I love cookbooks. I’ve loved them for years. Love the photos, love the recipes. I love dreaming of things I’d like to make but don’t have the confidence, the time or sometimes, I admit it, the patience. In what seems like a lifetime ago, I worked for what was then the nation’s #1 mall bookstore chain in their corporate marketing department. One of the categories I worked on was Cooking, and I got a ton of great cookbooks from the Buyer of that category. Over the years, the cookbooks have dwindled down due to space, moves and lack of use. But my love for them never has dwindled.
I was sent a free copy of a new gluten free cookbook recently to review. Gluten-Free Italian, by Jacqueline Mallorca is a great book. The sub-title of “Over 150 Irresistible Recipes without Wheat – from Crostini to Tiramisu” defines it all. Jacqueline knows Italian cooking, and it shows in her recipes. With beautiful photos and background info on the recipes, this cookbook is a keeper, and sure to get some good use.
I recently posted a review on another great cookbook, and I just want to remind my readers about that book. Peter and Kelli Bronski recently published Artisinal Gluten Free Cooking. Their cookbook already has the mark of a good cookbook in my standards – it’s got food all over it. To me, if you are cooking, and using a cookbook or recipe, there is no reason to keep it pristine. Show it’s getting the love and attention the recipe deserves. Some tomato sauce splatters here. Maybe some oil stains there. You know what I am talking about.
Anyhow, both cookbooks are great additions to any gf households, and would make excellent gifts for the upcoming Holiday season.
GFS
Oooooooh, I do love a cookbook with good pictures! I’m adding both of these to my Christmas wish list!
My husband brought me gluten-free Italian home on friday, I’ve been looking through it all weekend trying to decide what to make first.