December 2008/January 2009 COTM Voting Thread

[MMRuth]

First, my apologies for not putting this up yesterday, but I was cooking!

Secondly, I've decided, after much contemplation while cooking, to go ahead and announce that revisiting previous COTMs is the December 2008/January 2009 COTM. This is because there were 17 suggestions for that option, compared to 8 for various Ina Garten books (some of which were made by posters who also suggested doing previous COTMs), and then some single votes for other books. I sincerely hope that this doesn't seem too autocratic! My secondary reason is that otherwise the voting thread would have been between this option, and some grouping of Ina Garten books. Four of those, I think, were suggested (out of her six books), but with all the discussion about how to do the previous COTM, there was really little or no discussion of the actual books, whether people wanted to do all of them or not - and even putting up the group of four of them might lead to a rather unwieldy COTM. So, my thought on that is that if posters remain interested in doing Garten's book, resuggest another month and let's have more of a discussion about them, which ones to include, etc.

So, on to the voting. Please post your top three selections from the first 12 books that we did (list below) in order of preference and in ALL CAPS - the author's name is sufficient. I will then tabulate the results, giving 3 points for the first choice, 2 for the second, and 1 for the third, and pick the top two choices. Here's the list of books from which to choose:

Sept - Marcella Hazan, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/325712

Oct - Molly Stevens, All About Braising
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/330177

Nov - Rick Bayless, One Plate at a Time
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/339027

Dec - Dorie Greenspan, Baking from My Home to Yours
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/347476

Jan - Judy Rodgers, Zuni Cafe Cookbook
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/355995

Feb - Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid, Hot Sour Salty Sweet
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/366679

March - Leite's Culinaria
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/376081

April - Claudia Roden, Arabesque
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/387069

May - Suzanne Goin, Sunday Suppers at Lucques
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/397079

June - Edna Lewis, Country Cooking
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/406983

July - Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/416938

August - Chris Schlesinger & John Willoughby
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/427007

[MMRuth]

Results:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/573788

[Gio]

I'm so excited to learn which books were chosen I can't even count the votes. But, what a great selection we'll have no matter what the outcome will be. You're right TDQ, "so many cookbooks, so little time.

[MMRuth]

Such suspense! I'm waiting to finish my first cup of coffee to make sure I do the calculations correctly!

[The Dairy Queen]

RECOUNT RECOUNT. HAHAHAH! Happy spreadsheeting.

~TDQ

[Gio]

Remember... no hanging chads. Unless it's Shad, of course.

[The Dairy Queen]

So excited. *waiting waiting waiting* for the results hoping we don't have to have an arduous and lengthy recount like we do for the Minnesota senatorial race.

Actually, nerd that I am, I did my own tally. I'm so excited to cook from the books chosen, assuming MMR arrives at the same count I did. Actually, even if I tallied wrong, I don't think we can go wrong with everyone's most favorite past COTM's. Woo hoo!

Oh, but wait, there's still a week or two left for Alice Waters, which I am also loving (but not getting enough time to cook from, sadly, due to sudden additions to my schedule and, now, with Thanksgiving out-of-townness approaching. Still, it's not like I have to stop cooking from it or posting about it on Dec 1.). So many cookbooks, so little time. And shelf-space.

~TDQ

[MMRuth]

TDQ - do you mind emailing me with your results, so that I can double check mine against yours?

Thanks!

[The Dairy Queen]

Done.

~TDQ

[greedygirl]

RODEN
GOIN
HAZAN

Thanks!

[rabaja]

1. GOIN
2. RODGERS
3. HAZAN

Thank you!

[karykat]

1. ZUNI
2. GOIN
3. HOT SOUR . . . .

[pitu]

Leite
Rodgers
Goin

thx!

[hohokam]

1. HAZAN
2. LEITE
3. STEVENS

[JasmineG]

My top three are: BAKING FROM MY HOME TO YOURS, SUNDAY SUPPERS AT LUCQUES, AND ZUNI.

But ALL ABOUT BRAISING is a close fourth! So hard to pick just three! I'm really excited that we're doing it this way, this will be fun.

