Cookaholics Bulletin Board

Interesting article in the NY Times today on why the cookbook Jerusalem has become so hot - found the part about social media esp. interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/dining/jerusalem-has-all-the-right-ingredients.html?pagewanted=1

Ordered.

Backordered, actually. Amazon will ship it in a couple of weeks (I think Amazon.co.uk will ship immediately but at higher cost).

That was really interesting. I was salivating reading Mary's thread without knowing anything about the book. I may need to break my no new cookbook moratorium for this one.

I posted this same article in Mary's thread under cookbooks. GMTA Lindsay ! I ordered this from my library and should be able to get it this weekend. Looking forward to it!
Nance

On the other hand, I made my first recipe from the book this week, and it didn't turn out so well. The barley risotto. It wasn't bad, just boring and not worth making again.

Fuzzy, try again with another recipe, I think you will find something.

I am using the book again this weekend, a main dish salad that is similar to Salad Niçoise. The potatoes are cooked in turmeric, the tuna is confited, and it has harissa, olives, anchovies, bunch of other stuff and eggs. It is supposed to be very hot this weekend so it narrowed my choices (rumor has it we don't need a.c. in Switzerland). As a starter, I think I will grill some flatbreads and make some hummus and other easy crap (suggestions welcomed here).

Pete, I have the UK version of the book. It uses British terms and measurements so you probably did well to wait a couple weeks. It also has a different cover, cloth instead of the sensual, padded one described in the NYT article. I guess the rough cloth could also be sensual, if you roll that way.

My tip is to try the green bean salad.

Mary

Have to be honest. I do not like the padded covers. Pepin's new book has one, too. What's with that?

fitzie

Mary,

Oh, sure I wasn't going to stop with just one try. Tonight I made the zucchini-tomato salad. That was much better. Still not "I've got to copy this down" good, but certainly tasty.

I have to echo Alina's post....I have banned myself from buying another cookbook (although Eat Your Books has made it a lot more convenient to use what I have), but I may have to order this one.

I caved. I loved Jerusalem (the city) so that was my excuse. I did get it for $15.98 new shipped. Saw it at Costco today for more. I was going to do Amazon prime, but it was more expensive and longer wait. First non-digital book I've bought this year.