Our Bookshelf

In addition to the many websites, magazines, and blogs that we follow and eagerly scour, we still do it the old fashioned way sometimes and reach for that dog-eared, fingerprinted cookbook (ok, and maybe the smudged iPad or Kindle).  Here’s a list of some of our recommended reads – recipe and cookbooks, photography, novels, fiction, non-fiction and more.

Cookbooks

• The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition by Cooks Illustrated
• Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cookingby Anthony Bourdain
• Cooking With Claudine (Jacques Pepin’s Kitchen)by Jacques Pepin
• Local Breads: Sourdough and Whole-Grain Recipes from Europe’s Best Artisan Bakersby Daniel Leader
• The Essential Asian Cookbook (Essential Cookbook)
  by Wendy Stephens
• Esalen Cookbookby Charlie Cascio
• “Feeding the Dragon: A Culinary Travelogue Through China with Recipes” by Mary-Kate Tate & Nate Tate
• Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking by Nathan Myhrvold

Coffee

• Coffee with Tim Wendelboe by Tim Wendelboe
• The Professional Barista’s Handbook by Scott Rao

Non-fiction

• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  by Michael Pollan
• Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.) by Anthony Bourdain
• Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)
  by Bill Buford
• The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious – and Perplexing – City by David Lebovitz
• Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman

Fiction

• Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesiaby Elizabeth Gilbert

Fitness Nutrition

• The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance by Loren Cordain
• The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More than 150 recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages by Loren Cordain

Photography

• Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling by Helene Dujardin

Check back for updates as we bookworm our way through. Any other good reads?  Let us know!