415012 Mon Jun 25 14:04:10 -0700 2007 9 33 Food Media and News 0 2692578 Can anyone point me to a good cookbook review website, blog, list, whatever? Mon Jun 25 14:04:10 -0700 2007 12023 Hungry Celeste 1 2692629 I don't know if this would be helpful at all, but, whenever I am interested in looking up feedback for a specific title, I look at the "reviews" for that title on Amazon.com. This can be hit or miss, but I've had good luck with it in the past. ~TDQ Mon Jun 25 14:12:58 -0700 2007 2692578 12005 The Dairy Queen 2 2692647 Thanks, I do find those helpful, but you have to start with a specific title/item. I'm more interested in a roundup of "everything food" published in a given time period. Sort of like a subject-oriented roundup review...Booklist, SchoolLibrary Journal, etc. do this sort of thing for library book-buyers, but I don't have access to those, and they don't exclusively cover food writing. Mon Jun 25 14:16:11 -0700 2007 2692629 12023 Hungry Celeste 3 2695065 Okay, BookList (published by the American Library Association) does have online content, but you have to be a subscriber to access it. You can get a free, 30-day trial, though: http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=home I browsed the subject section, and it does have a listing for "cookery". Tue Jun 26 08:05:24 -0700 2007 2692647 12023 Hungry Celeste 4 2695094 And now for my "duh" moment: if you have access to a university library's electronic resources, you can get full-text of Booklist, SLJ, et al through the Ebsco database. Tue Jun 26 08:13:18 -0700 2007 2695065 12023 Hungry Celeste 1 2694335 Cookbook reviews do seem rarer and rarer - I used to rely on the reviews on Epicurious (they reviewed them almost weekly between 1998 and 2005, dropped off dramatically in 2006, and seem to have stopped entirely now), the New York Times (which also seems to never have reviews anymore... or rarely, at best), and Cooks Illustrated (also seem to have stopped completely). LA Times still has them (I don't think they're weekly, though, but I'm reading them online so I don't know if they're running reviews that don't show up online). Saveur does too, but you can't find them on their website (you can't find anything on their website). That said - while lacking any cookbooks published after 2006 (and with very spotty coverage in 2006), Epicurious is probably still the best of the sites I've seen. It does group books by cuisine, and they give estimates on "percentage of recipes you'll actually use", a list of some of the best recipes in each book, and full text for a couple of those recipes. http://www.epicurious.com/features/cookbooks/ Mon Jun 25 23:45:29 -0700 2007 2692578 44059 daveena 2 2694852 Thanks for the epicurious heads up....I never even knew that it featured reviews. Tue Jun 26 07:06:34 -0700 2007 2694335 12023 Hungry Celeste 2 2699703 I actually wrote to Epicurious to ask what had happened to the reviews when they suddenly seemed to stop - I was so upset! I guess all good things must come to an end. They told me they'd be doing "seasonal" reviews, which seems to mean maybe 2 a year. I miss the reviews a lot. Wed Jun 27 11:14:33 -0700 2007 2694335 56762 LulusMom 1 2694424 I am glad you asked this question because I cannot find a consistent source of impartial cookbook reviews not written by nitwit bloggers anywhere. Tue Jun 26 02:20:29 -0700 2007 2692578 41118 inuksuk 2 2695015 Here's a blog site; haven't read enough yet to see if I like it much, but it's a start: http://www.101cookbooks.com/newcookbooks/index.html Tue Jun 26 07:50:58 -0700 2007 2694424 12023 Hungry Celeste