OFM's Vintage Cookbooks

[suffolk]

Noted!

[PatsyMFagan]

[Badger's mate]

[Pepper Pig]

Claudia Roden. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... stern-food

[suffolk]

I bought this when it first came out in paperback in 1989 - it's been my bible for Middle Eastern recipes ever since - superb

[Ratatouille]

Ditto

[StokeySue]

[Pepper Pig]

Lindsey Bareham on Good Things by Jane Grigson.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... ood-things

I love Grigson's writing and I think I have most of her books.

[StokeySue]

Synergy
Like Ms Bareham I found my original paperback copy of Good Things yesterday, and thought I must get a new one as a couple of pages are missing

[Pepper Pig]

This is a new one on me. Yan Kit's Classic Chinese Cookbook.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... sia-dunlop

[StokeySue]

I've heard of Yan Kit So, but never used the book, she does seem to be a favourite with food writers
Probably won't be making a recipe that requires 20 large scallops, don't want a new mortgage

[miss mouse]

Never heard of her. Sorry. The recipes look impossibly long, even those not requiring 20 scallops.

[Pepper Pig]

Nigella on Simon Hopkinson's Roast Chicken and Other Stories.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... er-stories

One of my faves. I love the way he writes.

[Ratatouille]

One of my favourites too as well as The Prawn Cocktail Years.

[suffolk]

Simon Hopkinson I love 'Roast Chicken' ... one of the favourites on my bookshelves.

[StokeySue]

Not a book I know, but another recipe requiring 20 scallops!

[suffolk]

But given that I can no longer eat oysters, 10 scallops between the two of us is but a small indulgence

[Pepper Pig]

Rick Stein’s English Seafood Cookery.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/m ... od-cookery

[StokeySue]

Oddly that’s one I don’t have

Good article though, and I learned one of those things that’s obvious when someone tells you - if you are going to serve mussels shelled, there’s absolutely no point in removing the beards before opening. <doh>

Went to Nathan Outlaw’s London restaurant last year. Very good

[Ratatouille]

It has been one of my favourites for many years.

[earthmaiden]

That and Cordon Bleu Fish are the only fish cookery books I have ever owned. Both have been well used.

[Pepper Pig]

Not quite the same but related. I came across this on Twitter this morning.

https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/let ... food-hero/

[StokeySue]

Interesting. I probably ought to get the MargaretCosta book, I suspect I make some of her recipes as my mother was a devotee of her Sunday Times column and I still have the handwritten recipes I brought from home, most of which are probably hers.

I have had the burnt cheesecake in Bilbao, surprisingly simple

[Pepper Pig]

It's a bit intermittent this series!

Leaves from The Walnut Tree by Ann and Franco Taruschio.

[scullion]

sad to say i have none of - although maybe i have the elizabeth david one - i know i have a couple of hers.

[Badger's mate]

I have got various books by some of the authors, but the only book on the list in this house is the Madhur Jaffrey one. I did consider getting the Rick Stein book after Floyd on Fish but it didn't happen.

[StokeySue]

I have the Jane Grigson, the Elizabeth David, and the Claudia Roden

I don’t have that Madhur Jaffrey book, but I have her first BBC book which repeats a lot of the recipes

[KC2]

I have the Jane Grigson, the Cluadia Roden and the Margaret Costa. Which reminds me, I should have a fresh look at the Costa - it's been ages!

[scullion]

i have just treated myself to the claudia roden and margaret costa books from abe - both very good copies, in hardback, for £9.19 including postage i don't think that will break the bank.
i have a couple of madhur jaffrey's - and quite a few other indian/eastern cookbooks so maybe i'll wait for another time for that one.

[miss mouse]

[Gruney]

I have a copy of Simon Hopkinson's boook , and I would have said precisely this, if Nigella Lawson had not said it first:-

" there’s not a recipe here I don’t want to eat immediately."

I keep it apart from my other books, it's by my chair - handy for a quick ten minute browse, when I'm in need of being in that sort of mood. As recently as last Sunday, I made his "poulet sauté au vinaigre".

[suffolk]

It’s a favourite ‘read’ here too ... and it’s time I made that recipe again ... my palate’s a bit jaded at the moment and it’s just the thing to perk it up a bit
Thanks for the reminder Gruney