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 Everyone has a favorite season, and for many it is just now beginning. If you're a sucker for apples, pears, winter squash and other harvest foods, then this month's cookbook picks should be of particular interest. Regardless of your seasonal preference, however, everyone is likely to enjoy our picks for fall entertaining and do-it-yourself cooking.
The Apple Lover's Cookbook by Amy Traverso (W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) The apple is an amazing fruit, equally suited to breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and everything in between. In The Apple Lover's Cookbook, Amy Traverso provides a selection of tantalizing recipes for all of those meals. While doing so, Traverso guides us through the numerous apple varieties and offers suggestions for which ones work best in each recipe. The entire book is nothing short of mouth-watering goodness for any apple lover. —selected by PamRecipes to try: 4 viewable recipes from "The Apple Lover’s Cookbook". Good Food to Share by Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan (Weldon Owen, 2011) Fans of Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy's TheKitchn.com, have anxiously awaited her first cookbook. Good Food To Share, a collection of recipes for entertaining with family and friends, will not disappoint. Festive ideas for everything from drinks to desserts--paired with simplicity of preparation, an appreciation for seasonal ingredients, and the ingenious use of bold flavors--places this book at the head of its class. Lush photos and plenty of pointers provide the requisite inspiration to get you started. —selected by Peggy Fallon Recipes to try: 2 viewable recipes from "Good Food to Share".
The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook: Celebrating Wine, Food, and Friends in the Napa Valley by Dolores Cakebread, Jack Cakebread (Ten Speed Press, 2011).Even if you've never visited Napa Valley, chances are you're familiar with the magnificent wines from Cakebread Cellars. If you've been to Napa, you probably joined the thousands of visitors from all around the world who stop in to visit this legendary presence on Highway 29. The Cakebread family's heartfelt love of wine and food is evident throughout this cookbook, much of which celebrates the winery's annual American Harvest weekend. Nestled between the recipes, Jack and Dolores Cakebread share stories of the local chefs, farmers, and food purveyors, as well as assorted bits of history linked to each of the recipes. Call it a love letter, a tour guide, a biography, and a cookbook all wrapped into one beautiful volume! —selected by PamRecipes to try: 2 viewable recipes from "The Cakebread Cellars American Harvest Cookbook".
The Extraordinary Cookbook: How to Make Meals Your Friends Will Never Forget by Stefan Gates (Kyle Books, 2011).Sometimes weird is good, and sometimes weird is just, well, weird. This book is a little weird, and its appeal really depends upon whether or not you consider that a good thing. I must admit I haven't seen Stefan Gates' TV show, but I'm imagining he's a British Alton Brown–just taking a guess... Whatever his shows are like, he's clearly inventive, likes to mix cooking and science and, well, perhaps is a bit weird! Above all else I'm pretty sure that with recipes like Flower Pot-Baked Bread and Lunch Cooked in the Dishwasher, the book's subtitle is right on the mark. (What guest could possibly forget these creations?) All said, however, it's a pretty dang interesting book. You'll find yourself reading through the entire volume just to see what Stefan will come up with next. I'm just not convinced you will actually cook from it–unless you, too, are drawn to the weird! —selected by PamRecipes to try: 2 viewable recipes from "The Extraordinary Cookbook".
Homemade: The ultimate DIY cookbook featuring over 200 from-scratch recipes by Yvette Van Boven (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011).Has the do-it-yourself bug bitten you? I know from personal experience that it starts off with making some simple items that happen to turn out great, and before you know it you're obsessed with the idea of trying to make more and more things… Homemade by Yvette Van Boven lets you delve deep into the make-more aspect with DIY items ranging from jam and preserves to bread and cheese and beyond. Homemade has a decidedly European flair that makes the recipe selections stand apart from the standard American DIY books of the past year. That flair, combined with detailed instructions and step-by-step photos for many of the dishes, makes this more than yet another ordinary DIY book; and one that many (like me) will embrace as a soothing antidote to the DIY bug. —selected by PamRecipes to try: 2 viewable recipes from "Home Made".
Disclosure: Review copies of books discussed in this post may have been provided to Project Foodie by publicists and/or publishers.
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