Now Even More Varied Than Ingredients
By Wally Clark | For the Kitsap Sun Saturday,
'Oh, the joys of holiday cooking! There was a time when searching for a holiday recipe at home was a casual affair, casual only because there was usually just one cookbook in the house to choose from. That sole title was the family standard, the all-in-one kitchen bible that set the tone for our food tastes and helped build family traditions for both holiday and weekday meals alike.
In those days, that lone, cherished cookbook tended to be passed down from generation to generation, marked up, and liberally stained from years of use in the kitchen. The key component to that tome was trust, and that trust was based on the number of recipes made, eaten, and enjoyed out of it by our families over the years.
There is no reason why anyone would want to have just one cookbook to choose from anymore.
Depending on your food tastes and level of expertise, there are quite a few places where you can now go to find inspiration that'll get you excited about being in the kitchen again.
The Internet, of course, is a gourmet's paradise, teaming with specialty food and cooking sites, but it's the brave new world of cookbook publishing that's made being a casual cook so exciting these days. Gone are the days when it was difficult to track down authentic regional or ethnic food recipes. Gone, too, are those "old fashioned" cookbooks packed solid from front to back with text. Colorful photographs and graphic playfulness rule the cookbook aisles these days, supporting an array of titles packed with outrageously authoritative, tasty, tested recipes from around the world.
So, need some mealtime inspiration but don't know where to start? The Kitsap Regional Library is here to help.
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