In article >,
Boron Elgar > wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:05:37 -0000, "Phil" > wrote:
>
> >I am looking for a cook book that contains different recipes from around the
> >world including Asian, European, South American dishes. Can anyone recommend
> >me a good all round book. I am in the UK but can obviously order online from
> >Amazon etc.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> I've always liked The New York Times International Cookbook,
> by Craig Claiborne.
>
> I cannot say that it has dishes from every single country, but the
> recipes will be wonderful, the instructions easy to follow and the
> results dee-lish. Granted, you will need to convert your recipes to
> Left Pondian measurements, but since the book is out of print, but
> readily available used, the trade-off is terrific.
>

Craig's book is very heavy on French cooking--I'd say at least half the
recipes in the book are traditional French ones. I think that's because
it came out in the early 70's. He didn't discover Southeast Asian
cooking until the mid 70's. His last compilation of recipes (The Best
of Craig Claiborne) is a bit more balanced.

I was perusing the Seattle branch of the Library of Congress Cookbook
Collection (i.e., ours) for some good titles. Here's what we have:

Three cookbooks by Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid--Seductions of Rice,
Flatbreads and Flavors, and Home Baking

Two cookbooks by Steven Raichlen--The Barbecue!Bible and Big Flavor
Cookbook

Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant--vegetarian international

Global Grilling, by Jay Solomon. This book has our quintessential jerk
chicken recipe

The Book of Jewish Food, by Claudia Roden; the International Kosher
Cookbook--more than gefilte fish

Mark Bittman has a new international cookbook out, but I haven't seen it
yet.

Cindy

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