The tastiest cookbooks according to the Barts Boekje team
Wellbeing often lies in many small things that together ensure, yes indeed, your well-being. And it just so happens that it works exactly the same way with a good recipe: various ingredients that combine to form something delicious on your plate. If you happen to enjoy cooking as well, then the party is, of course, complete.
One person reads a cookbook from cover to cover as if it were a novel, another uses it mainly as a coffee table book, and yet another wonders if there are even people who *really* read a cookbook (yes, there are). And how could it be otherwise? There is an incredible amount of deliciousness to choose from. For elaborate cooking, for a quick bite, for inspiration to whip something up yourself, or simply to make your mouth water.
A selection from the cookbook collection of Team Barts Boekje.
Books you reach for when you simply need to eat, but don't settle for anything else. regular foodNot too complicated, but enough inspiration to put something better on the table during the week than your usual fare.
- Easy Wins – Anna Jones
- Something from Nothing – Alison Roman
- Cook This Book – Molly Baz
- How I Cook – Ben Lippett
- Crisis Cooking – Mara Grimm
Incidentally, there is Crisis Cooking There is also a website, where you can already spot a few recipes. Including the Michelin-starred mackerel, as shown on the right.
Pasta, plenty of olive oil, a table full of food topped off with (another) glass of wine. For when your body is in the Netherlands, but your mind is already in Italy.
- Toscanini – Maud Moody & Leonardo Pacenti
- Italian – Sergio Herman
- Pan – Tim Siadatan
- Wild Fig & Fennel – Letitia Clark
Don't feel like cooking yourself after all? Then, in the case of Toscanini, of which the eponymous restaurant in Amsterdam is located, also always make a reservation and take a seat. At least as pleasant.
From India to Indonesia and everything in between. Books for when you want to go more exotic than your average potatoes-meat-vegetables.
- dishoom – Shamil Thakrar, Kavi Thakrar & Naved Nasir
- Mixture – Ixta Belfrage
- Great Indonesian Cookbook – Beb Vuyk
- Lugma – Noor Murad
In the Great Indonesian Cookbook, the recipes are numbered. In our view, a solid rijsttafel is not complete without numbers 353, 181, 576, 321, 387, and 233.
Setting the table, lighting candles, and above all, making way too much food. This category is for those dinner parties where you are already in the kitchen in the afternoon and actually get really happy doing so.
- Table for Two – Bre Graham
- Bistrotier – Stéphane Reynaud
- Pien's Dinner Club – Pien Wekking
- Green fodder and all other feed titles of – Tobias Camman
Not everything is easy to make, and Tobias understands that perfectly. That is why you can find cooking videos and more from him on YouTube. This way, you sometimes understand his dishes just a little bit better. Score? Five Tobiases.
