London Calling

The London Cookbook takes you on a wonderful culinary journey and would make a lovely gift for any cook.  While the recipes featured hail from noted restaurants and noted chefs, the recipes themselves are easy enough for the home chef.  The photographs will whet your appetite.  If you're homesick or nostalgic for London, this cookbook will cure your blues and transport you across the pond.  And if you've never been to London, you'll want to go soon, and book your reservations to many of these fine restaurants.

I received this book from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review.

Lucky Peach Vegges Out

Power Vegetables goes where few vegetables have gone before...

Indeed, this cookbook is filled with many bold flavors and fun presentations.  Even better, most of the recipes are easy.   I can't wait to sample the kung pao celeries and braised daikon with mustard seed. The easy all-purpose brine promises to be idiot-proof, and the stack of golden latkes will have you yearning for your sour cream and applesauce. This book is great for anyone who thinks vegetables are boring, and for anyone who wants eat more vegetables.

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C'est Magnifique!

I admit it, I'm a Francophile.  I've always been, visited France more than any other country, and if I could afford to move to France and live there for awhile, I would.   Mimi Thorisson's book is the next bet thing.  She showcases "meals and moments from a village in the vineyards" so you can create and taste the dream in your own kitchen.   Some of the recipes are simple like roast bone marrow with herbs where the trick is getting good marrow bones.  Others are more involved time and prep-wise like the old-fashioned summer veal roast and the cassoulet.  All photos are worth a thousand drools each.  If you win the lottery and are headed to France, take me with you and we'll cook our way through this wonderful book.

I received this cookbook in exchange for my honest review at Blogging for Books.