The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Winning Recipes from Exceptional Home Cooks (Food52, 1)

Food 52 started as a community driven recipe site and in the past I enjoyed. However, as my tastes and experiences changed and developed I have relied on this site less. I still get lulled in to thinking I will find value in their cookbooks and the pretty pictures and reviews for this was no exception. The copyright is 2011 and I feel the recipes reflect that era.If you are not an inexperienced cook and are looking for basic, not particularly current recipes, this may suit you well. It’s a quality production book, just out of date.

The first word that comes to my mind about all of these fascinating recipes is FUN. This is a great cookbook for the adventurous cook who (like me) loves to make something new, always looking for the next specialite to add to my tried-and-true recipes. In other words, this book is not for the cook who is looking for 30-minute easy weeknight meals.These 140 recipes may be intended FOR home cooks, but they're not all FROM home cooks. Most recipe contributors have some serious food creds. They include several food bloggers, a culinary student, a private chef or two, and even a culinary instructor. I bought the book because I enjoy the food52 com website, and own and appreciate a previous book, "Genius Recipes."This book is beautifully constructed, curated, and edited. It's the harvest from their year-long recipe contests, the winners of which were adjudicated by other members of the food52 community. The recipes in this volume were tested by "A&M," the author/editors. Every single recipe comes with a headnote that usually combines comments from the recipe's originator with thoughts from A&M. Every recipe has "tips and techniques," "about the cook," and, usually, comments from the members of the food52 community who loved the dish. Every dish has a color photo of the completed dish, and we see many photos of A&M preparing the dishes as well.Although some recipes are simple and quick, most are not: the recipe contributors want you to get it right, and A&M and their publisher -- THANK YOU! -- don't seem to limit them in terms of ingredients or instructions. Like the individual recipe contributors, the recipes are literally all over the map: from "Secret [Swedish] Cookies" to "Shrimp Biryani," "Turkey Pho," and "Whole Baked Fish in Sea Salt with Parsley Gremolata."If you're a meat lover, you'll find lots of recipes to bookmark in this volume. I don't eat meat other than fish, but I've bookmarked "Helen's Spicy Shrimp," "Griddled Polenta Cakes," and "Spanish Roasted Potato Salad."And I may find myself making the "Secret Cookies" for the holidays :).

Food52 Cookbook is a book containing 140 food recipes approximately, of cooking of international cooking and more by some wonderful women who have organized this site and where everyone after subscription can write and send his/her own recipe, unique one, to contribute to enrichment of this great enterprise of cooking oniine, with more and less original food.I am personally a member sending recipes to them, from time to time, of Greek cooking for ex. these recipes can serve also to anyone who wants to cook on his/her own at home by finding relative ingredients, or can be also sold to hotels, for cooking, and offer variety of food to their customers, for ex. if their hotel program is offer half pension, thus breakfast and diner for ex. and thus gain more (new and recurrent clients) to their hotel. Buy now! Visit the relative site when you want to contribute respectively!

I loved reading about the techniques and different mixes of ingredients offered by awesome chefs. I bookmarked many recipes to try when I’m feeling bored with my current repertoire of meals. Worth the look to learn from outstanding chefs.

I bought this for my sister for Christmas and she loves it! "I can't put it down. It's beautiful".She is a home cook that can turn anything in the cupboard to something that looks like a restaurant meal. I would much rather have her cook me something that go out.I read the reviewers who say that the recipes are too difficult to make. I asked my sister and she said they were not difficult and has already made a few. She is not high end, but just someone who loves to cook good meals for her family. I think if you are concerned about being too difficult then maybe they are not willing to learn and grow their cooking talents (just a thought, not an indictment). but I know she is always looking to learn more and make better and more creative things. She seems to be extremely happy with it.So I guess if you want a simple daily cookbook, stick with the joys of cooking...that is my level. ;) But if you like to be creative and learn and advance your ability and love looking at beautiful pictures, this is a perfect book.

Great recipes. One comment on the broccoli rabe, potato and rosemary pizza recipe- The crust recipe in my experience of making homemade pizza dough, they omitted water. Typically the recipe as it is written in other recipes I've used call for at least a 1/2 cup water to 3/4 (or a little more) depending on the flour used. I made this dough tonight but doubled the recipe so I added a cup and a half of water and got the consistency I like in pizza dough. I did use part white wheat flour and that always means you need more liquid.

I bought two of these, one for me, and one as a present to my brother, a great home chef. You can't learn to cook from this book, but you can learn to GROW as a cook from this book.Throw out the authors' names. This book of recipes was written by America -- cooks like you and me who mostly had to find our own way. It is a celebration of individual effort, and individual effort usually defies categorization. Let me suggest that you tour our country, visit every house in every town, choose the best meals and write those recipes down, then put the best of the best into a folio, and then organize it by the season you visited. This is what you have here -- the cookbook Mark Twain never wrote. Five stars, plus one for the sheer impossibility.

One of the most interesting and delicious collections of recipes for the home cook who loves food... Probably the best cook book I've bought in recent years for inspiring delicious suppers for family and friends.

You'll want to try almost everything in this cookbook but some of the recipes are not as tasty as they look. Some, however, are excellent!

Unfortunately, the kindle version doesn't work very well. Pages are missing so nothing makes sense. Fortunately, I got it with Bookbub so it was only a couple of bucks. Maybe I'll be able to decipher it one day.