Post by Catbatty on Feb 3, 2024 4:27:10 GMT -5
I have recently noticed a few cookbooks that just FEEL SPECIAL to me. IF I HAD to get rid of all my food related publications, I would keep certain ones.
This is one of them… Albertina’s Exceptional Recipes (cookbook) from Albertina’s Restaurant, Portland, Oregon (closed 2020), ISBN: 0-9654691-0-7, published 1996 and again in 1997. Another is: Any of Margaret Fox’s cookbooks, from her restaurant (now closed) in Mendocino, California. (Remember the town where Alfred Hitchcock’s movie, The Birds, was set? That’s little Mendo hanging out over the cliffs of the Pacific ocean.) Her first book (Cafe Beaujolais) took my heart away. I eventually had to own them all. Well, I’m thinking of posting recipes from one or both of those books and cooking as many of them as I (and DH) can. It would be fun for me. I would be REVIEWING and hopefully wouldn’t get in trouble with copyrights. Still thinking on it. Maybe others would want to do the same? (Yes, both of my fav cookbooks are closed RESTAURANT cookbooks. I do love eatery cookbooks! I even used to own/run an online restaurant/bakery, etc., recipe sharing group called “Recipe Cafe.” It’s been years. I still have all the recipes we gathered.) I’ve seen other groups and websites tackle ONE cookbook together…but it’s never done my kind of cookbook. I’m not thinking of us doing that. Or might that interest anyone here? I wouldn’t mind putting up some recipes from mine and then seeing folks make something good from any? It’s a thought. My two cookbooks here are fairly practical and not intensely gourmet, I think. Just simple cookbooks with heavily tried and true recipes from what I can tell. (One tomato soup from Cafe Beaujolais has been RAVED about in TNT recipe group I belonged to years ago. I still haven’t made that soup!) Catbatty
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