Monday, May 14, 2007

Spot-On: Going for Silver

My mother gave me a copy of the first edition of The Silver Palate Cookbook for Christmas the year it came out and it quickly became my go-to book for recipe ideas, as it did for many other cooks. A couple of years later The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook was published, followed in turn by The New Basics Cookbook. By this time my siblings also had copies and we took to calling them the White Book (because of its white spine), the Red Book (because of its red spine), and the Big Book (because it was big).

You can read the complete article at Spot-On.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Ed Bruske said...

Not only do I have all the books, I've been to the store.

I still remember this as my intro to blueberry vinegar (who could forget chicken livers with blueberry vinegar?) The eggplant "peasant caviar" is a standard hors d'oeuvre in our house, and I continue to make the "Chicken Marbella," although I've kicked it up a notch.

5/15/2007 01:29:00 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

Ed,
The Chicken Marbella appears to have been the biggest hit in that book judging from comments in Gather -- I don't think I've ever made it though.

The recipe I still use from it is my variation on their hummus.

5/15/2007 04:27:00 PM  
Blogger Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

I found it on the flea market here in Geneva (Switzerland) and I love this book, because it is very useful...

5/16/2007 06:52:00 PM  
Blogger Kevin said...

Rosa,
If you can find the others, they're worth having too.

5/16/2007 08:04:00 PM  

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