Getting the Right Cookbook for the Right Person: Some Ideas for Holiday Gift Giving.
Most cookbooks listed here I've reviewed in 1998, a few are from 1997 reviews.
| For omnivores, carnivores, herbivores: basically anyone who likes high-taste, low-food-chain eating: |
 Vegetarian
Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison......If my house were
on fire and I had to rescue only one vegetarian cookbook (an admittedly
unlikely scenario), this would be it.The
Essential Vegetarian by Diana Shaw.....a nice hand-holding
cookbook especially for one who is just discovering vegetables.Mollie
Katzen's Vegetable Heaven by Mollie Katzen....Her trademark
sparkling recipes, text, and artwork. Tomato
Blessings and Radish Teachings by Robert Espe Brown.....Sometimes
it's so nice to have a Zen guy in the kitchen with you to help make
dinner, make you laugh, and put things in cosmic perspective. |
| For any friends or relatives whose cars would sport bumper stickers declaring "I'd rather be in Tuscany"....except these are not generally bumper-sticker people: |
| RogersGray
Italian Country Cooking by Ruth Rogers and Ruth Gray Red,
White, and Greens by Faith Willinger |
| For multi-tasking, mentally melting down moms and dads who know all too well why 5 pm is called the arsenic hour: |
| Desperation
Dinners! by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross |
| For the rare person who not only owns an ice cream maker, but actually uses it: |
| Sorbets
and Ice Creams by Lou Siebert Pappas |
| For anyone who has ever pointed out a ten-dollar jar of pickled artichokes in Dean and Deluca and remarked, "I could make that.": |
| The
Glass Pantry by Georgeanne Brennan |
| For food lovers who cringe at the term "foodie"; who prefer to think of "fusion" as a scientific term rather than a cooking style; and who wouldn't be caught dead saying, "faabulous". |
| The
Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook by Christopher Kimball |
| For those who want a historically vast, spiritually moving, and culturally fascinating cookbook. The recipes are really good, too: |
| The
Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden |
| For anyone who ever wonders what to make for dinner when there's nothing in the house to eat (and doesn't want to order pizza): |
| What
to Cook When You Think There's Nothing in the House to Eat by
Arthur Schwartz |
| For all lovers of the love apple: |
| You
Say Tomato by Joanne Weir |
| For those who thrill to the thought of cheese balls, Boston Creme Pie, and Jell-0 Salad molds and other blasts from the past: |
| Better
Homes and Gardens 75 Years of All-Time Favorites |
| For anyone with a taste for exciting, diverse food....but doesn't have a lot of time to make it: |
| Recipes
1-2-3 Menus Cookbook by Rozanne GoldRecipes
1-2-3 Cookbook by Rozanne Gold |
| For connoisseurs of quirk who don't already own this best seller: |
| Play
with Your Food by Joost Elffers* |
| For those who would rather spend a morning in Paris roaming the food market on rue Mouffetard than taking a head-phone tour through the Louvre. |
| Food
Markets of the World by Nelli Sheffer and Mimi Sheraton |
| For those who wish they could have roamed the food market on rue Mouffetarde in the 1860's: |
| The
Belly of Paris by Emile Zola* |
| *not actually a cookbook |
