-"Personalidades En La Cocina" Mexican celebrities wrote this cook to raise funds for the 1985 earthquake. This was my first cookbook when I was about 7 or 8, I liked it mostly because of the illustrations by Jose Luis Cuevas. I learned to make mole, and many other things from this book.
-"The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook" by Kate Macdonald. I learned lots of baking from this book, specially shortbread cookies. 1985

:( and I had another one I used a lot when I was 10, I learned how to make leavened bread, spaghetti, and cauliflower with anchovies... but I dont remember the name... I think it was a 70's yellow color with semi-hippy drawings

I am wishing to stock up on good cookware.

I came back to Canada after a school year in Germany and was sad about the price of "nice" cookware in Canada. The Euro and the Canadian dollar are not as far in value as they used to be, yet a Le Creuset or Staub will cost three times more than in Europe or even the US. I am going back to school in Germany for a semester and want to stock up (maybe go to France, if the variety is better).

I will have a budget of 450 euros to buy cookware (I am ok with paying for a little extra luggage, since I usually travel very light). Could people recommend some good European (preferably German or French) brands? I've been researching online Woll titanium cookware, Fissler pots, and Friedrich Dick knives.

My wish-list is:
-An enameled cast iron dutch oven, around 5 Q
-a pressure cooker, around 5 Q (I don't want to use aluminum, but clad in steel is fine)
-a 2Q saucier (light or medium weight)
-a chef's knife
-a paring knife
-a stainless steel stovetop expresso maker

Did you buy your Moritaka in Vancouver? I see I can order them through a Toronto retailer, but I prefer to not shop online.

Holisticlady, I was also considering taking off the chipping enamel from a set of 1960's Japanese pots and pans. It seems like a waste to not try to reuse them. But I guess the others are right, its cheaper to buy new bare cast-iron cookware. I think I will take the chipping enamel ones to the recycling plant.