The next Reader’s Advisory Roundtable meeting will be on
Zoom on Wednesday, February 10 at 9am and the topic up for discussion is
inspirational fiction.
As a reminder, you can find RART here in the blogosphere
(how long has it been since you’ve seen that word?) at www.raroundtable.blogspot.com
and on Facebook under RA Reading (www.facebook.com/jcplareadersadvisory.roundtable).
Yesterday, RART met to discuss cookbooks and it was lively! And delicious! COVID prevented us from having the usual
holiday potluck, but maybe next year!
15 in attendance:
Holley W, O’Neal
Samuel R, BPL Springville Road
Judith W, Homewood
Leslie W, Homewood
Laura T, Homewood
Joi M, Vestavia
Melissa B, Homewood
Veronica C, Homewood
Maura D, Trussville
Heather C, Homewood
Shawn C, Pinson
Nicole L, Tarrant
Riana M, Pinson
Tamiko N, BPL
Martella N, Center Point
Salt
Fat Acid Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
A visionary new master class in cooking that distills
decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the
woman declared “America’s next great cooking teacher” by Alice Waters.
Holley
The Lebanese Palate: Recipes
and Traditions from Saint Elias Maronite Church
This title is not in the Jefferson County Library system,
nor could I find it for sale online.
Contact St. Elias Church directly if you are interested! Recipes from
The Ladies' Altar Society of St. Elias Maronite Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
Includes the church history, historical photos, and blessings.
Holley
Thug
Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
Yeah, plenty of blogs and cookbooks preach about how to eat more
kale, why ginger fights inflammation, and how to cook with microgreens and
nettles. But they are dull or pretentious as hell—and most people can't afford
the hype. Thug Kitchen lives in the real world. In their first cookbook,
they're throwing down more than 100 recipes for their best-loved meals, snacks
and sides for beginning cooks to home chefs.
Leslie
Magnolia
Table by Joanna Gaines
Magnolia Table is infused with Joanna Gaines' warmth
and passion for all things family, prepared and served straight from the heart
of her home, with recipes inspired by dozens of Gaines family favorites and
classic comfort selections from the couple's new Waco restaurant, Magnolia
Table.
Leslie
Lidia’s
Celebrate Like an Italian: 220 Foolproof Recipes That Make Every Meal a Party
by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Beautifully illustrated throughout with full-color
photographs and filled with her trademark warmth and enthusiasm, this is
Lidia's most festive book. Whether you're planning a romantic picnic for two, a
child's birthday party, a holiday gathering, or a simple weeknight family
dinner, Lidia's flavorful, easy-to-follow recipes and advice will have you
calling to your guests: "Tutti a tavola a mangiare!"
Samuel
The
Mediterranean Slow Cooker by Michele Scicolone
With the combination of tradition, innovation, and ease that
have made her recipes so popular, Michele Scicolone gathers intriguing dishes
from every corner of the Mediterranean and streamlines them for the slow
cooker.
Samuel
Middle
Eastern Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, Delicious Recipes to Make at Home by
Tess Mallos
With beautifully illustrated easy-to-follow
recipes, Middle Eastern Home Cooking is the perfect guide for cooks
of all abilities.
Samuel
Delish
Ultimate Cocktails: Why Limit Happy to an Hour? By Joanna Saltz
100+ insanely great cocktail recipes for every occasion
including margaritas, mimosas, martinis and more, each with a fresh and fun
twist. Plus, super-creative boozy sweets!
Joi
Son
of a Southern Chef: Cook with Soul by Lazarus Lynch
In his debut cookbook, Laz offers up more than 100 recipe
hits with new takes on classic dishes. Packed with splashy color photography
that pops off the page, this cookbook blends fashion, food, and storytelling to
get readers into the kitchen. It's a Southern cookbook like you've never seen
before.
Joi
Christmas
with Kim-Joy: A Festive Collection of Edible Cuteness by Kim-Joy
Kim-Joy's baked creations have charmed fans since she was in
the final of the Great British Bake Off 2018. Following on from her bestselling
debut book, Baking with Kim-Joy, she's turning to everyone's favourite time of
year – Christmas!
Joi
Nadiya
Hussain’s “Bake Me a Story” children’s cookbook series
Join Great British Bake Off sensation Nadiya Hussain for
scrumptious stories and delicious bakes that all the family can enjoy.
Laura
The
Little Women Cookbook: Tempting Recipes from the March Sisters and Their
Friends and Family by Wini Moranville
Here at last is the first cookbook to celebrate the
scrumptious and comforting foods that play a prominent role in Louisa
May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women.
