1 comments about Fresh Moroccan: Over 70 Healthy Recipes (Fresh...).

1. This book was a request from my 28 yr old daughter. I sent it to her for Valentine's Day, and she told me she tried a recipe just tonight and it was FABULOUS! She said it was a rather labor-intensive recipe and that she will probably modify it to make it quicker. This is what she usually does...but she was thrilled with the photos AND the recipes. A+++ and fast shipping.

4 comments about Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living.

1. This book is a culmination of recipes and stories from a unique annual family event "Real Men Cook", which focuses on the joys of fatherhood and cooking. This book is a wonderful addition to the library of anyone who finds joy in preparing meals for the ones they love.



2. Kofi and his wife, Yvette, are co-founders of Real Men Cook for Charity. They sponsor the Real Men Cookout, which is a Father's Day Charity event designed to celebrate black men as positive role models--everyday men, as well as celebrities. The charity started in Chicago and today, it is celebrated in over twelve cities. The cookbook is more than just recipes. There are stories/essays and poems to help celebrate the African American culture by and about many different people. The stories are just as good as the food. Enjoy!



3. A cook book, a history book a great gift! I love a man who cooks, and Real Men, do cook. My husband James cooks brunch each Sunday and my friend Terry Allen (p. 40) of Dallas, has found his place in cooking history with his heritages dishes preserved in the book. Real Men Cook highlights exceptional, amazing men cooking mouth watering dishes. Give your favorite guy a copy of this `real men' cookbook and you can support a great non-profit that celebrates ordinary American men being extraordinary in major cities; Dallas, Chicago, Los Angles, New Orleans, and all across the America.



4. This will help you try some meals that you love but can't find someone to make for you. Now you can stop calling your mama, sister, and bugging your wife to find out how to make great dishes. I know it is hard for us to read instructions but this is an easy read and fillingly rewarding.

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1 comments about NORTH AFRICAN COOKERY.

1. If you are looking for a cookbook that links the cultures of North Africa to the food then this is one for you.
   Up there with Fiona Dunlop and Claudia Roden this book has recipes that are generally easy to do with straightforward ingredients, although there are a few esoteric ones in there as well
   The tagines are very good and the recipe for Potato Salad with Cumin is a standout

5 comments about Moroccan Collection: Traditional Flavors from Northern Africa.

1. From fiery chillied fish to cooling, refreshing mint tea the Moroccan Collection by author Hilaire Walden is full of inspiration and atmosphere. The beautiful photos and book layout are evocotive of souk markets with their vibrant colours and aromas but at the same time give clear illustrations of what the food should look like when recreated at home.

   The recipes are well laid out with the majority accompanied by a photo. Ingredients are listed in bold type to one side of the page, the method is given in a clear numbered sequence, and best of all most recipes have a short explanation of the dish's history or some background to the ingredients. Ingredients used are those found easily in the west and explanations of traditional methods are given when they are no longer necessary to acheive the desired results today - for instance when using 'instant' couscous. Walden has also adapted the recipes, when necessary, to suit a western palate for example reducing the amount of oil used traditionally in some recipes. No Moroccan book worth its salt would be without lots of lamb and seafood (of many varieties) and chicken recipes, but there are also lots of grain and vegetable dishes and some luscious middle eastern sweets. Yummy!

   Sit back with this book and soak up the atmosphere - or - head straight for your (better equipped than the Moroccan home) kitchen and whip up a dinner of nutty couscous and rice salad accompanied by saffron chicken with apricots.




2. "The Morocco Collection" is authentic and accurate. The recipes are easy to follow and have ingredients most of us can find in the US. I really recommend "Moroccan Prawns with Spices". One of the couscous recipes works well with as does bread. The recipe for "Eggplants with Fruited Couscous" is also wonderful. If you're interested in Moroccan cuisine, you'll really appreciate this book.



3. The book itself is very well done. Nice pictures & well laid out. Not all of the recipes are to my liking. But others are quite tasty! Those are the ones that make this book purchase more that worthwhile...yum! yum!



4. I purchased this to help me use my new tagine. The photgraphy in this book makes you want to try the recipes. The recipes are flavorful. I don't eat meat, but there were plenty of seafood and vegetable recipes.



5. I am of Morrocan descent and was very much looking forward to learning how to cook authentic morrocan food. While the pictures are very pretty and ingrediants all look good none of the recipes I tried came out tasting quite right.

4 comments about What Mrs. Fisher Knows About So. Cooking (Cooking in America).

1. As soon as I learned of this book's existence, I ordered a copy for myself. I love cooking (and cookbooks), and I am also fascinated by the kind of first-person, anecdotal history that can be derived from the writings or records of ordinary people living long ago. This work--the first cookbook by an African-American, actually a former slave, originally published in 1881-- appeals to both of those interests, and, in addition, is a curious little conversation piece to display on a bookshelf. The recipes are not ones you will turn to each night when making dinner, but they are fun to experiment with, as long as you rewrite the directions first in their proper order (they are written in a stream-of-consciousness style), and as long as you read the historical notes that define the units of measure used in the recipes. This book could be a great guide for a "historical reinactment" of a Civil War era dinner, or, if not, then it is at least a selective culinary history of the Old South. Most interesting to me are the medicinal recipes, like blackberry syrup as a remedy for dysentery, and the recipe for "infant diet." This edition contains not only the original cookbook, but an informative afterword that explains some historical facts about Mrs. Fisher and the society around her. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in American history, African-American history, or the art of cooking.



2. "What Mrs. Fisher Knows" is a charming antique and should be read by anyone with an interest in African-American or Southern cookery, or anyone who would like to re-create authentic 19th century American cuisine.

