My Favorite Culinary Resources: Handpicked for You

YouTube Channels

  • French Guy Cooking : Adorable home cook who tackles technical culinary challenges like home pizza, Beef Wellington and the world’s best mashed potatoes.

  • Emmy Made in Japan : Emmy makes experimental and delicious baked goods, with a Japanese treat twist. She also tastes a lot of exotic candies and sometimes insects!

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Sites

  • smittenkitchen.com : funny writing and bulletproof recipes from a tiny NYC kitchen.

  • americastestkitchen.com : the Consumer Reports of food. They test recipes to give you not just the WHAT but the WHY of how good cooking works.

  • food52.com : classy recipes, nice videos.

  • The Forest Feast : Erin Gleeson hand illustrates her very simple vegetarian recipes with beautiful watercolors.

Cook Books

Forage. Harvest. Cook. : One of my favorite wild food cookbooks, her recipes are inspired and very doable. Some recipes are for 21 and over.

The Joy of Cooking : A comprehensive encyclopedia of recipes that every home cook should lean on. Find a secondhand copy anywhere.

Anything by food writer Ruth Reichl: A New York Times food critic and editor of Gourmet magazine, she writes charming and brutally honest stories of her life in food.