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On Our Bookshelf – Great Cookbooks for Beginners

by Paul on July 14, 2009

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Lately I’m finding myself more and more interested in cooking. I’m more of an exact amounts kind of guy, so I started with baking. That’s going well…except for the waistlines of everyone around us. I realized one day as I obsessed over the thought of making a cream cheese pound cake, that my baking skills (while enjoyable) weren’t super useful. It was time to learn to cook actual meals…and with no schools teaching fundamentals of cooking (I’m at a super basic level) in Singapore, I had to turn to books. [keep reading…]

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On Our Bookshelf – The Man Who Ate Everything & Kitchen Confidential

by Paul on July 4, 2009

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As the site grows and readers join us, we realized a need to grow our culinary vocabulary. We felt reading more than just other food blogs would help increase our vocabulary and give us an insight into other foods, trends, chefs, locations, etc. So Joanna picked up a couple older books we’ve heard a lot about over the years on her last trip to Bangkok. Both of these aren’t quite cutting edge, but are proven favorites in the culinary world.

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