Whatever might one find when flipping through The Joy of Cooking looking for low calorie vinaigrette inspiration? The cookbook is a potentially better source, in many ways, than today’s calorie-obsessed online recipes as back then, folks still wanted a generous thwap on the tongue in terms of flavor. What you may find, if you’re lucky, are a few words of low fat recipe wisdom circa the 1975 edition…
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The more things change, the more they change. Eighty years later, The Joy of Cooking has a new website. Nostalgia aside, it’s a great online rendition that is run by the “Joy family” — though in daily blog post time that means primarily Irma Rombauer’s great-grandson, John Becker, as well as Megan Scott.
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Last year, rather than crowning a single cookbook the “Best Of” title in LA Weekly, I simply settled on an entire category that was consistently great — baking. This year, the most prominent publishing category of the year, media cookbooks, also by coincidence is home to several interesting cookbooks. But no cookbook, media or otherwise, is as engaging and practical for the home cook as Amanda Hesser’s The Essential New York Times Cookbook. Turn the page for more about my Best Cookbook of 2010 gold crown winner for the newspaper.
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