Cookbooks and Recipes http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104067615&ft=1&f=104067615 This year's collection of summer cookbooks features an exploration of the exotic by ferocious, passionate cooks who aren't afraid to reach into the deepest corners of the pantry. en Copyright 2013 NPR - For Personal Use Only NPR API RSS Generator 0.94 Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://media.npr.org/images/npr_news_123x20.gif Cookbooks and Recipes http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104067615&ft=1&f=104067615 The 10 Best Summer Cookbooks Of 2009 This year's crop of spring and summer cookbooks is a sprawling, eclectic collection, hard to summarize and harder to sort. In these books we find a world of thrilling arcana, seemingly custom tailored for a summer in which eating in looks to be the greatest adventure of all. Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103675257&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103675257&ft=1&f=104067615 This year's crop of spring and summer cookbooks is a sprawling, eclectic collection, hard to summarize and harder to sort. In these books we find a world of thrilling arcana, seemingly custom tailored for a summer in which eating in looks to be the greatest adventure of all.

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]]> Recipes: 'Cooking Know-How' <em>Cooking Know-How</em> is the complete process-engineering of 64 basic dishes, including risotto, roasted birds, frittata and stir-fry. Tue, 26 May 2009 13:52:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104391593&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104391593&ft=1&f=104067615 Cooking Know-How is the complete process-engineering of 64 basic dishes, including risotto, roasted birds, frittata and stir-fry.

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]]> Recipes: 'The Spice Kitchen' In her quirky, globe-trotting book <em>The Spice Kitchen</em> Michal Haines displays a range of culinary endeavor that would dazzle the most jaded spice merchant on the Silk Road. Tue, 26 May 2009 13:10:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104255363&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104255363&ft=1&f=104067615 In her quirky, globe-trotting book The Spice Kitchen Michal Haines displays a range of culinary endeavor that would dazzle the most jaded spice merchant on the Silk Road.

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]]> Recipes: 'Preserved' Even if you don't want to salt your own pork, smoke your own duck or preserve your own lemons, that's OK. <em>Preserved,</em> by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton, is filled with recipes that will work with dried, canned and preserved goods from the store too. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:58:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104254120&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104254120&ft=1&f=104067615 Even if you don't want to salt your own pork, smoke your own duck or preserve your own lemons, that's OK. Preserved, by Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton, is filled with recipes that will work with dried, canned and preserved goods from the store too.

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]]> Recipes: 'Tacos' In case you were wondering when would be the best time to get beyond the fast-food tacos you grew up with, that time is now. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:23:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104251121&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104251121&ft=1&f=104067615 In case you were wondering when would be the best time to get beyond the fast-food tacos you grew up with, that time is now.

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]]> Recipes: 'Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned' In <em>Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned, </em>Elizabeth Karmel skips the usual macho seminar on flame-taming and gear, and instead trains her laser-like focus on the real prize: where the flavor comes from. Tue, 26 May 2009 12:03:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104249858&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104249858&ft=1&f=104067615 In Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned, Elizabeth Karmel skips the usual macho seminar on flame-taming and gear, and instead trains her laser-like focus on the real prize: where the flavor comes from.

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]]> Recipes: 'The Modern Vegetarian' There's something sweetly avant-garde about the recipes in Maria Elia's <em>The Modern Vegetarian,</em> a book that loves its grains and vegetables for their own sake, not for their ability to masquerade as meat or camouflage its absence. Tue, 26 May 2009 11:49:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104248571&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104248571&ft=1&f=104067615 There's something sweetly avant-garde about the recipes in Maria Elia's The Modern Vegetarian, a book that loves its grains and vegetables for their own sake, not for their ability to masquerade as meat or camouflage its absence.

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]]> Recipes: 'Vefa's Kitchen' So many of the elements of the Greek kitchen are well known, yet for one reason or another they don't add up to something we turn to night after night. Maybe that's because there hasn't been a basic, here's-how-we-do-it Greek Joy of Cooking — until now. Tue, 26 May 2009 11:09:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104244211&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104244211&ft=1&f=104067615 So many of the elements of the Greek kitchen are well known, yet for one reason or another they don't add up to something we turn to night after night. Maybe that's because there hasn't been a basic, here's-how-we-do-it Greek Joy of Cooking — until now.

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]]> Recipes: 'Real Cajun' You may not have realized before now that you need to know how to make sausage, but that only because you haven't yet succumbed to the pork-worshiping, boudinacious, jambalayicious world of <em>Real Cajun.</em> Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104252818&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104252818&ft=1&f=104067615 You may not have realized before now that you need to know how to make sausage, but that only because you haven't yet succumbed to the pork-worshiping, boudinacious, jambalayicious world of Real Cajun.

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]]> Recipes: 'Flavors Of Asia' <em>The Flavors of Asia</em> is an emancipation from eating out, filled with recipes for dishes many of us are accustomed to letting other people make for us: Singapore Stir-Fried Noodles, Vietnamese spring rolls, samosas. Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104109601&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104109601&ft=1&f=104067615 The Flavors of Asia is an emancipation from eating out, filled with recipes for dishes many of us are accustomed to letting other people make for us: Singapore Stir-Fried Noodles, Vietnamese spring rolls, samosas.

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]]> Recipes: 'Memorable Recipes to Share with Family and Friends' Renee Behnke's emphasis on summer produce make it a good source to turn to after one of those trips to the farmer's market where you accidentally got one of everything and don't know what to do with it (Answer: Ratatouille with Fresh Rosemary.) Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104256507&ft=1&f=104067615 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104256507&ft=1&f=104067615 Renee Behnke's emphasis on summer produce make it a good source to turn to after one of those trips to the farmer's market where you accidentally got one of everything and don't know what to do with it (Answer: Ratatouille with Fresh Rosemary.)

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