Search no more through your dust-ridden bookshelf for that one cookbook your mom gave you when you left for college. Forget how to make salad dressing? Cook's Illustrated, Web site companion to the popular magazine, is the resource for all cooks, struggling or experienced. The database for those searches is something you'd pay for (though compare the cost of a few cookbooks to this; not a plug, just my honest opinion).There are a few free resources available to random visitors, however, including a bulletin board, free articles and recipes, and extra content from the magazine. A variety of reviews will help identify the cheese grater that can take the pressure, become a spotter of the better butter, or taste a little of New Orleans in a really good key lime pie.
(Given its title, let's see this one get blocked by over-conscious content filters...it's not a new phrase, just appropriate.)
Isn't the internet great for food? It's such a resource - random searches, BBC and Oprah have yielded such helpful results to me in the past. It's like having my mother on the other end of the phone again when I get stuck!
ReplyDeleteMy bible is still my junior cert home economics book for the simple things. There was a Jamie Oliver book going around online about a year ago aswell which I printed up for myself and my mum. Apart from that, it's BBC good food all the way.
ReplyDeleteI must confess that cooking is one those things that is totally beyond me. Not only am I a crap cook but I just don't understand the world of cookery around me. I don't have the pateince to go near a cook book or cookery programme yet it's absolutely massive, trillions of cook books and airtime. Another thing I can never understand is how there or so many different combinations of food to fill the trillions of books, airtime, passtime. Is it not just all the same: chicken, meat; vegetables, tomato or cream based sauce.
ReplyDeleteI have loads of food porn books.....some of them I have never cooked from, but I love the pictures or stories about the recipies.
ReplyDeleteI buy Good Food every week and it is great, also has an online database where you can access the recipies.
But there is something about a book, holding it in you hands, snuggled down in bed!
I dont do cooking although would love to, my cooking skills go to making shit hot pancakes, macaroni cheese, and tagiatelli with a pesto and creamy chesse sauce with bacon, mmmmm
ReplyDeleteOther then those 3 main dishes I poison people. I even poisoned my good lady with a hamburger once, doh!
But I have to say Atreus this site is a great recommendation and maybe just maybe I will get a 4th thing to cook.