Which cookbooks (classic or modern) should be in every home chef's collection?

[Anonymous]

I have a ton of cookbooks. I buy them at used book sales whenever I find them. The cookbooks that I use the most are the Frugal Gourmet cookbooks. I also get a lot of use out of Martha Stewart's cookbooks. I also have the Betty Crocker cookbook and the Pillsbury cookbook and use them a lot for baking.

[Anonymous]

Joy of cooking
Mastering the art of French cooking
Americas test kitchen - any of them. I like their baking cookbook.

[Anonymous]

We have a LOT of cookbooks, but the ones that get used the most, by both DH and me, are:

* anything America's Test Kitchen (including 30-minute recipes, slow cooker cookbook, light & healthy meals, and comfort food makeovers)
* Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
* Evan Kleiman's Cucina Rustica and Cucina Fresca
* Ratio (mentioned above)
* The Food Thesaurus, which helps figure out how things go together if we're cooking from the pantry or with leftovers

[Anonymous]

I have a lot, but my go-to's are Joy of Cooking, America's Test Kitchen Best Recipe, and ATK Family Cookbook (their version of the Betty Crocker).

Because I can't eat wheat, I have also found the Gluten Free Bible to have really good recipes - easy and way less involved than ATKs gluten- free one and the recipes always turn out great.

Don't have Smitten Kitchen book, but I do pull recipes off the blog.

[Anonymous]

I use a microwave cookbook to look up times for microwaving foods, e.g. rice or beets.
My husband has a grill bible for reference.

Most of the time, though, I cook without recipes with the ingredients I have on hand. If I need to find one, I use the Internet, primarily Epicurious.

[Anonymous]

I have not bought any cookbooks in a long while. The next one will be America's Test Kitchen.

I recommend following oldies: Japanese Cooking A Simple Art, Chinese Kitchen by Eileen Lo, Joy of Cooking and Moosewood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a LOT of cookbooks, but the ones that get used the most, by both DH and me, are:

* anything America's Test Kitchen (including 30-minute recipes, slow cooker cookbook, light & healthy meals, and comfort food makeovers)
* Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
* Evan Kleiman's Cucina Rustica and Cucina Fresca
* Ratio (mentioned above)
* The Food Thesaurus, which helps figure out how things go together if we're cooking from the pantry or with leftovers

PP. I also get lots of online recipes from The Kitchn, Food 52, and Smitten Kitchen. I like food.

[Anonymous]

Tyler Florence - ultimate cookbook, barefoot contessa,

[Anonymous]

If you like Middle Eastern food, I recommend Arabesque: a Taste of Morocco, Turkey, & Lebanon by Claudia Roden and Couscous and Other Good Good from Morocco by Paula Wofert.

Martha Stewart's Appetizer Handbook is beautifully photographed and is extremely comprehensive even if you never make half the things listed.

[Anonymous]

I use Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything a lot.

I also like ATK books.

I find Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone a really good source for all vegetables, whether as a main dish or side.