booooooooooooks.

[schmerica]

pearl_o: I add books to my to-read list at a much, much faster rate than I actually read books.

fox1013: /giggles
fox1013:What books?

pearl_o: ....dude, right now my to-read list is a word document over 1000 items long.
pearl_o: and i am adding a bunch of stuff i bookmarked on amazon last night.

fox1013:Erica? Darling? You are a freak.
fox1013:/smooches

pearl_o: /beams
pearl_o: I LIKE LISTS.
pearl_o: They are so organized!
pearl_o:And alphabetical!

Sort of the same topic but not really: who wants to recommend good cookbooks to me? Not for my to-read list, but for my crazy packrat COOKBOOKCOOKBOOKCOOKBOOK collecting. Right now, I use Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything and The Best Recipes in the World constantly; I love Nigella Lawson's How to Be a Domestic Goddess but was disappointed in How to Eat; I respect The Joy of Cooking but only ever really use it when I'm making a bazillion cookies at Christmastime. Specificity of region, technique, or ingredients is fine, as long as it's a good book. What do you guys like?

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[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

One of my favourites is the Rebar cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0968862306/sr=8-1/qid=1145137329/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1512219-7056052?%5Fencoding=UTF8), from an awesome vegetarian restaurant in Victoria.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I've never heard of that one -- it looks really interesting.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

It's got some really good soup recipes--greek red lentil with feta, chunky winter vegetable, and carrot lemongrass with coconut milk. I also really like the tofu eggplant skewers, and the green rice (regular basmati or jasmine cooked in pureed spinach, parsley, cilantro, and jalapenos). And the cornbread with chipoltes added, and... hmm, I think I'm hungry now. *g*