Laura
Niche/pop culture cookbooks:
The
Golden Girls Cookbook, The
Downton Abbey Cookbook, The Madmen Cookbook, The
Harry Potter Cookbook, The
Star Wars Cookbook, Chrissy
Teigen’s cookbooks, the
HungryGirl cookbooks
Shawn
The
Power of Sprinkles: A Cake Book by the Founder of Flour Shop by Amirah
Kassem
Flour Shop’s rainbow explosion cakes have become an
international sensation! And now, with The Power of Sprinkles, Flour Shop
Founder Amirah Kassem reveals the secrets to making her magical cakes at home.
Judith
The
Wizard’s Dessert Cookbook: Magical Recipes Inspired by Harry Potter, The
Hobbit, Fantastic Beasts, The Chronicles of Narnia, and More by Aurelia
Beaupommier
From Hobbits to Willy Wonka to Ghostbusters, from Harry
Potter to Merlin, wizards and fantastic creatures alike like to put a little
sweetness in their daily lives. There are bites to snack and share, charming
cookies and cakes, and divine desserts that are full of mystery!
Judith
The
Perfect Cookie: Your Ultimate Guide to Foolproof Cookies, Brownies, and Bars
edited by America’s Test Kitchen
America's Test Kitchen has years of experience making the
very best cookies; in The Perfect Cookie, the test kitchen has collected
all of that knowledge in one place for the definitive guide to cookie baking.
Judith
Let’s
Make Ramen!: A Comic Book Cookbook by Hugh Amano
A comic book cookbook with accessible ramen recipes for the
home cook, including simple weeknight bowls, weekend project stocks, homemade
noodles, and an array of delicious accompaniments, with insights and tips from
notable ramen luminaries.
Shawn
Cook
Anime: Eat Like Your Favorite Character-From Bento to Yakisoba by Diana
Ault
Learn to recreate delicious dishes referenced in over 500 of
your favorite anime series with this practical guide to anime food.
Shawn
Heather
Sally’s
Cookie Addiction: Irresistible Cookies, Cookie Bars, Shortbread, and More form
the Creator of the Sally’s Baking Addiction Blog by Sally McKenney
Bake exquisite cookies, bars, and doughs perfectly every
time with Sally's Cookie Addiction, the long-awaited follow-up to baking
addict and food blogger Sally McKenney's popular cookbook, Sally's
Baking Addiction. A world of baking wonder awaits you and all the lucky
people you’ll share these treats with.
Heather
The
Whole30 Slow Cooker: 150 Totally Compliant Prep-and-Go Recipes for Your Whole30
– With Instant Pot Recipes by Melissa Hartwig
The Whole30 Slow Cooker features delicious, no-fuss
dinners that cook while you work; roasts that transform into tacos, salads, and
soups, for easy meals throughout the week; and satisfying one-pot meals that
make prep and cleanup a breeze. These creative meals use whole-food ingredients
found in any supermarket, and as an added bonus, feature recipes and directions
for making your meals Instant Pot-friendly!
Heather
Keto
Instant Pot: 130+ Healthy Low-Carb Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker or
Slow Cooker by Maria Emmerich
In this book, international bestselling author Maria
Emmerich presents more than 160 delicious low-carb, high-fat keto recipes
designed to be cooked in an Instant Pot or other multi-cooker. The recipes run
the gamut from appetizers and sides to soups to main dishes to sweet treats and
even a few drinks, along with some handy keto basics. As a bonus, Maria also
includes slow-cooking instructions (which can be done either in the Instant Pot
or in a separate slow cooker) for each recipe for those days when
set-it-and-forget-it convenience takes precedence over the need for speed.
Heather
The
King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook edited
by King Arthur Flour
The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion is the
definitive kitchen resource. Exhaustive in scope, authoritative in style, and
offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, it is the one book
you'll turn to every time you bake. Like your set of measuring cups and
favorite wooden spoon, it will become an essential kitchen tool. No kitchen in
America should be without a copy.
Heather
Braided:
A Journey of a Thousand Challahs by Beth Ricanati
What if you could bake bread once a week, every week? What
if the smell of fresh bread could turn your house into a home? And what if the
act of making the bread―mixing and kneading, watching and waiting―could heal
your heartache and your emptiness, your sense of being overwhelmed? It can. This
is the surprise that physician-mother Beth Ricanati learned when she started
baking challah: that simply stopping and baking bread was the best medicine she
could prescribe for women in a fast-paced world.
Heather
Will
it Waffle?: 53 Irresistible and Unexpected Recipes to Make in a Waffle Iron
by Daniel Shumski
How many great ideas begin with a nagging thought in the
middle of the night that should disappear by morning, but doesn’t? For Daniel
Shumski, it was: Will it waffle? Hundreds of hours, countless messes,
and 53 perfected recipes later, that answer is a resounding: Yes, it will!
