Anonymous wrote:One of the books I cook most often out of recently is the NYT Easy Weeknight Dinners - many I have saved in my box on the NYT Cooking app, but this is easier with so many hits in one book.

Something else that may be helpful if you have a lot of cookbooks (which I do) is the CookShelf app - it requires a subscription for more than 10 books ($40), but it allows you to scan the bar code on your books, and then search all of them. For someone with hundreds of cookbooks like me, who also prefers to cook from cookbooks rather than the iPad, it's been amazing and had me rediscover many cookbooks.

PP - thanks so much for posting this. I love my cookbook collection, and searching and marking favorites seems like a great way to make it easier to use them.

I’m a fan of Alison Roman’s nothing fancy. Everything we have tried from there has been good.

All of the Moosewood Lodge cookbooks are amazing. Also -- Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything; Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat; Joshua Weismann's An Unapologetic Cookbook (I can't watch him on Youtube, he annoys me, but his recipes of how to do everyday stuff from scratch are good).

Sally's Baking 101 if he bakes.

One of the books I cook most often out of recently is the NYT Easy Weeknight Dinners - many I have saved in my box on the NYT Cooking app, but this is easier with so many hits in one book.

Something else that may be helpful if you have a lot of cookbooks (which I do) is the CookShelf app - it requires a subscription for more than 10 books ($40), but it allows you to scan the bar code on your books, and then search all of them. For someone with hundreds of cookbooks like me, who also prefers to cook from cookbooks rather than the iPad, it's been amazing and had me rediscover many cookbooks.

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference between the recipes in them? Or does he just like a book over an iPad/printed recipe?

As an experienced cook, internet recipes can range the gamut from published authors posting recipes to the millions of untried and unproven weird blogs (are those real?) and untested recipes random people posted to allrecipes.com.

Cookbooks have the advantage that their recipes are extensively tested and are more reliable. And some people do prefer having the book and not squinting at a screen.

I do find recipes online but I am very careful and only rely on proven names and cooks and recipes that are typically printed from a cookbook.

Another suggestion is Barefoot Contessa for everyday cooking. Straightforward yet impeccable. There's a reason why she is so popular and highly regarded.

As a new bride, I learned Indian cooking (actually mostly North Indian cooking) from Mrs. Balbir Singh's book. She was an ex-pat (UK based) and so many Indian ingredients were not available. She made do with what was available in UK in those days and the results were still authentic, delicious and easy.

Mrs.Balbir Singh's - Indian Cookery