The Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show

Seafood of Southeast Asia

Seafood of Southeast Asia
By Alan Davidson

Binding:  Softcover

Type of Cookbook:  The first 50% of this book is a catalogue of fish and shellfish species native to Southeast Asia.  Simple black and white illustrations accompany each type of fish and shellfish.  The remaining 50% covers a listing of 150 authentic recipes listed by country.  Recipes from Burma, Thailand, [...]

Savoring Southeast Asia

Savoring Southeast Asia
By Joyce Jue

Binding:  Large Softcover

Type of Cookbook:  A “Best Hits” of Southeast Asian cuisine, this book glimpses into the cuisines of Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.  And, I do mean glimpse.  While 130 recipes may sound comprehensive,  spread over 9 cuisines it’s just enough to give you a [...]

Taste of Atlanta — Atlantic Station

Taste of Atlanta’s 2-day outdoor food festival will take place on the streets of Atlantic Station this weekend Saturday, October 11th and Sunday, October 12th.

Over 70 Atlanta Area restaurants will be participating in this event.  Live cooking demonstrations, live entertainment, street performers, food samples(available for purchase with taste coupons) and a Kid’s Avenue are available [...]

Atlanta Greek Festival — Now thru October 5th

The Atlanta Greek Festival offers Greek music, dancing, food, pastries, coffee (Greek & regular), drinks and shopping for Greek specialty items.  Jewelry, gold, ceramics, books, cookbooks, clothes, and other handcrafted items will be available in the various gift shops. 

One of the highlighs at the festival this year is a special preview of Georgia Shakespeare’s production of Antigone.  This special sneak [...]

Decatur Book Festival 2008

This Labor Day weekend 250 authors will be visiting Decatur to attend Decatur’s Third Annual Book Festival and Street Fair.  So, come visit Decatur’s square to meet one of your favorite authors, eat some festival food, check out the street fair and try out one of Downtown Decatur’s great restaurants.  There are a number of great restaurants [...]

Cucina of Le Marche

Cucina of Le Marche
By Fabio Trabocchi

Binding:  Hardcover

Type of Cookbook:  Regional Italian dedicated to the Marchesan cuisine

Photography:  The photography consists of a handful of family photos and two sets of gorgeous color photo inserts.

Level of Cooking skills required:  basic to a handful of moderately advanced recipes (ex: porchetta)

Contents:  Over 200 pages of recipes listed by course and [...]

660 Curries

660 Curries
By Raghavan Iyer

Binding:  Identical books with identical cover art available in both hardcover and paperback

Type of Cookbook:  Indian

Photography:  Limited photography, only a handful of color food photography at the begining

Level of Cooking skills required:  basic to intermediate

Contents:  660 recipes — most recipes offer regional information, cooking tips and serving suggestions

Pros:  This book offers a seemingly endless source [...]

Classic Home Desserts

Classic Home Desserts
By Richard Sax

Binding:  Hardcover with dust jacket

Type of Cookbook:  Classic, old timey and historic desserts cookbook

Photography:  Limited, color food photography

Level of Cooking Skills Required:  simple to intermediate

Contents:  350 recipes of varying lengths — English baking is strongly represented.   Many of which have been passed down through the generations to find new life in [...]

Prashad – Cooking with Indian Masters

Prashad – Cooking with Indian Masters
By J. Kalra and Gupta Singh

Binding:  Hardcover with dust jacket
Type of Cookbook:  Indian
Photography:  Limited color food photography and b/w photographs of the authors
Level of Cooking Skills required:  A range of basic to intermediate skills required
Contents:  212 pages of recipes broken down into several categories and also by local regions
Pros:  Authentic [...]