[grantham]

1) Judy Rodgers, Zuni
2) Marcella Hazan, Essentials
3) Rick Bayless, One Plate

[moh]

Darn! I can't remember what I voted for on the old thread, and I can't find the old thread. Anyhoos, here I go:

1. LEITE'S CULINARIA
2. EDNA LEWIS
3. ZUNI

[pikawicca]

BRAISING, ZUNI, ARABESQUE That was easy!

[jsaimd]

LEITE'S
BAYLESS
STEVENS

[stevuchan]

(1) ZUNI
(2) LUQUES
(3) HAZAN ESSENTIALS

[yamalam]

in no particular order:
LEITE'S CULINARIA
GOIN- SUNDAY SUPPERS
STEVENS- ALL ABOUT BRAISING

[MMRuth]

Well, no particular order is fine, but just so you know, you'll add 3 points to Leite's, 2 to Goin and 1 to Stevens. So, if you want to change, let me know!

[yamalam]

Aha, the devil really is in the details, shame on me for skimming. I'll stick to that order, thanks for checking:)

[JoanN]

1. Goin
2. Rodgers
3. Stevens

[cpw]

1. GOIN - SUNDAY SUPPERS
2. STEVENS - ALL ABOut BRAISING
3. RODGERS - ZUNI

Thanks MMRuth!

[Katie Nell]

1. LEITE'S CULINARIA
2. MARCELLA HAZAN, ESSENTIALS OF CLASSIC ITALIAN COOKING
3. JUDY RODGERS, ZUNI CAFE COOKBOOK

[NYchowcook]

1 - STEVENS, Molly -- Braising
2 - GOIN, Suzanne -- Lucques
3 - RODGERS, Judy -- Zuni

[Karen_Schaffer]

1. BRAISING
2. ZUNI
3. LUQUES

Good decision to cut out an extra round of voting, imho. Thanks, as always, for organizing this!

[oakjoan]

ZUNI
LUCQUES
BRAISING

[Rubee]

STEVENS - ALL ABOUT BRAISING
GOIN - SUNDAY SUPPERS
RODGERS - ZUNI CAFE

[Rubee]

Oops - sorry, I didn't put them in order

revised:
GOIN
RODGERS
STEVENS

[DanaB]

(1) RODEN
(2) GOIN
(3) RODGERS

[NYCkaren]

1. MOLLY STEVENS
2. MARCELLA HAZAN
3.CLAUDIA RHODEN

[JoanN]

Oy gevalt! This is too hard. I've already changed my mind five times in the past two hours. When will voting end? How much more time have I got to change my mind some more?

[MMRuth]

Too funny! Let's say Wednesday the 19th.

[Jane917]

1. HAZEN
2. BAYLESS
3. ROGERS

[LulusMom]

Not autocratic at all. Made sense given the way the voting thread was going. Thanks as always.

1) STEVENS
2) ALFORD & DUGUID
3) GOIN

[Carb Lover]

1. GOIN
2. RODEN
3. STEVENS

Not autocratic at all! I appreciate your distillation and approach to the voting. Thanks for tabulating all these responses.

[mirage]

1. HOT, SOUR, SALTY, SWEET
2. ALL ABOUT BRAISING
3. ZUNI

[newfoodie]

1. STEVENS
2. HAZAN
3. GREENSPAN

Thanks MMRuth!

[MMRuth]

Sorry all - I've fixed it to read December and January - thanks for the reminder - too late a night, too little coffee thus far this morning!

[The Dairy Queen]

Ack! it's a jolt to see "2009" in the title. We're almost out of the first decade of the new millennium. Where did the time go?

Thanks again!

~TDQ

[Gio]

Mille grazie, MM

[Gio]

JUDY ROGERS, ZUNI
LEITE'S CULINARIA
SUZANNE GOIN, LUCQUES

Wondering about the 2 month span, as well.

[jen kalb]

My votes are for (1) ZUNI
(2) LUQUES
(3) HAZAN ESSENTIALS

MMRUth, what happened to the December AND January concept? I thought most people were voting for a two month COTM too.

[The Dairy Queen]

1) STEVENS
2) HAZAN
3) RODGERS

Thank you, MMRuth!

~TDQ