Reddit reviews The Silver Spoon New Edition

• Taste of Home Best Loved - A great down-to-earth cookbook with homestyle meals that mom and grandma used to make.
  
• The Silver Spoon - Originally in Italian, hundreds of awesome, authentic Italian dishes using a massive array of ingredients.
  
• Gourmet Magazine Cookbook - I got my copy at a brick and mortar bookstore many years ago, and it may be out of print now. But it is full of elevated dishes that are easily obtainable at home.
  
• Dinner for Two - For years it was just my wife and I. This was the perfect little cookbook for us. Additionally, ATK has a similar cookbook. This isn't the one we have, but one like it. It's basically their recipes scaled down for two people.
  
• Bocuse Gastronomique - It's like an awesome cooking class on paper from the master himself.
  
• Bocuse - An awesome collection of recipes from Paul Bocuse.
  
• ATK Cookbook. I probably cook more from here than any other. I used to buy the new version every year with the newest recipes, but now I have the online subscription.
  
• The Flavor Bible that someone else linked.
  
  
  I could keep going but I should stop. So many great ones out there.

The Silver Spoon is a massive Italian cookbook with pretty easy to read instructions and big fancy pictures. I got one as a gift its has some pretty good recipes in it that range from easier to harder recipes. Its about 30 bucks on amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Kitchen/dp/0714862568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1450126627&sr=8-1&keywords=the+silver+spoon+cookbook

The Silver Spoon is a mammoth of a book. around 2000 pages if I remember right. I had it recommended to me countless times but didn't realise just how amazing of a deal it was until it landed on my doorstep and I found out you could believably beat someone to death with it.

Huge book, categories for EVERYTHING. My only criticism is that sometimes it uses terminology that might not be the best for beginners and there's not many guide pictures. But that's nothing a bit of googling around can't sort out. I'd definitely recommend getting it for your collection.

Silver Spoon is the best for basics/reference. I've got a copy in both English and the original Italian. It's the modern bible while larousse gastronomique is outdated imo.

Cooking by Hand was a big inspiration early in my career

Recently I like cookbooks that are entertaining beyond just pretty pictures of food.

The Dirt Candy cookbook. The graphic novel style is awesome and the recipes are good.

Also, A Super Upsetting Book about Sandwiches

And of course Thug Kitchen

The Silver Spoon is like the Italian version of Joy of Cooking. It might be a good one for you to consider for your next project. There are a lot of editions so you can find copies that are pretty cheap.

"The quintessential cookbook." – USA Today

The Silver Spoon, the most influential and bestselling Italian cookbook of the last 50 years, is now available in a new updated and revised edition. This bible of authentic Italian home cooking features over 2,000 revised recipes and is illustrated with 400 brand new, full‐color photographs. A comprehensive and lively book, its uniquely stylish and user‐friendly format makes it accessible and a pleasure to read. The new updated edition features new introductory material covering such topics as how to compose a traditional Italian meal, typical food traditions of the different regions, and how to set an Italian table. It also contains a new section of menus by celebrity chefs cooking traditional Italian food including Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Tony Mantuano, and Rich Torrisi and Mario Carbone.

Il Cucchiaio d’Argento was originally published in Italy in 1950 by the famous Italian design and architectural magazine Domus, and became an instant classic. A select group of cooking experts were commissioned to collect hundreds of traditional Italian home cooking recipes and make them available for the first time to a wider modern audience. In the process, they updated ingredients, quantities and methods to suit contemporary tastes and customs, at the same time preserving the memory of ancient recipes for future generations.

Divided into eleven color‐coded chapters by course, The Silver Spoon is a feat of design as well as content. Chapters include: Sauces, Marinades and Flavored Butters, Antipasti, Appetizers and Pizzas, First Courses, Eggs, Vegetles, Fish and Shellfish, Meat, Poultry, Game, Cheese, and Desserts. It covers everything from coveted authentic sauces and marinades to irresistible dishes such as Penne Rigate with Artichokes, Ricotta and Spinach Gnocchi, Tuscan Minestrone, Meatballs in Brandy, Bresaola with Corn Salad, Pizza Napoletana, Fried Mozzarella Sandwiches and Carpaccio Cipriani.

These were cookbooks I found continually helpful while working at a fine-dining Italian place:

La Cucina: The Regional Cooking of Italy - 900 pages with a background on each recipe. Very helpful for research and creating dishes.

Encyclopedia of Pasta - Invaluable if you're doing fresh pasta. Provides a thorough explanation of each shape.

The Silver Spoon - a monster with 2000 recipes, but a great reference book. I think it claims to be Italy's oldest cookbook(?)...

