The best cookbooks according to the experts
August 30, 2015 by DarcieMaking a list of the best
cookbooks might be a recipe for starting an argument, but in a
recent article from The Guardian, a few intrepid chefs and
food writers responded to the challenge. The listing of
essential cookbooks was a response to the Prue Leith cookbook
controversy – one of several such responses. Leith’s dismissal of
modern cookbooks led many top chefs and authors to champion the
cause. In the article, a handful of authors talk about the
cookbooks most important to each of them.
Raymond Blanc chose French writer and scientist Édouard de Pomiane’s Cooking in Ten Minutes, which was considered avant garde when it was published in 1930. For Blanc, this “is the most beautiful book of cuisine ever, cooking with speed and purity. He was a visionary, definitely ahead of his time; he saw that life was speeding up.”
Claudia Roden has inspired countless people to try alternative cuisines. So who did she turn to for inspiration? Her inspirations were two of the most influential cookbook authors of all time, Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. Roden feels that David “was writing so beautifully, adding such value to the recipes – it made it feel as though it all really mattered.” Grigson was an even bigger influence on Roden, as Grigson “put what she called ‘background’ to a recipe.” Others who weighed in for the article include Jack Monroe and Rachel Roddy.
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