My Favorite Dictionary

The New Food Lover's Companion; Fifth Addition

By: Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst

Why do you NEED it?

Curiosity? 

Haven't you at some time in your life be curious about something related to cooking? Say you wanted to look up what thyme was? Or Barbecuing? This book helps with just that! It gives you the chance to discover more of the culinary world.

Culinary School??

And I'm sure if you have been or are in culinary school you at time have just not been able to quite figure out what something is. You think and think and think, but you just can't quite get your finger on it. Just being able to have something else as a reference or go to (besides your notes) is very helpful!

Interested in Food? 

Maybe you just have some interest in food and want to know more? Well your in luck, this book will compel you further pursue this interest. I know that when I'm at the book store any book that is about anything I'm even mildly interested in I will check it out!

Other Books by the Authors

Breads

Desserts-Sensational

The Joy of Cookies

Dictionary of Cooking Terms
The Wine Lover's Companion
The Cheese Lover’s Companion

Prices

$10.69 Rakuten.com
$12.57 Barnes and Nobles
$12.01 Amazon Books

My first recommendation

Take 5 Ingredients

By: James Tanner

Why I like it? and YOU should too!

Simplicity 

Everything in his book is very easy to make and easy directions to follow. And the fact that he has 95 recipes in this book makes it EVEN BETTER! And in most of his recipes they are very common ingredients that you can buy at any grocery store.

Price for recipe's ingredients

Not only are there 5 to 10 ingredients to each recipe, the ingredients are generally inexpensive (depending on what recipe you choose) For example: there is a crab linguine recipe (that you can view on Epicurious.com) and we ALL know how expensive crab is these days. 

Great pictures and directions

His book has amazing detailed pictures that make your mouth water and help increase the chance that you WILL make it. Also his instructions for his recipes are extremely easy to follow.

My favorite Recipes

Green Curry

I love this curry recipe especially because it's so delicious and simple! I made it a couple times and every time it turns out perfect. It makes it so that you don't have to make curry paste from scratch and it only has 6 ingredients.

Gnocchi with Bacon & Peas 

I have not made this recipe yet, but I have made gnocchi before and it is very easy. And it only has six ingredients (including salt and pepper). I mean who can resist a recipe with BACON in it?

Other Books by the Author

• For Chocolate Lovers - Published 5 October 2006, co-written by Chris Tanner
• Ice Cream - Published 25 March 2008, co-written by Chris Tanner
• James Tanner Takes 5: Delicious Dishes Using Just 5 Ingredients - Published 30 September 2010
• Old Favourites, New Twists: 100 classic recipes with a difference - Published 11 July 2013

Price Range for the Book

$5-10 (Depending on where you look)