This book is as much fun to read as it is to try out the recipes! Mdm. Benoit tells some wonderful little stories with every recipes. Truly fascitating. It also has recipes that you simply can't find anymore, along with the best bread recipe I've ever tasted!

Dutch photographer Bartelsman traveled across America for a year, taking photos and gathering recipes from forty top American chefs. Magic In The Kitchen pairs art with food, adding sometimes whimsical photos of the chefs, their dishes, and their signature recipes. Discriminating fans of recipes which are unique to their creators will find this both visually appealing and delicious.

This book is a feast for the eyes, the text alone is well worth the purchase price. The addition of the authors and others photographs is a "time machine experience" for this reviewer, who grew up in Detroit, Michigan in the 1950's . Canada and the Detroit area was the Mecca for the last real steam bastion in this era and Mr, Zimmermann has risen to the challenge of showing us what it looked like with words and photographs. A nice mix of color and Black & White photos illustrate the tale. But the narrative makes this volume a stand out in my opinion. If you were not able to witness the show in person, this book is a worthy replacement and belongs in any steam fans library.

This is one awesome cookbook! Recipes are easy to follow. Turn very inexpensive cuts of meat into very tasty dishes. This is one very interesting book either for the recipe content or the Mahalia Jackson collection. Includes pics of Mahalia preparing these tasty recipes in her kitchen. Sure to please.

This is a classic account of the intersection between media and legislating. Tim Cook takes both a broad look at legislators' media strategies and more closely at some specific cases. This is political science, not political drama, so it will be especially helpful for academic purposes. However it is also highly interesting and not as dry as some political science. The book's one flaw is that it is aging. Cook's observations were made prior to the rise of Newt Gingrich and his media-intensive style of governance. There is still a big distinction between a "work horse" and a "show horse" in "Making Laws and Making News." Now that Newt's gone, perhaps equilibrium has been restored and the norms described in this book are coming back into vogue. If not, it is still an invaluable comparative resource - I'm certainly not aware of any other source that looks at this particular subject. After all this time "Making Laws and Making News" is still a headliner.

A classic book and I have given many copies away to chefs and aspiring cooks. If I had only 10 books, this would be number one beside the other nine favorite (essential) cookbooks.Madeleine explains why cooking is very exciting stuff and she has changed the cooking lives of very many people in this country.Born in France, she understands the reasons for getting great results. She is passionate and inspiring to others.

Without a doubt this is one of the most wonderful cookbooks I have ever read. The stories of young Giampaolo Fallai and his mother that compliment each recipe are to-die-for funny! - On top of that the illustrations by Anna Jurininch are stunning and bring back a sense of an "old time story book" - The recipes are easy to follow and exciting to prepare - truly an original cookbook.

...Bob Cook...has a great website...
You can get more information there.

Thanks Bob for a great book. You have presented your material well and had great help in doing so...

Wayne

The book in question contains all of the information necessary in the pursuit of tropical medicine. However a seperate atlas would be handy.

This cookbook from the early '50s holds up remarkably well given changes in taste and diet over the years.

We particularly like the stuffing recipe but there's a wealth of palatable dishes here.