On our last podcast, Simon and I listed our “essential cookbook” lists which has been a simmering idea on both the podcast and this website since it’s inception. The idea of an “essential” list of cookbook is as insane as it is fun to discuss. For better or worse we hashed out what we considered a need-to-have cookbook and what was especially special to us. Listen to the podcast here.
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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 35 – Cookbooks For Christmas
Shawn and Simon have already given their ideas for cheap holiday gifts… Now that we are all on the home stretch, maybe it’s time to find that tome for a loved one who loves to cook! Lots of recomendations for beginners, intermediates and people who have lost their minds and want to bake. Happy Holidays everyone!!!
Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca
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Music by John Palmer
Show notes and Shout Outs:
- Jamie’s Dinners by Jamie Oliver (For the beginner!)
- The three-book series by Jeffery Alford and Naimoi Duguid (For the Coffee Table!)
- Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli (For the Intermediate with passion!)
- The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown (for the aspiring baker!)
- RIPE Cookbook by Ann Kask which proceeds go to Diabetes Canada (featuring yours truly!)
- Rebar, Modern Food Cookbook by Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz
- Tartine by Chad Robertson
- Ready for Dessert by David Leibovitz
- Baked, New Frontiers in Baking By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
- My Pokemon Cookbook By Victoria Rosenthal
- And the necronom nom nom
- Bonus Mentions: Flavour Bible By Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg and Anything by Hank Shaw
More Cookbooks!!!!
2019 Post Holiday Gift Guide – Audiobooks About Food

I know what you’re thinking; “Post-Holiday Gift Guide” sounds like an article that took a little too long in the oven, maybe a deadline or two got missed and now it’s past time to be of any practical Christmas shopping use. Well, I assure you dear reader that I’ve got a good reason why you’re reading this now instead of a week or two prior to the holidays, just stay with me.
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