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hallali · 09-09-2009, 01:07 PM

I love cookbooks and collect them. Right now I have about 500 in German and English.

So my question for those who share my hobby (or not

): What is your favourite cookbook and why?

My favourite cookbook is Marcella Hazan´s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
(Die klassische italienische Küche).

It has no pictures (a lot of the older american cookbooks don´t have), but if you want to buy just one italian cookbook it HAS to be this one. Everything I did was great and tasted like being in Italy. Marcella has quite a mandatory tone in her very exact recipes but just trust her. She just wants the things to come out as if she would do it herself. OK some things need time to prepare (I never managed to do the Canelloni in less than 4 hours

) but the outcome - just yummy! This is definetly the top choice of my collection so far.

So what is yours?

09-09-2009, 01:07 PM	#1
hallali Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 468 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Köln, Germany Device: Es ist das PB 302, ich schiele aber schon auf das 360	Your favourite cookbook? I love cookbooks and collect them. Right now I have about 500 in German and English. So my question for those who share my hobby (or not): What is your favourite cookbook and why? My favourite cookbook is Marcella Hazan´s Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Die klassische italienische Küche). It has no pictures (a lot of the older american cookbooks don´t have), but if you want to buy just one italian cookbook it HAS to be this one. Everything I did was great and tasted like being in Italy. Marcella has quite a mandatory tone in her very exact recipes but just trust her. She just wants the things to come out as if she would do it herself. OK some things need time to prepare (I never managed to do the Canelloni in less than 4 hours ) but the outcome - just yummy! This is definetly the top choice of my collection so far. So what is yours?