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If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat. She writes very romantically about foods and food flavors, and how those 4 components are really all you need to make a great dish. The recipes are very loose and not precise, which I love – as a hobby cook, I am regularly tweaking recipes as I find them to suit my family's tastes. Enjoy!
Jess, I highly recommend Hugh Acheson's The Broad Fork and Vivian Howard's Deep Run Roots, if you don't have them. They've challenged me so much this past year, and now I don't know what I'd do without them. (I just made Howard's tomato pie yesterday for my mother. She swears it's the best in the world.)
I highly recommend “Dishing Up The Dirt” by Andrea Bemis and The Homestead Kitchen by Eve Kilcher
Animal, Vegetable, miracle is what got me started wanting to garden, and ultimately led me to finding y'all
I've never actually owned a cookbook… I watched countless hours of Food Network growing up, so I think I learned a fair bit from there. But I mostly just wing it and have found a few staple meals that I enjoy. Now I'm thinking that I may benefit from bringing a cook book in to my life. Thanks for sharing!
I read my cookbooks like they are novels.
Thanks for these tips, I didn't know any of these books! (probably because I live on another continent) I wrote down these titles and will definitely be on the lookout for them!
I very highly recommend Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls 'Veg'. That is my go-to book for vegetable inspiration. All vegetarian recipes with lovely flavours and textures. The descriptions are always spot on to help you understand how to prepare the recipe.
For those of you in the Netherlands – find yourself a Vegetable edition of the Blue Band ring binder cookbooks in a flea market or thrift store; it talks about many of the veggies that were traditionally grown and have been eaten a lot by Dutchies and shares basic and more elaborate (all very tasty!) ways of preparing them. That book, for example, contains simple instructions to prepare spinach 'à la crème' from the spinach you grew yourself or to make the rhubarb compote that granny used to serve. Also for those in the Netherlands: 'Het Nieuwe Kookbook' can easily be found second hand and is great for anyone but it's so full of all the basics for preparing any kind of meat, broth, vegetable, desert, or (alcoholic) beverage that it shouldn't be missed for those of you interested in a homesteading kind of lifestyle!
Looking forward to this series!!
I love cookbooks as well. I used to collect them and when I moved and couldn't take care of myself like I used to I gave my cookbooks to my daughter and grandkids!
Jess! This is a great video and an update before the holidays on some must buy books would be much appreciated!
Half Baked Harvest, for me, is the most inspirational resource that I have ever come across. Every recipe excites me. She has 2 cookbooks and a blog and she had made me fall in love with cooking real food.
I had my first Brussel sprouts because one of her recipes and now it’s my favorite vegetable. I also brought that same life-changing dish to Thanksgiving and converted several family members to be Brussel sprout lovers.
I learned how to make my own pasta sauce for a stuffed shell recipe from one of her books & learned how to make truly delicious vegetarian tacos.
I can’t wait to check out the books you mentioned! I love finding new inspiration!
Have you tried The Farm by Ian Knuaer?
I have a cookbook addiction and love to cook from scratch. 🙂
I love the kind of cookbooks you can just sit down and read. Susan Branch has some of my favorites and they full of her artwork and stories. I also have a soft spot for the Campbell's cookbook because it's one my grandma used. I have her copy and my mom gave me hers too. The only cookbooks I've ever really used for cooking have been for baking. I used to bake a lot and had favorites for cookies, brownies and one that was wonderful for pies and cobblers.
Have you looked at The Tassajara Cookbook? It communicates an appreciation of vegetables and working with them in very basic ways. From gardeners.
I LOVE cookbooks, I have a ridiculous amount of them, it was over 120 the last time I counted them up. I've everything from old Mrs Beeton style Household management books from the 1930's and 1940's which were my Grandmothers through to cutting edge cookbooks such as Yottam Otelenghi, so this video is like catnip to me, I've already put them in my amazon wishlist and I've bought the Handmade Gatherings one. I love Nigel Slater's books as well, I already have a couple, his tv series are very like his writing, honey to the ears.
One of my favourite authors though is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. He's one of the main proponents of growing your own food, foraging, great animal husbandry, seasonality and generally living a smallholder lifestyle (what we call Homesteading in the UK). He's been very much an influence to me over the years and I've made alot of great friends through the love of his TV programs and his books. So any of his books would be my recommendations, especially the River Cottage Cookbook and the two veg based cookbooks – River Cottage Veg Everyday and River Cottage Much More Veg, the second being completely plantbased although he himself isn't. The mission of the books is to let the veggies shine. He also has a fruit based cookbook which is really fun.
Two of my other favourite Vegetarian cookbooks are one of Deborah Madisons – The Savoury Way and Vegetarian Planet by Didi Emmons. I also like single produce books such as Lindsey Bareham's The Big Red Book of Tomatoes and What Will I Do with All Those Courgettes? by Elaine Borish.
I refer to Ottolenghi's 'Jerusalem' allll the time. I made so many batches of smoky Mutabal with my eggplants last summer! Everything I've made from this cookbook has been insanely delicious
I love a good cook book. Ones with stories behind the recipes are my favourite. I've quite a few of Nigel Slaters books and would highly recommend any of them.
I absolutely love this topic! I collect cookbooks and really try to use them. I always wonder what cookbooks are in other people's kitchen being used and loved, especially other people growing and raising their own food. Have you ever read Ian Knauer's The Farm cookbook?
Jamie Oliver’s “Save with Jamie” has TONS of great veggie recipes. He also shows how to make one large meat based meal (like a Sunday roast) and use the leftover small amount of meats through the week. He shows how to use extra herbs, how to make vinegar with leftover bits of wine, etc. A really great cookbook that’s super inspiring and easy to read cover to cover!
Absolutely loved this vlog! Thank you for sharing.
I found this video and she mentioned that she would be doing more videos about books, does anyone know if she has?
Thank you, my boyfriend LOVES cooking and I've been looking for cookbooks to get him for christmas. I want to have a little homestead so I'm hoping these books will help win him over in favor for fresh ingredients 🙂
I also LOVE cookbooks in this format. As a gardener, I get "Stuck" and need inspiration at times so keep recommending good ones. Thanks.
Hi – just stumbled into this video. I have a feeling you'd really like The Victory Garden Cookbook. Published many years ago now and maybe not a fancy as some of the more modern cookbooks, but a very strong resource for seasonal produce including gardening information and multiple ways to use a given item or family of items (like winter squash). Based on the PBS TV series of the same name – I wish they'd re-boot that one!
Did you ever do a follow up on this?