Posts by leswhaley

What is the best nonstick pan out there, besides Teflon?   Please don't say aluminum clad, cooper, or cast iron. I already have those.   I am thinking diamond, titanium, or hard-anodized aluminum or hard-anodized...

Your post is interesting, but I would like the opinion of someone who has used both diamond and titanium pans (preferably the Woll brand) and can tell me what they have had better experience with. Because I'm going to be...

That's interesting. Have you personally used either one of these to cook with? I was of the understanding that Chef Gordon Ramsey uses the Woll Titanium pan so I assumed it must have something going for it. Plus, Woll titanium pans get...

What makes the best cooking surface, diamond or titanium? I am trying to decide what kind of pan to buy, diamond or titanium. Probably will buy Woll.   Which surface is best overall in terms of being durable, nonstick, able...

Wow, this feedback has been a help. I'm so grateful I found this site. I have had a chance to look through the book some more and I agree that it would probably be useful primarily as a reference book. I wonder, however,...

I have the English version. I checked it out of the local library to review it. I'm more into Italian cooking than French, so I may end up passing on it. Your reply was very helpful, thank you.

Well, maybe that was a dumb question. I've looked through the book and it seems like a sacred text and that the recipes in it might be the standards by which all others should be judged. Yet, I don't know and don't want to spend...

I own Olive and Caper and it is one of my favorites out of my whole cookbook collection. It is an outstanding work and introduction to Greek Cooking.

I am thinking about buying Larousse Gastronomique and I would like to know if anyone has an opinion about the recipes in this book? How do they tend to come out compared to recipes from other well-known cookbooks?...

All my stainless steel cookware is Revere with the copper bottom, so I guess that is what I was referring to when I said "disk-bottomed." Maybe Revere copper-bottomed is not actually "disk," I'm not sure.