The Bon Appetit Cookbook by Barbara Fairchild
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Book Reviews of The Bon Appetit Cookbook
Book Review: Bon Appetit Cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter-in-law wanted this as one of her Christmas presents. It is a great book and the price was too good to pass up. Shipping was quick. Thanks Amazon!Book Review: Perfect
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the perfect book if you're a fan of the Bon Appetit magazine. It has everything and is user friendly.Book Review: Good Cookin'
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave this as a gift & the person (a co-worker who likes creative cooking) absolutely loves it...Book Review: Bon Appetit cookbook
Summary: 5 Stars
This cookbook is as good as its name. The free subscription coupon is a nice bonus.Book Review: Are you a browser or a searcher?
Summary: 4 Stars
Epicurious... an interesting website indeed. It's one of the leading English-language recipe databases on the web, containing the collected wisdom of years of Condé Nast food magazines, and is likely the largest collection anywhere of New American cuisine and the influences that have shaped it. Overall, if you're a serious cook, you've probably checked their database at least once or twice for a recipe. But Epi has a few problems -- for one thing, it can be complicated to surf, as like many such websites it's got a lot of frills to it. It's also a resource hog to load -- even if you have a fast connection, it will behave strangely and slowly on a system without enough memory. So the question is, is having it in print a good thing?
Because that, at least in part, is what this is, or at least the Bon Appétit magazine section. Most if not all of these recipes will be found on Epicurious, and they all seem to be pretty yummy and diverse -- like I said above, mostly New American and the influences thereof. Don't mistake it for a general kitchen bible -- there's a lot of material in here, but it's more a browsing book in the vein of the CIA Cookbook than a replacement for something like The Joy of Cooking or The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. The recipe intros are expanded from what's shown on the website, and the pictures it includes are typically impeccable food porn.
It certainly does make a nice print book. The real question is whether it's a good value proposition. I think that depends on two factors: first, whether you're a browser or a searcher, and second, whether you have the bandwidth to get these same recipes online reliably. For the browser cook and the pleasure reader, then, this is a great choice (and, possibly, might include a magazine subscription, if Condé Nast hasn't withdrawn the promotion by the time you read this). If, on the other hand, you want just the recipe as quickly as possible, Epicurious is much cheaper. Up to you, really.