My top 5 books for 2011 (in no particular order)
- Poh’s Kitchen (review)
- Two Asian Kitchens (review)
- Delicious (review)
- Jeni’s Spendid Ice-cream (review)
- Momofuku Milk Bar (review)
MY GIFT IDEAS
- Book for the guy addicted to Bunnings
- Adrian’ Richardson’s The Good Life (Review)
- Book for those that count chocolate as a vegetable
- PS desserts (review)
- Book for the guy that thinks he can cook but can’t
- Manu’s Kitchen (review)
- Book for the chick who wears Campers and makes her own cool clothes
- Sweet Treats (review)
- Book for the princess brat moving out of home
- Donna Hay’s Fast Fresh Simple (review)
- Book for the self righteous hipster
- South East Asian Food (review)
- I wear Birkenstocks and remember Woodstock
- Food Safari (review)
- Best group present that everyone will be happy with
- Delicious by Valli Little (review)
- Book for the awesome teacher or kindly Aunt that you actually like
- Around my French Table (review)
- Best coffee table book – if George Clooney was a book….
- Gingerboy (review pending)
Amazon Top 10 2011
- Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking [Hardcover] Nathan Myhrvold (Author), Chris Young (Author), Maxime Bilet (Author)
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef [Hardcover] Gabrielle Hamilton (Author)
- The Oxford Companion to Beer [Kindle Edition] Garrett Oliver (Author, Editor), Tom Colicchio (Author, Foreword), Horst Dornbusch (Author)
- The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook: 2,000 Recipes from 20 Years of America’s Most Trusted Cooking Magazine [Hardcover] Editors at Cook’s Illustrated Magazine (Author)
Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food [Hardcover] Jacques Pepin (Author)
- Good Eats 3: The Later Years [Hardcover] Alton Brown (Author)
- Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas [Hardcover] Brad Thomas Parsons (Author), Ed Anderson (Photographer)
- The Homesick Texan Cookbook [Hardcover] Lisa Fain (Author)
- Momofuku Milk Bar [Hardcover] Christina Tosi (Author), David Chang (Foreword)
- See my review here.
- Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi [Hardcover]Yotam Ottolenghi (Author), Jonathan Lovekin (Photographer)
Best cookbooks collated from around the world: http://www.eatyourbooks.com/community/best-cookbooks-of-2011