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Cookbook of the Month
Every month the community chooses a cookbook to highlight. Discuss the current (and past) picks with other Chowhounds, share which recipes you've tried or want to try, and give us your review. Click here for an archive of past COTMs.
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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking: Meat and Seafood [CoTM Sept 2006 and Nov 2013]
September 2006 Cookbook of the Month: Please post your reviews of meat and seafood recipes from Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking here. Please mention the name of the recipe yo...
February 2021 COTM: Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine
Welcome to Lidia Bastianich Month! Please use this thread to post reports on recipes from Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook. I...
March 2021 COTM Announcement – Jubilee by Toni Tipton-Martin
Our next cookbook of the month will be Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Marton. We can use this thread to share our excitement, questions, and thou...
March 2021 COTM VOTING
Welcome to another Cookbook of the Month (COTM) vote! Here are our nominees! I included links to a profile on each author. ☆Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Ton...
February 2021 Cookbook of the Month VOTING
Welcome to another Cookbook of the Month (COTM) vote! Here are our nominees! I included links to a profile on each author, the author's web site, and a selection of recipes available online. JU...
March 2021 Cookbook of the Month NOMINATIONS
Good evening, Cookbook of the Month community! It's time to start reflecting on what we would like to cook together as (for many of us) the snow and ice thaw into our first signs of springtime! Whi...
February 2021 COTM: Lidia online recipes & other print sources
Welcome to Lidia Bastianich Month! Please use this thread to post reports on recipes from Lidia's online recipes or recipes from books other than Lidia's Italy, Lidia's Favorite Recipes, Lidia's M...
NOVEMBER 2020 COOKBOOK OF THE MONTH (COTM) - David Lebovitz website
Here we are almost 8 months into Covid quarantine, and the majority of us decided it makes the most sense to stick with an online source for our COTM. We voted for David Lebovitz’s blog as our Nove...
February 2021 COTM: Lidia's Favorite Recipes
Welcome to Lidia Bastianich Month! Please use this thread to post reports on recipes from Lidia's Favorite Recipes: 100 Foolproof Italian Dishes, from Basic Sauces to Irresistible Entrees. If y...
February 2021 COTM: Lidia's Italy in America
Welcome to Lidia Bastianich Month! Please use this thread to post reports on recipes from Lidia's Italy in America. If you are the first one to report on a recipe, please reply to the main post...
June–August 2018 Baking/Dessert Cookbook of the Month: SWEET
Welcome to our Baking/Dessert COTM for June, July, and August 2018, SWEET, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. We’ll use this thread for all reports and discussion of recipe in the book. * Please...
February 2021 Cookbook of the Month: LIDIA BASTIANICH MONTH
Brrrrrr! Writing this in the middle of a nor'easter, which only makes this month's cozy Italian food sound more tempting! Wishing all a warm welcome to our February 2021 edition of Cookbook of th...
APRIL 2017 COTM: DINNER, reports on CHICKEN & MEAT
Use this thread to post reports on the following chapters from DINNER: CHICKEN (p. 22-61) and MEAT: PORK, BEEF, VEAL, LAMB, DUCK, & TURKEY (p. 64-95) If you are the first to report on a recip...
COTM JapanEasy: Big Rice & Noodles; Basic Sauces & Condiments
Welcome to Cookbook of the Month! Please use this thread to post reports on recipes from the following chapters of JapanEasy: Big Rice & Noodle Dishes, page 124 Basic Sauces & Condiments, page...
July 2017 COTM: DEEP RUN ROOTS, reports on BLUEBERRIES, SWEET CORN; CUCUMBERS; TOMATOES (pp. 190-281)
Use this thread to report on recipes from the following chapters from DEEP RUN ROOTS: BLUEBERRIES, SWEET CORN; CUCUMBERS; TOMATOES (pp. 190-281) ****INSTRUCTIONS: If you are the first to repo...
Fall Quarter 2020 Baking Cookbook of the Month: MIDWEST MADE
Welcome to our Fall Quarter Baking COTM, running through the end of 2020, MIDWEST MADE: BIG, BOLD BAKING FROM THE HEARTLAND by Shauna Sever. We’ll use this thread for all reports and discussion of ...
Most Unanimously Successful COTM?
I don't often follow these cookbook of the month discussions, so I have a very specific question: which cookbooks have appeared to provide the most unanimously and consistently successful recipes? ...
October 2020 COOKBOOK OF THE MONTH - Nominations
Welcome to October’s Cookbook of the Month nomination thread. Here it is fall, and we’re still in this crazy situation. Not sure about where you live, but my library is still not fully open. That, ...
December 2020 Cookbook of the Month VOTING
Welcome to the voting thread for our December 2020 COTM. Amid the nominations, two emerged with the most mentions, a general-interest cooking website with a wide range of recipes and contributors, ...
January 2021 Cookbook of the Month VOTING
Welcome to another Cookbook of the Month (COTM) vote! Our top nominees for our January selection are both books! It's been a while, since we've cooked from websites or blogs for the past several ...