June 2013 archive

Cookbook 43: the food of spain: a journey for food lovers

This book is amazing, there is no other way to put it.  If you like Spanish food, or even simple to make, but incredibly delicious food, then I highly recommend the food of spain: a journey for food lovers.  Nothing in this book was wrong.  The recipes were all straightforward, there were no mistakes and …

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Cookbook 42: Margaret Fulton’s Book of Indian Cooking

So I dug out a book I bought in the early 1990s, before I’d moved out of home, and had actually never ever used before, Margaret Fulton’s Book of Indian Cooking.  It’s not that I didn’t like Indian, or that the ingredients were too hard to find, or too strange for my taste, it’s just …

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Cookbook 41: Cooking Class Cookbook

And may I present the Australian Women’s Weekly Cooking Class Cookbook.  I suspect that this cookbook was published before the AWW ensured their recipes were all triple tested, because there are some very odd instructions here, and some very weird page layout decisions.  Also, the photography dates from the late 70s early 80s, so the …

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