Wednesday, November 18, 2020

More (Digital) Cookbooks to Tease Your Palate

These featured cookbooks are available on our hoopla digital app. Enjoy flipping through these recipes and not messing up your book while trying a few of them out for your family!



The New Homemade Kitchen: 250 Recipes and Ideas for Reinventing the Art of Preserving, Canning, Fermenting, Dehydrating, and More is by Joseph Shuldiner. Revive the lost arts of fermenting, canning, preserving, and creating your own ingredients. The Institute of Domestic Technology Cookbook is a collection of 250 recipes, ideas, and methods for stocking a kitchen, do-it-yourself food-crafting projects, and cooking with homemade ingredients. The chapters include instructions on how to make your own food products and pantry staples, as well as recipes highlighting those very ingredients-for example, make your own feta and bake it into a Greek phyllo pie, or learn how to dehydrate leftover produce and use it in homemade instant soup mixes. Each chapter includes instructions to make your own pantry staples, like ground mustard, sourdough starter, and miso paste. Complete with recipes that utilize the very ingredients you made. Filled with informative and helpful features like flavor variation charts, extended tutorials, faculty advice, and instructional line drawings. Also included are features like food-crafting charts, historical tidbits, 100+ photos and illustrations, how-to's, and sidebars featuring experts and deans from the Institute, including LA-based cheese-makers, coffee roasters, butchers, and more. From the Institute of Domestic Technology, a revered food-crafting school in Los Angeles, each chapter is based on the school's curriculum and covers all manners of techniques-such as curing, bread-baking, cheese-making, coffee-roasting, butchering, and more. Complete with beautiful food photography, this well-researched and comprehensive cookbook will inspire chefs of all levels. Great gift for food-crafters, food geeks, food pioneers, farmers' market shoppers, as well as people who feel nostalgic for a slower way of life.


American drummer, DJ, producer, designer, culinary entrepreneur, music educator, and bestselling author Questlove brings you Mixtape potluck: a cookbook. What if Questlove threw a potluck dinner, and everybody came? He picked the guests. The guests picked the recipes. The result is the ultimate potluck cookbook. Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series of renowned Food Salons and conversations with some of America's most prominent chefs. Now he is turning his hand to creating a cookbook. In Mixtape Potluck Cookbook, Questlove imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than fifty chefs, entertainers, and musicians-such as Eric Ripert, Natalie Portman, and Q-Tip-and asking them to bring along their favorite recipes. He also pairs each cook with a song that he feels best captures their unique creative energy. The result is not only an accessible, entertaining cookbook, but also a collection of Questlove's diverting musical commentaries as well as an illustration of the fascinating creative relationship between music and food. With Questlove's unique style of hosting dinner parties and his love of music, food, and entertaining, this book will give readers unexpected insights into the relationship between culture and food.


Half the Sugar, All the Love: a family cookbook features 100 easy, low-sugar recipes for every meal of the day is by Jennifer Tyler Lee and Anisha I. Patel, MD, MSPH. Would you feed your child a candy bar for breakfast? Of course not. And yet today our children routinely consume three times the recommended daily allowance of added sugar, which puts them at an unprecedented risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, excess weight, and even nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. These doctor-approved recipes that cut the sugar (by half—or more!) without sacrificing the flavors our families love. It’s an eye-opening education, a program of healthy eating, and a cookbook chock-full of easy, delicious recipes all in one. Pass the breakfast bars!


Let's Fix Lunch! by Kat Nouri makes it easy (and fun!) to prepare meals that are good for you and good for the planet. This eco-friendly cookbook features delicious, waste-free recipes for sandwiches, salads, soups, snacks, and more. An inspiring guide for anyone who wants to do their small part to save the earth, Let's Fix Lunch! makes it simple to create a sustainable, waste-free home. - Easy-to-make recipes for all home cooks - Includes more than 50 simple tips for reducing food waste and plastic use - Features a handy guide to buying in bulk, meal prepping, and food storage This eco-conscious cookbook is written by Kat Nouri, founder of the beloved, environmentally friendly kitchen brand Stasher. Let's Fix Lunch! is the perfect kitchen companion for eco-conscious parents and office workers. - Brims with bright, vivid photographs of tasty dishes and beautifully packed lunches - Perfect for anyone who tries to live a waste-free, low plastic, and environmentally friendly lifestyle - Packed with inspired, accessible meal-prep ideas and techniques.

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