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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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Lobster at Home

By Jasper White
Scribner - 1998

This is a beautiful book, written for a niche market. The author, Jasper White, is a winner of the James Beard Award, and so I suspect that all the recipes work well.

The seven chapters cover basic cooking techniques, a primer on lobsters, soups etc, appetizers and small dishes, salads and sandwiches, main courses, and recipes from famous chefs.

For me, the primer was the most interesting part of this book. It covers the biology of lobsters (a bit), catching, how to buy them, considerations for selecting a good lobster, and anatomy.

Buying lobsters is an investment. This cookbook encouraged us to use a new cooking technique, and gave us enough information to go to extra lengths to cut the lobsters in half (alive!).

If I lived in New England, and purchasing lobster was something I did occasionally, this would be an excellent book to own. As it is, I'm pleased to have it reside in the house where I stay when I visit.