Name your favorite cookbook

[Anonymous]

"Healthy South Indian Cooking" is my go-to book.

[Anonymous]

Not sure what my favorite is but my go to is Joy of Cooking. We are pretty gourmet cooks, yet Joy of Cooking covers just about everything. We have several editions though and sometimes have to go back to the 1960s version for some recipes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am surprised people still buy cookbooks. I am an internet junkie. I have found so many fabulous recipes just by using Google.

Me too. Although I'll still buy a cookbook now and again for fun.

[Anonymous]

I also love getting cookbooks when I go on vacation - those local cookbooks - one of our favorite recipes comes from a Newport, RI cookbook (probably put out by the Junior League).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, why are you rolling your eyes at OP's innocuous post??

I like Ottolenghi's books and Claudia Roden Middle Eastern Food.

These are in my top 5 as well. I also like the Smitten Kitchen cookbook a lot.

[Anonymous]

"the complete book of blender recipes"... best cheesecake and latkes recipes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Other than that, anything by America's Test Kitchen.

+10000

Was going to say the same

[Anonymous]

Another vote for The New Best Recipe from Cook's Illustrated (http://www.amazon.com/Best-Recipe-Cooks-Illustrated-Magazine/dp/0936184744)

[Anonymous]

I love my Barefoot Contessa books, but honestly the ones I go to most often are the Betty Crocker cookbook, which pretty much tells me how to make anything, and from which all fancier recipes emerge, and my grandmother's notebook, which has every good recipe worth having. Also it is littered with little helpful cooking hints cut from magazines and taped beside recipes.

[Anonymous]

Joy of Cooking
Six O'Clock Scramble

[Anonymous]

The Labuvitch Cookbook
My mother's old Haddassah Cookbook "Tried and True"

[Anonymous]

I get many cookbooks from the library for inspiration. Then I use the internet for most other recipes. I love Allrecipes.com the reviews are invaluable.

[Anonymous]

I love Olives and Oranges (Sara Jenkins) aand Everyday Italian (Giada diLaurentis) because the recipes always turn out. I can make something for the first time for a dinner party and feel confident that it will taste good.

Cook This Now (Melissa Clark) is my favorite to read, because Clark's "narration" is warm and personal and casual.

I use Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" as my general resource for things like how long to roast something, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Other than that, anything by America's Test Kitchen.

+10000

The 30-minute series have kept my marriage and family together...

[Anonymous]

Joy of Cooking - it has all the basics and then some. I use the internet too - epicurious, etc.