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Your guide to food inspirations and nutritional information.
Last Updated: May 18, 2012 URL: http://guides.mesacountylibraries.org/cooking Print Guide RSS UpdatesShareThis

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Books

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Martha's American Food - Martha Stewart
Call Number: New 641.5 S851m
ISBN: 9780307405081

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Yum-O! - Rachael Ray
Call Number: New 641.555 R264
ISBN: 9780307407269

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How to Cook Everything - Mark Bittman
Call Number: New 641.5 B624h
ISBN: 9780470528068

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Food Network Magazine 1,000 Easy Recipes - Food Network Magazine
Call Number: New 641.5973 F686f
ISBN: 9781401310745

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My Pizza - Jim Lahey; Rick Flaste
Call Number: New 641.82 L183m
ISBN: 9780307886156

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4 Ingredients Gluten-Free - Kim McCosker; Rachael Bermingham
Call Number: New 641.5 M131f
ISBN: 9781451635713

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Slow Cooking - Antony Worrall Thompson
Call Number: New 641.5 T468s
ISBN: 9781845336417

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Weeknights with Giada - Giada De Laurentiis
Call Number: New 641.5 D342w
ISBN: 9780307451026



 

General Food and Recipe Websites

  • AllRecipes
    Find recipes or submit your own. With lots of ways to search, user ratings and comments, informational articles and an online recipe box, you're sure to return to this site.
  • Food Network
    The tv channel's companion website is full of recipes, information, tips and fun ways to search. Choose options like "In Season Now" or "Quick and Easy."
  • Epicurious
    With a motto like "for people who love to eat" and a partnership with Bon Appetit and Gourmet, this comprehensive food site has it all, from "how to cook" to "entertaining" to building a shopping list.
 

For Android/iPhones - Mobile App

From Allrecipes comes Dinner Spinner. This app offers thousands of recipes with photos. Search by course, ingredient, time to make and more. The app is free! Android, iPhone.

Epicurious is just as handy and inspiring. Find recipes and combine the ingredients to one shopping list. Recipes are pulled from popular magazines, cookbooks and renowned chefs. Also free! Android, iPhone.

 

New Resource - Online Cooking & Nutrition Lessons!

Universal Class offers online, instructor-led self-paced continuing education classes. With your library card, you can take up to 5 classes at a time. Register now to sign-up - you can begin at any time. You can take classes such as:

Cooking and Baking 101

How to Can, Freeze, Dry and Preserve Food

Pie Baking 101

Weight Loss Management 101

Nutrition 101

Cake Decorating 101

And many more! To begin, select the link above. Create an account. Browse the "Cooking" category, sign-up for a class, and get cookin!

 

Magazines

The Library subscibes to many magazines that you can check out, with the exception of the current month's issue. Look for these titles, sure to be helpful with your design inspirations:

Better Homes and Gardens

Bon Appetit

Cooking Light

Every Day with Rachel Ray

Family Circle

Food Network Magazine

Good Housekeeping

Grit

Martha Stewart Living

Southern Living

Sunset

Wine Enthusiast

Also, several of our branches have a magazine exchange. Magazine donations are welcomed and all are free for the taking. Browse these spots too!

 

EBooks

EBooks are electronic books. You can download ebooks through the library's wesbite. Visit our downloadable media page to learn more about the process. You can read ebooks on a variety of devices - you can read them off the computer, on a tablet (like iPad), an iPhone, on a smartphone (with Android), and of course, on most ereaders. Take books with you wherever you go!

Food Dictionary

  • Food Dictionary
    Unfamiliar with an ingredient your recipe calls for, a cooking method, or other culinary terms? You'll find it in this easy-to-use dictionary.
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