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Dorie Greenspan
Reviews by Dorie Greenspan
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The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes by Anupy Singla
In 50 well-crafted and imaginative recipes, Anupy shows you how to use the modern slow cooker to get the beautiful, complex flavors of her ancient native cuisine. A book that will surprise you.
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The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living by Mark Bittman
...will know about his explorations into how what and the way we eat affects the environment. Here he gives us 500 recipes that allow us to eat well, tread lightly and do good.
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Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips by Ina Garten
... let me be the first to break the news that Ina’s got a new book packed with her signature simple-but-super-tasty recipes and lots of tips to make life even more delicious than it already is.
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Radically Simple: Brilliant Flavors with Breathtaking Ease: 275 Inspiring Recipes from Award-Winning Chef Rozanne Gold by Rozanne Gold
...best known for her incredible ability to take 3 ingredients and turn them into something delectable...so you can only imagine what sorcery she’s capable of when she allows herself just a few more.
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In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories about the Food You Love by Melissa Clark
Taken from Melissa’s popular column in The New York Times, the book gives you 150 eclectic recipes and just as many stories. A lovely kitchen companion.
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New Haven Chef's Table: Restaurants, Recipes, and Local Food Connections by Linda Giuca
Linda is a legend in the newspaper world and the genie who made the food section of The Hartford Courant a must-read...Here she makes the work of New Haven’s most exciting chefs doable for us at home.
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High Flavor, Low Labor: Reinventing Weeknight Cooking by J. M. Hirsch
...reading and cooking from this book, I feel as though I know him: his energy and his real enthusiasm cooking come off every page.
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Nuts in the Kitchen: More Than 100 Recipes for Every Taste and Occasion by Susan Herrmann Loomis
Susan’s a really good storyteller, a really good recipe-writer and a very imaginative cook and this book shows off all her talents.
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One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking: 600 Recipes from the Nation's Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Fishermen, Pit-Masters, and Chefs by Molly O'Neill
Molly has not just collected recipes from every nook and cranny, farmer, teacher, preacher and maven from all over America, but listened to their stories and passed them along to us.
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Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes by Mark Bitterman
To say that Mark is passionate about salt is to fall seriously short of describing his depth of knowledge and the excitement..He loves the stuff and knows every grain of it...and it’s all in his book
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The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes Carnivores Will Devour by Kim O'Donnel
You think you’ve heard of meatless recipes for those who love meat before, but you ain’t heard nothin’ yet, if you haven’t heard what these two gifted women have to say, cook and show.
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Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers by Pam Anderson
When Pam says something’s ‘perfect,’ you can take her word for it. This is hallmark Pam: the dishes are unfussy but great-looking, easy but packed with flavor.
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The Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef by Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern
You don’t have to be gluten-free to love this book, but you do have to love life, friends and good food.
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto by Joan Reardon
I read this book from cover to cover and then I read it again – I couldn’t bear to be separated from these articulate, fiercely intelligent, energetic and deeply caring women.
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The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century by Amanda Hesser
Amanda’s introductions to the 1,400+ recipes are wonderfully written, fascinating and chockfull of the kinds of nuggets of information you’ll be happy to pull out at the chicest cocktail party.
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The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe from Each Year 1941-2009 by Gourmet Magazine Editors
There’s a picture for every cookie, making it all the more difficult for us bakers to decide where to start – every cookie has its charms.
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Bon Appétit Desserts: The Cookbook for All Things Sweet and Wonderful by Barbara Fairchild and Bon Appétit Magazine Editors
It’s a comfort to have these recipes neatly bound, especially for me, since I clip recipes like mad and then can’t ever seem to put my hands on them when I need them.
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Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours by Kim Boyce and Amy Scattergood
Now that there are so many interesting grains available in supermarkets, don’t you wonder what you can do with them?...Well, Kim Boyce will see that you do.
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Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking by Nick Malgieri
For 30 years, Nick Malgieri has been at the head of the class of baking teachers and now he’s put all his lessons between the covers of this book...plenty of recipes to practice what you’ve learned.
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Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes from Around the World by Richard Sax
Only Richard could have written this remarkable book. He’d been collecting and perfecting the recipes for this book for years; it was the work he was meant to do.
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Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes by David Lebovitz
He says that it contains his ‘best recipes’ and it does – or at least it contains his best recipes up until the moment his editor said it was deadline time and he had to stop inventing new ones.
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Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Cafe by Joanne Chang and Christie Matheson
...her sweets are down-to-earth, many grown-up versions of the sugary sweets of our childhood dreams. Pop Tarts, anyone? Clearly written and beautifully photographed, Flour is a baker’s treat.
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Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home: More Than 100 Addictively Good Artisanal Recipes by Jeni Britton Bauer
The 2012 Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks vs. The Art of Living According to Joe Beef
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The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts by Frédéric Morin and David McMillan and Meredith Erickson
The 2012 Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks winner vs. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home
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French Bistro: Seasonal Recipes by Bertrand Auboyneau and Francois Simon
..reading about a restaurant and cooking its recipes is not the same as really being there, but hey, it’s not bad. Not bad at all. Especially when the book is as good, and as evocative, as this one.
Biography
Dorie Greenspan has written or cowritten eleven cookbooks, including Baking with Julia, which won a James Beard Award and an IACP Award; Desserts by Pierre Hermé, which was named IACP Cookbook of the Year; and Chocolate Desserts by Pierre Hermé, which won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the best English-language cookbook. She created many recipes for The All-New Joy of Cooking and is a special correspondent for Bon Appétit, for which she writes the “Tools of the Trade” column.
Read Bonnie Benwick's interview with Dorie in The Washington Post.