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Eating By Yourself Can Be Cool

Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One by Anita Lo

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I would really like to meet Anita Lo some day. I’ve seen her on a few competition cooking shows, but this is the first cookbook of hers I’ve gone and picked up. Solo: A Modern Cookbook for a Party of One is pretty unique in that it not only focuses on small batch recipes as well as how to use as much of certain ingredients as possible (sometimes saving for another day or recipe), but also is very direct about eating by oneself. I’ve seen off and on in friends’ Goodreads lists this anthology of essays about how eating alone […]

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3/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:18 |

The cookbook I never knew I always wanted, mostly

Smith & Deli-Cious: Food from Our Deli (that Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse

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This is a thing I didn’t know I had been waiting for: a vegan cookbook that has no shame in noting that one of the authors and apparently main recipe developer is not vegan! According to the intro, which also does the standard how to stock a vegan pantry to use this book thing, both Mo Wyse and Shannon Martinez (who is the still not vegan- you are my peoples!- but likes the food and the challenge of adapting) were feeling limited by their single location restaurant (I think the basis of their first cookbook), and thus they expanded to […]

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1/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

If Your Nerdiest English Professor Wrote A Cookbook

MLA Members Cook by Modern Language Association

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There are two ways to think about this: what’s the nerdiest thing you can think of OR what’s the most in-jokey vanity project you can think of? Either way, the answer is MLA Members Cook!  This is a cookbook supposedly created by collecting recipes from members of the MLA; yes that MLA, as in the formatting and citation style your English teachers and professors made you use. I said ‘supposedly’ created  because based on what this supposed book is presented as, a cookbook by members of one of the largest humanities academic organizations in the US, I would think that […]

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1/5/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

I want to own this book

Cravings by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman

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I am not even sure I follow Chrissy Teigen on Twitter, but everything I have read indicates she is bright, witty and compassionate. Plus, I have heard a lot of positive buzz about all the food she makes, and I was in the mood for some new comfort food recipes. Cravings it was to be for this particular bingo square. So, thank you interlibrary loan for bringing me this delightful book! My spouse is allergic to poultry, so we don’t generally eat it at home. Consequently, I don’t have a variety of basic chicken recipes in my repertoire but we […]

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10/7/2018 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

Bringing a community back together

Together: Our Community Cookbook by The Hubb Community Kitchen

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On the 14th of June 2017 Grenfell Tower burned and a community lost 72 people and their home. The recovery process is still ongoing and the building is a scar and a reminder of how cutting costs and ignoring residents can come with a very high price. But Grenfell is a community and they have pulled together in the aftermath of these events to rebuild their lives. And one of the ways they have come together as a community is through cooking – the Al-Manaar mosque opened their kitchen and their hearts to the local people and provided a place […]

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9/28/2018 's CBR10 Review No:22 |

Dropping the Hammer

Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking: Authentic Dishes for the Home Cook by Maangchi

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**I want to add a quick update because this is cracking me up. Ever since I posted this review, half of the ads I see on websites are in Korean. Apparently just taking the time to look up the correct names of food is enough to convince the bots you’re bilingual!**   I’m a little unsure exactly how to review a cookbook, but I’m going to take a crack at it, because this is a good one.   I first found Maangchi via her YouTube channel , where she does step-by-step tutorials for Korean recipes. Her personality, and her outfits, […]

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9/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

Yes, she can be a little “extra.” But the food is delicious.

Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by Chrissy Teigen, Adeena Sussman, Aubrie Pick

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I think at this point, most of humanity is familiar with Chrissy Teigen. I follow her on Twitter and Instagram. I enjoy her comment round-ups on Comments by Celebrities. I love her obsession with Walter(Owen’s Grandp), who may or may not be real. Her kids are adorable and her mothering is relatable. Her husband seems cool and pretty normal for a massive celebrity. And like a lot of others, SOMETIMES I CANNOT GET THE RIDICULOUS HEADBAND OF THE DAY SONG OUT OF MY HEAD. Sure, she can be annoying with her no-holds-barred tweeting. But I find her amusing. I also […]

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9/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:33 |

This is a cookbook, but don’t read it for the recipes

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat

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So I’ve had Salt Fat Acid Heat on my TBR list for a while, and to be honest I’d kind of forgotten about it. Then I decided to go to the library and wander a bit because the library had just reopened after some county budget shenanigans nearly shut it down, threatening to defund it. So in addition to the manga section (I may have raided that too) I went browsing the cookbooks. In some ways this seems also like a misclassification for this book except it’s not. The first 200 pages have no recipes. Instead there is an in-depth […]

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8/25/2018 's CBR10 Review No:50 |


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