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Books : The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook |
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Books : The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973 EAN: 9780316496995 ISBN: 0316496995 Label: Little, Brown and Company Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: November 02, 1998 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Sales Rank: 380560 Studio: Little, Brown and Company Editorial Review: Related Items:
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 Rating:  - One of the best cookbooks on the marketMy grandmother lived in the Appalachian Mountains, and I would go to her home to visit her two or three times a year. In the summer, almost everything we ate came from her vegetable garden and her chicken coop. Milk, butter, flour, meal, oil, and red meat were almost all she purchased at the tiny grocery in town. The food she cooked was some of the best food I have ever eaten. I spent endless hours of my youth in the kitchen with her, but because she measured in her hands, I have been unable to re-create many of her recipes. Christoper Kimball, however, has in The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook. These recipes are genuine, "down home" recipes. Not only that, but I truly appreciate the honesty he has used when discussing the recipes, such as informing the reader that good creamed corn can't be made from "old, store-bought corn." The corn "has to be fresh, juicy, and delicate." That's right. If you are interested in learning how to cook genuine, down-home, American good, this is the cookbook for you. I've owned it for eight or nine years now, and the pages are stained with food spatterings. I read cookbooks, like other people read novels, and I purchase many of them. Unfortunately, those purchases often end up in the garbage or the used bookstore because the recipes in them are a disaster, while The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook remains open, stained, and waiting on my cookbook stand to be referred to time and time again. Rating:  - I'm so disapointedI have tried two recipes so far and they were both flops! I tried the baking powder biscuits and the buttermilk pancakes (with the whole milk variation). I really like Kimball and love America's Test Kitchen but I do not like this book. Rating: - Very good intro bookThe Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook is aimed for those with second houses OR startup kitchens. It is complete with what utensils and pots to buy, with reviews right out of the Cooks Illustrated Magagine. It gives lots of information on the science of cooking too. There are not allot of recipes in here but this is a basic book that lets you understand cooking & what to buy to get started. If you get this with the Joy and you'll be okay. The Cook's bible is the upscale version of the Farmhouse, the pots and kitchen equipment are more top-end; Farmhouse is how to make a kitchen on a budget -- your call. Rating: - Entirely dependable and entirely wonderfulThere is great comfort for any cook who finds a cookbook author he or she likes: you know what to expect, you trust their judgement and their recipes, you like their voice. That's the case with Christopher Kimball and me. Christopher Kimball founded and still edits COOK'S ILLUSTRATED magazine. I always learn something from COOK'S. Its laconic, thorough approach is Chris incarnate, and this unfussy spirit is echoed in "The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook" as well. With its yellow-checked cover, an old-fashioned typeface (Poor Richard, perhaps?), and illustrations reminiscent of woodblock prints by Rockwell Kent or Barry Moser, this is a conscious visual effort to call up the gentle past. The recipes, however, are anything but nostalgic. Chris flatly debunks assumption after assumption about recipes we thought we knew. He is a demon tester, and has charted wonderful new paths to the same old dishes, making them bright and newly delicious in our mouths. Several "Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook" recipes have become family favorites in my home (especially the scalloped potatoes, which get requested on practically a weekly basis). This book is a stroke of good fortune for any home cook.
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