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*This competition has now closed. Please see comments section for details of the winners.*
Discovering great food blogs from other parts of the world is one of my favourite things about this blogging lark. I love taking little peeks into the kitchens of Seattle, Melbourne, Singapore or the deep South. One of my favourite American food blogs is the brilliant Joy the Baker. Joy Wilson has a chatty and witty style and veers wonderfully between insanely indulgent baking recipes, and vital, nutritious salads and smoothies. I want her to be my friend, but not in a creepy way.
Her first book, the Joy the Baker Cookbook (£14.99; Hyperion), focuses on the former and is billed as 'a celebration of butter and sugar.' It's such a fun and original cookbook - I haven't had a chance to make anything yet, but I've stuck post-its on the peanut butter bacon cookies, Texas sheet cake and cinnamon rolls with buttermilk glaze to mention a few.
Pinch of Salt is giving away three copies of the Joy the Baker cookbook to UK readers. To enter, please leave a comment below, telling me what's your favourite cookbook from another country, and why. Closing date is Friday 29th June.
Good luck!
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We've just got Everyday Harumi so we can try some Japanese cooking. It looks deceptively simple!
Mine is actually one handed down from my mother. It's called A Good Spread and is a compilation of New Zealand rural ladies' favourite recipes - including one from my grandmother. I didn't actually know where most of Mum's amazing baking came from until she gave this to me last year. It's regularly updated and fantastic.
In 1990, my mother gave me a book called "Hungarian Recipes" which was dedicated "lovingly to our Hungarian Mothers". I love looking through it to find the food made by my grandmothers and then passed down to my mother. However, there are mystery ingredients like "oleo" that I have yet to translate...
I love Joy's blog too ( I get exactly what you mean about wanting to be friends, but not in a creepy way). My favourite is Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at home. Amazing, but also reminds me of the most fabulous impromptu dinner we had there a couple of years ago.
I love "Out of Kentucky Kitchens" by Marion Flexner written in 1949. The book is filled with party food such as Kentucky Derby Breakfasts - sound great don't they. I love a book with fun in mind.
but how does she stay so thin???? I have an American cook book on Smoothies and Sundaes that my step-mother bought me which came with 4 classic American Sundae dishes which I adore! x Nice prize!
I'm in love with the Cookie Dough Lovers Cookbook right now. I can never eat enough cookie dough.
My favourite is the Ottolenghi cookbook, full of fun, inventive, delicious and healthy recipes that are actually manageable (nothing worse than a recipe with a long list of ingredients you can't purchase anywhere).
Loving LOVING Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World! But clearly, I also love non-vegan cupackes..
So many great cookbooks out there it's hard to decide... Really like "Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes" as it contains recipes and little stories from many different places. Or, for a "proper" cookbook from another country, I'd go for an old-style cookbook of Slovenian food by Felicita Kalinsek. Finally got my own copy from a second-hand bookstore as my mum won't let me have hers.
I recently acquired the 'Ultimate Nepalese Cookbook' by Pemba Lama which I find an excellent source of new recipes.
I couldn't agree more about the absolute joy of coming across great food blogs so thanks so much for your Joy the Baker recommendation - duly bookmarked.
I'm torn between anything by Anna Thomas or Laurie Colwin as they both write so well. Cookbooks to be read in full and savoured. If I absolutely have to choose, then Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant by Laurie Colwin comes top.
Helen
Thanks everyone for entering. The 3 winners are...
...drumroll...
Kat, Sandy and The Beach Hut Cook. Congratulations - please email your address to me at pinchofsaltlondon(at)gmail.com so the publishers can send out your prize.
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