem's Turkish Table

by: Ozlem Warren🇹🇷

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Ozlem's Turkish Table

Recipe for Aubergine/eggplant and meatballs kebab, Fırında patlıcan kebabı, enjoy this delicious all in one bake al fresco, with some cool Cacık dip of yoghurt, cucumber and dried mint at a side.👌🏻

I love the ease of prepping this all in one, southern Turkish style dish. Please make sure to sprinkle salt over the aubergine slices and squeeze out their excess moisture with a paper towel. Then simply coat olive oil and seasoning over the aubergine slices. There is no need to sauté or fry the aubergine slices and the meatballs before baking. They bake all together very well, infusing their flavour to one another. You can prep this dish ahead of time and freeze leftovers successfully.

The meatballs in this recipe is based on my Turkish baked meatballs with vegetables, Firinda Sebzeli Kofte recipe, from my cookery book, Ozlem’s Turkish Table, another version of this delicious all in one bake.

I hope you enjoy the sun and this glorious dish - will share some prepping videos at my stories too -

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[brain]

Thank you Julia Ostro and Booksforcooks for making it possible to do something great for the most amazing partner a person could ever dream of meeting! :D

And thanks, Anna for all of your support and bravery during this transition in our lives together. :D

[gluttonyfair]

What cookbooks to buy for Christmas.

Over the years, I started asking myself how many dishes do I see myself cooking when I hold a cookbook in a book store and if I can’t answer more than three I put the book on the shelf. By doing that I’d managed to curb my cookbook purchasing enthusiasm.  Last week I’d surprised myself by buying two books in a row. The second one I pre-ordered without demo-ing (and it would later prove to be a bad move.) 

Since Christmas is around the corner I thought I’d write a post to prove this blog useful by recommending a couple for your food-loving friends:  The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science 

J. Kenji Lopez is influencing modern cafe food just like how Yotam Ottolenghi did 5 years ago. Don’t believe me? Go to any new cafes and I bet you will find a ‘smashed burger’ on their menu. If not a special waffle or a fried chicken dish. He is the mythbusters of cooking, experimenting with different recipes and showing his results on his personal website - seriouseats.com  Here’s a guy who does all the research on thermometers, kettles, the best way to cook eggs, a fool-proof salad vinaigrette, all with tight experiments and plain explanations to back up his conclusions. If he’s your friend, you will take advantage of him yet feel sorry for his lack of life at the same time. (Don’t worry he has a wife and probably is rolling in Google ad money.) 

Thing is, he is an average Joe version of Heston Blumenthal and should be getting his own tv show by now. But I’m guessing he is too hands on, too ‘rogue’ for mainstream media. (Recently he started gopro-ing his cooking process.)  His book is a really good time stamp of his philosophy. It is HUGE, probably the second biggest cook book I have and it reads like a textbook. He goes through the basics of cooking, and the tools, and ALL his approaches in a very down-to-earth tone. He questions, challenges and debunks a lot of conventional way of cooking and I have to say it works for me because I am anti-loving, anti-Nigella, and anti-intuition when it comes to cooking. 

The good (and bad) thing about the book is that it only cover the basic like eggs, meat, pasta, salad etc which is too American for me. At times I also feel ‘tired’ of all the science behind cooking. Like, dude, just relax and burn your eggs once in a while. Take it easy.  Buy this book for your anal retentive cook friends. 

All Under Heaven

So I’m not sure if you know that Chinese food can be categorised into eight regions - Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan and Zhejiang.  So context: The McSweeneys published this book, written by a non-Chinese (Carolyn Philips, has a blog titled Madame Huang’s Kitchen, married into a Chinese family), attempting to explain all eight regional food, covering over 300 recipes.  This is the book I ordered without previewing at the local Readings.  And of course, when I opened the book I would be greeted with no pictures; just illustrations. That is so McSweeneys I’m not even mad. Can you imagine photographing 300 Chinese dishes?  I scratched my head a bit with this book as I’m not sure who is the target market. It is too intimidating to serves as an introduction to Chinese food for beginners (read the last paragraph: no photo), yet as a Chinese, I roll my eyes a bit with recipes like green onion pancakes and zhajiangmian.  I guess it’s hard to explain, but imagine an Asian writing a book about the history of pies in the UK. As a Brit you’d probably appreciate someone going through all that trouble, taking interest in your historical culture yet at the same time amused to see ‘ fish and chips ‘ in a serif font, like a bible. Flipping through the book, I got hit by a huge wave of nostalgia. Carolyn, bless her soul, must have gone through so much trouble categorising each dish to match the region / country with the proper analogy. It is like my memory of Chinese food, materialised into an index.  I haven’t tried the recipes yet but you know, Chinese food is always Shaoxing wine, black vinegar and soy. Truth is I don’t trust any Chinese recipe because my uncle’s neighbour’s auntie will always have a better recipe. The best recipe online will always be the blog still using geocities.com  My point is, buy this book for your friends who are trying to feel smarter than they are (or marry into a Chinese family), which I guess is the core audience of the McSweeneys publications. Treat this book like a story book before cooking is a good start. 

Bonus: NIgel Slater If all this technical drilling and no-picture Chinese history nonsense make you feel claustrophobic, just grab anything by NIgel Slater. He looks out of his window, reaches into his drawer, grab some ingredients, writes a haiku with his fountain pen, and voila, a baked dish inspired by his memories from autumn leaves with a beautiful photograph.  If all else still fails, buy the new Anthony Bourdain one. 

[lovagemetender]

A fabulous painted wall in the back room of Books for Cooks. A good place to indulge my Nigel Slater addiction. #London #food #artichoke #figs #booksforcooks #cookbooks (at Books For Cooks)