Low Cost Kindle Versions of Cookbooks

I’d like to start a thread of low cost Kindle versions of cookbooks you recommend. I’ll start with 2, $1.99 options.

The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts
by David McMillan et al.
Link: https://amzn.com/B004JN1CMY

Flour + Water: Pasta
by Thomas McNaughton et al.
Link: https://amzn.com/B00JI58UA0

Got any others?

Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi
by Yotam Ottolenghi et al.
Link: https://amzn.com/B005CRY2O6
Currently $2.99

We have this book in hardcover and have made some delicious things from it (including the eggplant recipe on the cover).


Tartine Bread
by Chad Robertson et al.
Link: https://amzn.com/B00F8H0FNW
Currently $2.99

Note that these prices tend not to last long - the last two $1.99 cookbooks that I purchased on Kindle quickly returned to regular price.

This is a great idea. I’m a kindle (eReader) devotee. That said, pretty much the only genre where I still enjoy a physical book is the cookbook genre.

Still, may have to buy the Tartine Bread kindle version.

I ran out of space for physical cookbooks so I started down this path. 3 clear advantages:

  1. I can menu plan at work or at the grocery store
  2. hyperlinked index
  3. searchable

Those allow me to use my kindle books more than my physical books.

If course if you buy cookbooks as coffee table books or to impress friends, kindle aren’t much help.

This is intriguing to me. I have never bought a whole eCookbook, though I’ve used lots of online recipes. Most of my cookbooks are full of notes in the margin - forgive my ignorance, is there a way to replicate those annotations in an electronic version?

you can highlight and make notes on all kindle books then reference them in a separate menu. Makes jumping to notes very efficient!

Good thread idea.
I just picked up Gjelina for like $5 the other day.

Edit: make that, $3 https://www.amazon.com/Gjelina-Cooking-California-Travis-Lett/dp/145212809X

How is that? recommended?

Nice topic and recommendations. I just searched cookbooks in Amazon Kindle and there are over 30 pages of free cookbooks – many look not that useful, but still. (The free may also be tied to Kindle Unlimited). Then there are a bunch of 47 cent books in the original Russian!

Yes. I like it thus far. Veg-centric, slightly challenging, but mostly stuff home cooks can pull off. New-Cali style.

Bar Tartine: Techniques & Recipes $2.99 Amazon.com

Bar Tartine - winner. Wow is that a cool book…Thanks!

What a great idea! Just picked up bar tartine and tartine bread. Also grabbed Ruhlman’s Twenty – this was a cookbook I was always intrigued by but never thought enough of to pay full price.

https://www.amazon.com/Ruhlmans-Twenty-Techniques-Recipes-Manifesto-ebook/dp/B0064BXCEK/ref=lp_156154011_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1478969518&sr=1-3#customerReviews

Scott

I downloaded a sample of this book and I just can’t get into it. It seems to suffer from the same issue as his other work. It imposes a weak meta argument about cooking sprinkled with not very great recipes. I passed.

Fwiw, to me this is one of the most valuable threads on WB that I’ve seen in a while.

Thank you! I stopped visiting the site for a few months because I had posted about sake and no one would engage on it. They just wanted to accuse people of various things. It made me sick so I left.

Roots: The Definitive Compendium with more than 225 Recipes
by Diane Morgan et al.
Link: Amazon.com
$3

The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes
by Dale DeGroff
Link: Amazon.com
$3

Tartine Book No. 3: Modern Ancient Classic Whole
by Chad Robertson
Link: Amazon.com
$3

Jacques Pépin Heart & Soul in the Kitchen
by Jacques Pépin
Link: Amazon.com
$4

Paul keeps making me spend $