   This reprint of "What Mrs. Fisher Knows" was brought into being by Karen Hess. Hess has provided an informative introduction to the recipes (which are reproduced in their entirety), explaining many 19th century cooking concepts which may be unfamiliar to the modern cook and providing as much of Abby Fisher's story as can be found. In Fisher's original text it is interesting to see some of the earliest known written recipes for several dishes and to discover others which are almost unknown today. Fisher's original recipes are typical of 19th century (and earlier) cookbooks. Each recipe is several sentences in a single paragraph, with no separate ingredient list. In many cases it is assumed that the cook will know how to prepare something that is taken as a given in the recipe. This is a cookbook from a time when all cooking was "from scratch", when there were few labor-saving kitchen gadgets, and printed books were luxury items. It is not a step-by-step cookbook. [For that, see Chef Paul Prudhomme or Southern Living.]

   "Good Things to Eat" by Rufus Estes is sometimes called the first cookbook written by an African-American. "What Mrs. Fisher Knows" was published thirty years earlier. (It could be said that Mrs. Fisher, a former slave, did not actually "write" the book as she evidently did not know how to write; she dictated the recipes to a member of the Women's Cooperative Printing Office in San Francisco which published the work in 1881.)

   (The editor, Karen Hess has done similar work on Mary Randolph's "The Virginia Housewife" and "Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats".)




3. The recipes are cleverly presented but they consist of brief summaries or notes about cooking.



4. This is more than a cookbook (because most recipes you can't recreate), it is a historical account of life as a slave cook.

1 comments about Southern Soul Food: Mom's Favorite Family Recipes.

1. I marked so many pages in this cookbook for recipes I want to try(I am a mom of a large family and I cook from scratch several times a week)!This cookbook has good, filling, nutritious recipes that the family will love (and the kids will eat).At the same time, it also has recipes that "use up" odds and ends that I had around here that I was wondering what to do with.There are some diverse recipes, but they do not use hard-to-find ingredients. Most of these recipes use what I personally have on hand in my pantry, and they would use up some of the things that I need to use up.This is a good cookbook.The budget conscious family would especially like this, because these recipes will make your food dollar stretch further. (and they also taste good!) :)

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4 comments about Cooking with Heart and Soul.

1. This is book would have to be without a doubt the absolute guide to soul food. The delicious meals are always complimented by pictures that would make the gumbo cry. Sinfully delicious is what I can say about this book. If you want a hearty meal with a smile to match, buy this cook book... FAST



2. A disclaimer: This great cook book was based in part on some of my great-grandmother's recipes, so I have to tell you from the jump that I am a completely biased reader. I love it! Opening it was like going back home and the memories of my family's good cookin--grandaddy's, too, makes my mouth water even as I write this. The recipes are well written--easy to follow meals that are hassle-free to prepare. There's a nice variety from folk who clearly know their way around a kitchen, so if you like Southern cuisine with a nod toward healthy-living, this is a cookbook for you.



3. This well-written, easy to follow cookbook is not only one of my favorites to draw from when I'm feeling creative in the kitchen. It is also one of my favorite reads. The stories that Isaac tells from his growing up...to his stardom as THE most creative force in soul music...to the point that he is now will make you read them over & over again. Not to mention the fact that recipes are so wonderful! For starters, the Million-Dollar pie is delicious. The fried corn is off the chain. And the lemon meringue pie will make you wanna slap somebody for real! The whole cookbook gets a "Lawd Have Mercy!" from me. Thanx Isaac!



4. Thanks, this is a collectable item from one of my favorite artists and I will be proud to give as a Xmas present.

5 comments about The Africa News Cookbook: African Cooking for Western Kitchens (Penguin Handbooks).

1. If only for one recipe, Doro Wat (my spelling may be off, I loaned out my copy and have never seen it again!) Chicken Stew, it is AMAZING!!!! Don't be put off by the ingredients (lots of cayenne pepper!) And making the aromatic Berbere, and Ghee yourself is a bit time consuming, but worth the experience and effort. (You can use your old coffee grinder) I made Doro Wat chicken for a party, after having some at a food festival and prying the recipe source from the chef, and it was the most well received dish I EVER served,(to a room of critics!) and I'm a great cook! Plus there are loads of other authentic African recipes,(from various countries) a cusine that gets over-looked too often!



2. The Africa News Cookbook is great. My child's school recently had a festival celebrating cultures around the world. My friend loaned me the cookbook and I shared the recipes with the other parents in the school. The recipes were fairly easy to make and the descriptions were easy to follow. We had a great time sampling food with an African influence and learned a lot in the process.
   I am ordering my own copy!



3. If you can only have one cookbook of African food in your collection, this is the one I recommend. I have had it for many years, after finding it in a library. I can't even count how many times I made the Jollof Rice recipe in this book - I've made it following the recipe explicitly, I've had chicken as the only meat, shrimp as the only meat, no meat - and it's been perfect. The recipes from Eastern Africa I know are authentic as I shared the book with a native Tanzanian while I studied Swahili, and she said that the recipes are very similar to hers. Same with a native Nigerian; in fact, she borrowed my book to make Egusi soup (Egusi is a gourd/melon whose seeds are used ground up as a thickener, which adds it's own flavor)when she misplaced her own recipe. I have made a lot of the recipes, but after the Jollof Rice, the Kuku na Nazi (koo-koo nah Nah-zee - which means Chicken in Coconut in Swahili) is my favorite recipe. I also make the Garum Masala recipe in the book. If you need a recipe for curry, there are several in the book including curry for fruit and curry for fish, and Berberé which is an Ethiopian Curry in liquid form.



4. I agree with all the other reviewers. This is an excellent cookbook, one of my very favorites.



5. The recipes are easy and very good. The bread, Injera is normally very difficult to make, but this book includes an extremely easy version that anyone can make. Highly recommended!