Episode 10: The Guys Talk Cookbooks, Part 2

Hot Dogs and Caviar

Hi, everyone! No one asked for it, but here it is! The pulse-pounding, head-spinning (wait, that was pulse-weakening, head-pounding) conclusion of our two hour discussion of cookbooks you need to read, along with a bonus discussion of ones you probably shouldn't waste too much of your hard-earned money on, at least at first. Warning: opinions!

Timestamps!

1:35 Nate’s Brother is Definitely a Sociopath: a Story

8:05 Our Questions to the Listeners

13:12 On Food and Cooking (McGee)

16:01 The Man Who Ate Everything (Steingarten)

18:35 The River Cottage Meat Book Fearnley-Whittingstall

20:27 The Professional Pastry Chef (Friberg)

22:35 Ma Gastronomie (Point)

23:37 In Search of Perfection/Further Adventures… (Blumenthal)

26:00 Under Pressure (Keller)

28:50 Charcuterie (Polcyn/Ruhlman)

30:00 Chocolates and Confections (Grewling)

33:00 Nate and Jesse’s Over-Rated Book List

33:34 Cooking School Textbooks and Why They Aren’t All That

36:38 Dornberg and Page, Purveyors of Dangerous Crutches

42:30 Escoffier, an Interesting Historical Document

45:20 The Grandma Cookbooks