Steak? Yes! Pizza? Yes! Apple pie? Emphatically yes.
Melissa
Cook
Korean!: A Comic Book with Recipes by Robin Ha
A charming introduction to the basics of Korean cooking in
graphic novel form, with 64 recipes, ingredient profiles, and more, presented
through light-hearted comics.
Melissa
Bento
Blast!: More Than 150 Cute and Clever Bento Box Meals for Your Kids by Li
Ming Lee
With more than 160 step-by-step tutorials on how to assemble
balanced bento boxes, create food art, and cook individual recipes that bridge
the East and the West, Bento Blast turns food preparation into an art and makes
eating fun again for both parent and child.
Melissa
The
SkinnyTaste cookbook series
Get the recipes everyone is talking about, handy nutrition
facts, and stunning photographs in the cookbooks from the wildly popular
blog Skinnytaste.
Riana
Cooking
Light: The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook by the editors of Cooking
Light
For quick, healthy, no-fuss recipes, home cooks count on
Cooking Light The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook--the ultimate dinner guide
for making, healthy tasty dishes in minutes using game plans, nutritional
analyses, and over 350 recipes.
Riana
The
Manga Cookbook, illustrated by Chihiro Hattori
Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears
frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are
eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to
preparing simple Japanese dishes using ingredients found in every Western
kitchen.
Nicole
Rose
Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh & Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen
by Maureen Abood
Pomegranates and pistachios. Floral waters and cinnamon.
Bulgur wheat, lentils, and succulent lamb. These lush flavors of Maureen
Abood's childhood, growing up as a Lebanese-American in Michigan, inspired
Maureen to launch her award-winning blog, Rose Water & Orange Blossoms.
Here she revisits the recipes she was reared on, exploring her heritage through
its most-beloved foods and chronicling her riffs on traditional cuisine.
Maura
See
You on Sunday: A Cookbook for Family and Friends by Sam Sifton
From big meats to big pots, with a few words on salad, and a
diatribe on the needless complexity of desserts, See You on Sunday is
an indispensable addition to any home cook’s library. From how to shuck an
oyster to the perfection of Mallomars with flutes of milk, from the joys of
grilled eggplant to those of gumbo and bog, this book is devoted to the
preparation of delicious proteins and grains, vegetables and desserts, taco
nights and pizza parties.
Maura
The
Duke’s Mayonnaise Cookbook: 75 Recipes Celebrating the Perfect Condiment by
Ashley Strickland Freeman
Celebrate the South's favorite mayonnaise and learn how to
cook with it in new delicious ways with this cookbook from food writer and
Duke's lover Ashley Freeman.
Maura
GENERAL DISCUSSION
Youtube cooking shows: Sam the Cooking Guy, Mr. Make It Happen, Mandy in the
Making, Roman’s
Cooking Corner, FlavCity
with Bobby Parrish, Joshua Weissman,
Gourmet
Makes
Japanese bento box cookbooks are very popular.
The Mealime meal planning website and app is fun. (www.mealime.com)
Blog: Sally’s Baking Addiction - https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/
NPR interview with author of “See You On Sunday: A Cookbook
for Family and Friends,” Sam Sifton:
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/17/836907993/best-of-sam-sifton-on-quarantine-cooking-jason-bateman
Healthy cooking is in the bag with this list of delectable cookbooks, curated by the Homewood Public Library: https://hpladultservices.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/healthy-holiday-cooking/. Or, abandon healthy and bake ALL THE COOKIES: https://hpladultservices.wordpress.com/2020/12/12/9777/
OUTSTANDING COOKING SHOWS
Somebody
Feed Phil (Netflix)
"Everybody Loves Raymond" creator Phil Rosenthal
travels the globe to take in the local cuisine and culture of Bangkok, Lisbon,
Mexico City and more.
The
Eater’s Guide to the World (Hulu)
Join narrator Maya Rudolph on a quest to find the most
unexpected places to score an epic meal, while drinking and dining with the
locals along the way.
Flavorful
Origins (Netflix)
Embark on a delightful journey through the culinary
traditions of China and uncover the stories of the people who create and
cherish its dishes.
Ugly
Delicious (Netflix)
All the flavor. None of the BS. Star chef David Chang leads
friends on a mouthwatering, cross-cultural hunt for the world's most satisfying
grub.
Taste
the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (Hulu)
In Taste the Nation, award winning cookbook author, host and
executive producer Padma Lakshmi, takes audiences on a journey across America,
exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups,
seeking out the people who have so heavily shaped what American food is today.
Samurai
Gourmet (Netflix)
Recent retiree Takeshi rediscovers his passion for food and
life by getting in touch with his inner warrior and eating what he truly
desires.
