Thread: Ok, big question...How do you cook? :)

I got my Mom's original MOFC and my WTC both signed by Julia back in '90. Both are very good sources, you'll be lucky to have them! ;)

Just to brag a little bit. We have that book personally inscribed to us and signed by her. I LOVE that!!!

Well Mr Dwyer, I just ordered all the books you mentioned along with a Julia Childs book and I'm bidding on The Joy of Cooking 1975 on ebay. I figure thats old enough to not be the new and improved version but either way, it's all new to me. :) Thanks for all the help and suggestions. Kathy

It's why I prefer the public channel cooking shows over the Food Channel, entertainment though it is. I figure if Julia Child can make mistakes, then I'm allowed to. : )

I think another way to gain insight and wisdom is to read some books ABOUT food and cooking, a category into which some of the better cookbooks also fall. I read Bill Bryson's "Heat" and Tony Bourdain's "Les Halles Cookbook" at more or less the same time; both went out of their way to delineate the differences between restaurant and home cooking, and yet both had excellent advice for home cooks...

Whoops! I see I forgot to provide the link to the COTM archive. http://www.chow.com/cookbook_of_the_m... ~TDQ

Oh ya PBS is where it's at for food. My current favorite is Ming Tsai although I usually always find a way to mess up asian food I should stick with what I know lol. I'm always pumped whenever I can catch some Julia re-runs.

Enjoy. You've got a lot of wonderful reading ahead of you. I hope these books provide you with as many delicious meals as they have me.

I love both books, but when my daughter moved out, I bought her Bittman's "How to Cook Everything." She loves it, still uses it often, and has become a weekly farmer's market shopper, making everything she eats from scratch. Since then, I've bought her other books, by Alice Waters, Julia Childs, but she's never stopped loving to cook from Bittman. In addition, I really recommend The Barefoot Contessa on...

Absolutely. There is no substitute for just DOING it. To add to Mr. Owen's words of wisdom, if I may, I think mindful eating is a good step to becoming a more independent cook. When you taste something really delicious, take a second to ask, "What makes that so good?" If you can't pinpoint something, ask the chef. I remember being a young teenager and eating the most delicious black bean and chicken quesadillas at...