When I think of the braille cookbooks, I think of the Our Special cookbooks, Cooking without Looking, When the Cook Can't Look, Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, and I think as a teen, a lady gave me one with a hard bound cover on it and I think it was called The Braille Cookbook; I no longer have many of these, but they were wonderful and helpful to beginning cooks.
-----Original Message----- From: cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Nicole Massey Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 4:10 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org; 'Judy Cowart' Subject: Re: [CnD] recommended cookbooks Braille is not an option for me -- too many years of playing hand drums before I lost my sight. That's why I look for cookbooks and other media in digital formats. And if anyone has any of the ones I referenced in such formats, I'd love to know where to get them. -----Original Message----- From: cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Judy Cowart Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:51 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Subject: Re: [CnD] recommended cookbooks Oo a lot of these books sound great. Can't wait till they are available. I'm a cook book collector but a lot of mine are in braille. I got them from National braille press. They have a pamphlet of cook books they can send all ya have to do is call and ask for it. Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Massey" <ny...@gypsyheir.com> To: <cookinginthedark@acbradio.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [CnD] recommended cookbooks The Joy of Cooking is a must. It's more than a cookbook, its' a cooking textbook, with a lot of technique in it. Betty crocker's cookbook is a similar one. Get it through Bookshare. If you can find it the 1918 Fannie Farmer cookbook is wonderful. It's the last one she put together before her death, and it has a lot of the basics in it. There was a wonderful little book my ex found called The Can Opener Cookbook. It's vintage, from when housewives were just starting to use a lot of canned goods, but it kept things simple. If you can find it, scan it and make it available for Bookshare so we can have access to it, and if I find it first (mine got stolen) I'll get it up there. I love the Foods of the World series from Time-Life. They haven't reissued them yet, but hopefully they will some day. If they don't I'm working on collecting them. There's a great book called "Recipes from the backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Jars" that has a lot of those things you find on a package, and I'm planning on scanning my copy and putting it up on Bookshare as soon as I find my big book of recipes. I recently found a great book on Indian (dots, not feathers) cuisine called Curry: A tale of Cooks and Conquerors, by Lizzie Collingham, which both deals with how East Indian cuisine came about and some of the recipes typical of the cuisine. I haven't made any of them yet, but it was a great listen. NLS has it, and it's downloadable on BARD if you have a digital player For those of a zymurgical bent, (wine making) there's Acton & Duncan's book, Making Mead. I love this book, and I hope to get it scanned soon. It's written from a British perspective, but other than the fact that Heather honey is hard to get in the Americas it'll work. I've made a lot of good honey wines from it. The wimemaker's recipe handbook, by Raymond massaccesi is also interesting, and it's another one I hope to have available soon on Bookshare. And for something different there's Cider by Annie prouslx and lew Nichols, which is a great book on making ciders of all kinds. For something without the octane I got a lot out of Cresswell's book, Homemade Root Beer and Soda Pop. It's another one I plan to scan soon and put up on Bookshare. Sorry that a lot of these aren't blind accessible yet, but if I can get a bit of sighted assistance I can locate them and run them through the trusty HP Scanjet and they'll be around for y'all to benefit from soon. -----Original Message----- From: cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org [mailto:cookinginthedark-boun...@acbradio.org] On Behalf Of Nancy Martin Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:17 PM To: cookinginthedark@acbradio.org Subject: [CnD] recommended cookbooks Hi everyone, I'd like to know what cookbooks and cooking gadgets you find the most helpful. If you'd rather write me off list, that's ok. Thanks in advance, Nancy Martin Oklahoma _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list Cookinginthedark@acbradio.org http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
