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clockworkdance t1_ir287jt wrote

"picture books for adults" -- I love that!

I don't cook very much and I struggle with anything beyond basics, but I am always checking out random color-photo-laden cookbooks by women from the library, partly for the pictures and partly because, exactly, I love the personal stories they include to introduce each recipe.

I've collected a few of Susan Branch's cookbooks, just because her hand-drawn illustration style is so perfectly whimsical (and her recipes aren't half-bad, either). It's not summer until I've cracked open The Summer Book.

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EBLS t1_ir4fbpu wrote

Yes! I came here to say I love that, too.

I was gifted the Tartine and Christina Tosi books (mostly baked goods) and they both have great writing, anecdotes and photos to look through. They’re all very involved recipes though so I don’t often feel like I can tackle one of the recipes in the moment. They require a bit of prep & shopping.

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