We Do It All Here On the Western Slope of the Valley

Our esteemed colleagues at Amber Unicorn Books are the local specialists in cookbooks. We're behind them so far, but Myrna can feel my hot doggie breath on her neck as we increase our cookbook holdings. We're the First- Number 1 - to offer you a recipe, though. From Publishers  Weekly  What's Cookin' ?

What a Weekend !

My esteemed colleague, Myrna Donato, also known as Amber Unicorn Books, and I had the great pleasure of participating in the culinary activities of Vegas Valley Book Festival ( vegasvalleybooksfestival.org ).  In one of last week's posts, I mentioned the Publishers Weekly website, and sure enough, this morning the followin article showed up in my e-mail on the best twenty-five cookbooks of 2010:

Gastronomy is not "Rumbly in the Tummy"

Even though Winnie the Pooh might say so. One of our colleagues is also a Chef - a real chef, not just a cook. Another of our colleagues has the best selection of cookbooks in Las Vegas, but we're running hard after her, and gaining. When we put our snob suits on, we refer to cooking books as "Books on Gastronomy."
I'm a plain, home cook, and very much enjoy reading, as do all other cookbook collectors, cookbooks. There are two wonderful magazine hardbound annual editions that are just the thing for those of us who don't like their food to look like somebody put their fingers all over the minute portions of whatever current weird veggie disguised under an Italian version of its name, or some strange fish name that most of us know as tuna fish. We recommend:

The Taste of Home annuals, and
The Cook's Illustrated annuals

if you cook like me. If not, we still recommend them. Buon Appetito !