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Title: Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook, The by Christopher Kimball ISBN: 0-316-49699-5 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 02 November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (22 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: only buy this book for the recipes, not the stories...
Comment: This cookbook really... bugged me. First of all, a lot of the recipes are repeats from "The Best Recipe." For example, the intro to the apple pie recipe is copied practically verbatim from the one in Best Recipe, except that Kimball substitutes "I" for "we", as if it was only himself, on his Vermont farm, who tested all those apples and techniques (maybe it was, but, please, get your story straight from one cookbook or the other!). Secondly, I was expecting more of a warm, fuzzy feeling when reading this book about an old "yellow farmhouse". Instead, I got passages about hunting, the local store which has an eating area in the back with magazines about nude girls on motorcycles and bumper stickers that read "my kid beat up your honors student", field hands, a dark and dingy sounding farmhouse, and narrative about how gym-going "city people" are really so much weaker than real dyed-in-the-wool Vermont country hicks. The recipes may be good, but the commentary is not what I expected at all. Kimball seems completely pre-occupied (maybe he has a complex?) about real Vermonters -- he cooks up meals for all the local farmhands on his weekends in Vermont and can't say enough good things about everything and anything they do. Well, the way Kimball describes them, they all sound like rednecks to me...
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Dependable
Comment: A NYC Chef, I took this book with me when going down south to cook for 2 older southern gentlemen because I was informed under no uncertain terms that I would have to cook old-fashioned American country food. This book turned out to be very dependable. I am intrigued by the less than satisfactory reviews of the book. He definitely backtracks on some of his recipes in the Cook's Bible (he tells you where) but he also talks about how he improved the recipe here. To be sure, I have modifications in mind for my own taste on several of the recipes, and find the "master recipe" concept for things like mashed potatoes amusing, but this book's results are very enjoyable home-style cooking. One major feature for me was that I've been used to the organic produce and variety one finds in NY, but there, that wasn't available. These recipes came through because they are written for what one can find in a grocery store anywhere in the country.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very good intro book
Comment: The 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.
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Title: Cook's Bible, The by Christopher Kimball ISBN: 0316493716 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Dessert Bible, The by Christopher Kimball ISBN: 0316496987 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour ISBN: 0881505811 Publisher: Countryman Pr Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Kitchen Detective: A Culinary Sleuth Solves Common Cooking Mysteries With 150 Foolproof Recipes by Christopher Kimball ISBN: 0936184701 Publisher: America's Test Kitchen Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: American Classics (The Best Recipe Series) by Cook's Illustrated Magazine ISBN: 0936184558 Publisher: Cook's Illustrated Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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