Prompt: Favorite Cookbook

[runpunkrun]

When I first went gluten-free I read a lot of cookbooks, and I quickly developed an eye for what I did—and didn't—want from them.

I was looking for:

• a picture for (nearly) every recipe
• measurements in volume and weight
• storage advice
• a thorough index

I was not interested in:

• preachifying
• complicated (or multiple!) custom flour blends

Over a period of a year, I checked out around a hundred cookbooks from my library...and bought four. Still, I'm grateful that, when I had to join the club, I had so many books to choose from.

Do you have a favorite gluten-free cookbook? Come talk about it in the comments, share your cookbook requirements, or write up a review of a favorite cookbook and post it to the comm.

Comments

[shadowkat]

It is amazing how many of them include the preachifying and complicated flour blends..isn't it?

I liked Nom Nom Paelo...lots of pictures, great recipes and good index.

[runpunkrun]

That's one of the few I didn't check out! Maybe because it didn't have much (any?) baking in it?

And there is just so much preachifying. As well as oversharing. I want a cookbook, not a list of your entire family's food allergies. One day those kids are going to grow up and be like, "Mom, why did you tell the entire world what happens when I eat [allergen]????"