The Observer’s Top 50 Cookbooks of All Time

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Observer ’s food magazine, Observer Food Monthly , brought together a panel of cooks and food writers to select the 50 best cookbooks of all time. Of all time! As in, there’s one from 1570 (#49 Opera dell’arte del Cucinare by Bartolomeo Scappi—you know, just in case you have some Renaissance popes over for lunch). The list ranged from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking to the Momofuku Cookbook to many British cookbooks, including those by Jamie Oliver, Fergus Henderson, and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Do you agree with the list? Have you cooked from many of the books?

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Time for a Drink: The Kangaroo, aka Vodka Martini

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From Recipes Let’s start the weekend right–with a cocktail recipe from Paul Clarke ( The Cocktail Chronicles ). Need more than one? Hit up the archives. Cheers! While compiling the list of “The 25 Most Influential Cocktails of the Past Century,” which I posted about on Wednesday, there was one drink that I thought clearly deserved to be on the list, but which is likely unknown to most contemporary drinkers under its original name: the Kangaroo . The Kangaroo first started cropping up in drink-recipe books and on bar menus sometime around 1950. It was based on vodka, then a relatively new spirit behind American bars; many bartenders, initially uncertain about how to use the new booze, started working with it by simply taking gin-based drinks that were already in circulation and instead making them with vodka (so, for example, the Orange Blossom, made with gin and orange juice, begat the vodka-based Screwdriver). Not surprisingly, somebody, somewhere took what was at that time the most popular gin-based cocktail, the Martini, and tried making it with vodka, dubbing the new mixture the Kangaroo. (Why? Who knows.) The drink shows up by …

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The 25 Most Influential Cocktails of the Past Century

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In choosing our list of 25 drinks, we kept the focus on “influential” and not necessarily “good.” [Photograph: Robyn Lee] As anyone who’s spent time atop a barstool can attest, the bibulous world can be broken down into a few basic categories. There are the forgettable drinks , mixtures that seemed like a good idea to someone but which thankfully never gain much traction in the larger world. There are the drinks that are good but not great , which may enjoy a season or several of popularity before dropping out of favor, later to be looked upon as dated culinary curiosities. And then there are the mixological mainstays , the drinks that have such appealing characters that, old or new, they continue to resonate decades after their debut, inspiring replications and derivations and sending spirituous shockwaves through the drinks world for years to come. In the current issue of Imbibe , I tackle the latter category with an assessment of the 25 Most Influential Cocktails of the Past Century . By choosing only those drinks created since 1910 (plus a few with uncertain provenance but which crept into larger use during the last 100 years), we removed a few of the older, more obvious classics from consideration—drinks such as the Old Fashioned, the Manhattan and the Daiquiri , each of which predates the 100-year …

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Pizza Obsessives: Lou T

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From Slice I’ve had Lou T on my list of candidates for a Pizza Obsessives interview since Slice started doing these earlier this year. With his singlehanded invention of My Pie Monday , I figured this was a great time to put the man in the hot seat. Buckle up, folks! — The Mgmt. Lou T’s Margherita pizza, which kicked off the whole “My Pie Monday” feature yesterday. [Photograph: Lou T ] Name: Lou T Location: Jersey Shore Website: None…. yet ;) I registered passionoftheslice.com What type of pizza do you prefer? Neapolitan and a good New York–style are my personal favorites. The Pizza Cognition Theory states that “the first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes … becomes, for him, pizza.” Do you remember your first slice? Where was it from, is the place still around, and if so, does it hold up? On that note, has your taste in pizza evolved over time? I don’t remember my first slice of pizza, but I do remember opinions I held or things I did to pizza that friends and family saw as uncommon. For example, I remember pulling off a lot of the cheese on pizzas or not …

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The Top 5 iPod Apps for Foodies

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Over on Life Scoop, our J. Kenji Lopez-Alt rounds up five of the best iPod apps that’ll help you cook everything (OK, over 2,000 things!) a la Mark Bittman, understand what seafood is sustainable, and more. Which apps would you add to the list?

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Comment of the Day: Some Pillsbury Bake-Off Insight

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“There are actually 2 lists of eligible ingredients. List A is the Pillsbury “convenience” foods—pie dough, bread dough, cookie dough, etc. While Flour, Crisco, Eggland’s Best Eggs, et al, are indeed eligible ingredients, they’re actually part of what’s called “List B” ingredients and are usually considered bit players to the List A ingredients. The rules state you *must* use one ingredient from list A and one ingredient from list B so there’s really almost no way around one of the list A convenience items taking front and center stage for your recipe (how could you possibly hide 17 oz of pie or cookie dough in any recipe—it’s really not possible)….” — stephle, in Talk

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Valentine’s Day!

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I decided a few of weeks ago, that I wanted to try to make some cookies using vintage Valentine cards as the theme. They are so sweet and the artwork is just darling. I’ve seen cookies and cakes with artwork printed on them online and in bakeries, but I didn’t realize this was something I could achieve at home. After doing a little research, I found out you can buy frosting sheets and edible ink cartridges for certain home printers. And mine was one of them. YAY! So I bought the inks for my printer. Then I realized I would have to clean it somehow, which sounded like a whole bunch of trouble, so I decided to buy another printer just like it. No such luck. My printer is too old for stores to still carry. So, I had to get a newer printer, which meant I needed different inks … of course. But I was determined, so I went ahead and exchanged the inks while I waited for the new printer to arrive. After it arrived and I started to set it up, I thought something was strange. It called for six cartridges, but the edible inks …

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Bargain Prices on Magazines

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I love Real Simple Magazine. It’s one I’ve been wanting to subscribe to for a while, but I always end up talking myself out of it. Not this time! When I saw an offer for a year subscription at only $5 I couldn’t refuse. Amazon.com is offering several magazine subscriptions for only $5. That’s about how much one issue costs, so I consider it a win if there is a magazine on their list that you’ve been interested in for a while. Check out the others here . Food & Wine is another magazine on the list. I’ve never subscribed or read that magazine before, but at only $5 I’m going to give it a try. These would make great inexpensive holiday gifts. Today – December 1st – is the last day, so if you’re interested in any of the magazines, don’t hesitate to take advantage of this great offer! Help keep these great magazines alive. After the closure of Gourmet , I don’t want to say goodbye to another wonderful resource.

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National Geographic includes Amalfi Coast in World’s 50 greatest drives

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The September edition of the National Geographic had a special on the world’s 50 greatest drives and we were happy to see that the a drive along the Costiera Amalfitana was included in the list.

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GUEST POST: Observations from a Novice Cook

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Kris is on vacation. Today’s post comes from Stan Laikowski, who sometimes writes or says funny things. He has a brand new blog here: www.bedstan.vox.com . He is always a husband and dad. My young self had big plans for my adult self. I had always seen myself as growing into a jack-of-all-trades, without the “master of none” part. With little effort, and even less time commitment, I was to be a phenomenal drummer, clutch jump shooter, and cutting edge film director. Skate boarder. Novelist. Jet setter. The list goes on. The dusty Tama Swingstar drum set that I finally threw out a few years ago tells a different story, as does the pile of notebooks I have accumulated, each holding dozens of half-finished story sketches. To be fair, I have met with varying degrees of success. Did somebody say indie band ‘Housemother Dunbar’? No? OK. Regardless, as I get older, each year seems to be defining what I will never be. Cooking was yet another art on my list. I saw myself as a happy-go-lucky bachelor with serious culinary chops, creating sumptuous meals while sharing a glass of…

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