I think these are a great starting point if you're in a serious kitchen - best of luck!

Once you have some basics down, you might look around for a copy of this cookbook. It's sort of the bible of Italian cooking in Italy, and while it has some complicated recipes, there are also plenty of simple but classic dishes, especially in the appetizers. soups and salad sections.

http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Phaidon-Press/dp/0714862568
The most amazing Italian cook book, the author went to little villages and talked to real Italian cooks and got the truest traditional methods and recipes

I have three books that I carry with from job to job.

1. Prudhomme Family Cookbook
   
   
2. The Silver Spoon
   
   
3. Modern French Culinary Art
   
   

3 spørgsmål:

• Hvor kendt er du i et køkken.
  
  
• Har du nogle preferencer til hvilket køkken (hvilke lande) du vil have kogebøger om?
  
  
• Er der noget loft for hvad du vil give?
  
  For mig, der er den vigtigste bog at have, når vi snakker kogebøger, det er Kokkebogen. Det er en bog med alle de gode gamle klassiske retter i dansk køkken samt klassisker fra rundt omkring i Europa. Dertil får du alt den viden, som du har brug for, omkring alle dyr, udskæringer, køkkengrej og værktøj osv osv. Min gamle kokkelære på hotel og restaurations skolen sagde, at man med denne ene bog, kunne åbne en restaurant.
  
  God mad, let at lave er også en rigtig god bog. Den er fyldt med masser af fantastiske opskrifter, som er skide god, hvis man ikke gider lange og besværlige processer.
  
  Sølv Skeen Er den italienske udgave af vores kokkebog, bare uden alle de tekniske begreber. Jeg tror der er også 1000 opskrifter i denne bog (den er kæmpe. Min udgave har ødelagt et tørrestativ.)
  
  Frøken Jensens kogebog er en gammel klassisker, og en hver kok med respekt for sig selv, har sådan en i sit køkken.
  
  Jorden rundt på 80 retter er en lidt ukendt en til samlingen. Jeg synes personligt at den er skide god, fordi der er retter og inspiration at hente, som man normalt ikke ville falde over.
  
  Men igen, så handler det jo meget om, hvad du gerne vil have. Du kan også hente inspiration på youtube, hvor Gordon Ramsay har sine Ultimate cooking course, som er en rigtig god madserie ( men det er fyldt med foodporn dog).

love reading good cook books too!
It's a little older, but when I moved of my parents house I took the Anna Thomas cook books.
The other one I like to page thru is the Silver Spoon
do you have a favorite?

The Silver Spoon
https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Kitchen/dp/0714862568

Get a nice bottle of Barolo and do a gift basket for her. If she liked Rome include all the ingredients to make a Spaghetti alla Carbonara. Since she liked Sicily get her some aged pecorino to grate on top. Also, toss in a copy of the Silver Spoon so she can whip up her favorite dishes whenever she likes.

Yes yes yes yes. This bad boy has all kinds of great bechamel - and other sauce - recipes.

The silver spoon is largely considered the go-to italian homestyle cookbook.

http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Phaidon-Press/dp/0714862568/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1419952727&sr=1-1&keywords=silver+spoon

I recommend this cookbook: The Silver Spoon New Edition https://www.amazon.com/dp/0714862568/ref=cm_sw_r_api_Uoo4yb5HMXSBF

Translated from Italian, 1000's of recipes. Get a reference copy for you kitchen, spend some time getting to know Italian seasonal non-tomato based cuisine in depth so you don't have to think on your feet when in order comes in.

Silver spoon. I've been taking a lot of recipes from it lately. It's considered "Italian" but it's the furthest thing from Olive Garden you'll ever see in respects to Italian. A lot of things are simply prepared but have immense flavor. I made the green risotto for our seven fishes night and it was great! I made the bucatini with red pepper sauce and that was amazing. I've made a few fish and beef recipes too, their lasagna is amazing. It has a lot of things most people haven't heard of but the book makes them extremely approachable if you collect all the ingredients. I used to be not very big on using cookbooks but I've had this book for a year and recently it's become a favorite of mine.

The one thing I do have to say is that you need to treat the recipes in a true Italian manner where spaghetti isn't the only dish but a filler before your protein. Almost none of the pasta dishes have protein (except one of my favorites anchovy and breadcrumbs) so you serve almost all of them as a small side dish. My edition has a section in the back where about a dozen chefs designed a menu with recipes not in the book but that you can only find in there. I've really wanted to pick a menu and do it one night for some friends.

https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Spoon-New-Kitchen/dp/0714862568