Podcast Companion, Episode 10! The If-You-Don't-Have-This-Book, It's-Not-Our-Problem Discussion, Concluded!

Hi all!  It's time again for the podcast companion.  In this one, Nate and Jesse conclude their discussion of which cookbooks you definitely need to read (and a bonus discussion of some you definitely don't).



Time Stamps

1:35 Nate’s Brother is Definitely a Sociopath: a Story

8:05 Our Questions to the Listeners

13:12 On Food and Cooking (McGee)

16:01 The Man Who Ate Everything (Steingarten)

18:35 The River Cottage Meat Book Fearnley-Whittingstall

20:27 The Professional Pastry Chef (Friberg)

22:35 Ma Gastronomie (Point)

23:37 In Search of Perfection/Further Adventures… (Blumenthal)

26:00 Under Pressure (Keller)

28:50 Charcuterie (Polcyn/Ruhlman)

30:00 Chocolates and Confections  (Grewling)

33:00 Nate and Jesse’s Over-Rated Book List

33:34 Cooking School Textbooks and Why They Aren’t All That

36:38 Dornberg and Page, Purveyors of Dangerous Crutches

42:30 Escoffier, an Interesting Historical Document

45:20 The Grandma Cookbooks


Links to Featured Books

Many of these were already discussed in our Culinary Mount Rushmore episode, but here are the links to the ones that weren't.

Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking 

Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's The River Cottage Meat Book

Fernand Point's Ma Gastronomie

Heston Blumenthal's In Search of Perfection

Ruhlman and Polcyn's Charcuterie

Peter Greweling's Chocolates and Confections

Saulnier's La Repertoire de la Cuisine

Cook's Illustrated's The Best Recipe


Links to TV Shows we Mentioned 

Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

In Search of Perfection



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