Call for 10 essential cookbooks and a giveaway

12 Comments

• scparks  on  June 13, 2012

  1. Joy of Cooking, take your pick as to which year!
  2. No Need to Knead, Suzanne Dunaway
  3. The Cake Doctor Book, Ann Byrn
  4. The Cuisine of California, Diane Rossen Worthington
  5. Hershey's, any of the many Hershey's Cookbooks…the covers alone look like chocolate.
  6. Grilling and BBQ, Cooks Illustrated Best Recipe Series
  7. Twelve Months of Monastery soups, Brother d'Avila- Latourette
  8. Cooks Illustrated Cookbook, Cooks Illustrated
  9. Cookbooks of the World–Chinese, Italian, Provincial French, Spain, Germany volumes, Time Life Series
  10. Latest best friend–Cake Doctor Bakes Gluten Free, Ann Byrn

• Jane  on  June 13, 2012

  These are the 10 that I put up on Food52 then instantly thought "What, no Jamie Oliver?". I suspect I will remember more I should have listed – but then, what to drop?

  Cook This Now by Melissa Clark;
  Feast by Nigella Lawson;
  Appetite by NIgel Slater;
  Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin;
  The Ottolenghi Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi;
  Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan;
  All About Braising by Molly Stevens;
  The New York Times Essential Cookbook by Amanda Hesser;
  The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz;
  Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian

• billroper  on  June 13, 2012

  Mastering the Art of French Cooking – Julia Child
  The Art of Simple Food – Alice Waters
  Michel Guerard's Cuisine Gourmande
  Alastair Little's Keep it Simple
  The Lee Brother's Southern Cookbook
  Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
  America's Test Kitchen Menu Cookbook
  George Perrier's Le Bec-Fin Recipes
  The Big Fat Duck Cookbook – Heston Blumenthal
  il viaggio di vetri – Marc Vetri

  Ack! I can't believe that I cut Ottolenghi and Pepin!

• adrienneyoung  on  June 13, 2012

  Julia Child: Mastering, vol 1. Dorie Greenspan: around my French table; Marcella Hazan: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking; Richard Sax: classic home desserts; Yotam Ottolenghi: Plenty; hensberger's and Kaufmann: the ultimate rice cooker cookbook; Thomas Keller: Bouchon; Grace Young: Breath of a Wok; Fuschia Dunlop: land of plenty; Patricia Wells: Salad as Meal.

• sir_ken_g  on  June 14, 2012

  Delicioso! The regional Cooking of Spain – Penelope Casas
  Hot and Sour Salty and Sweet – a culinary journey through SE Asia.
  Japanese Cooking a Simple Art –Tsuij
  Classic Indian Cooking – Julie Sahni
  Land of Plenty – Fuchsia Dunlop
  Eating Koran – Clelia Hae-Jin Lee
  The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking – Mai Pham
  Unmentionable Cuisine – Calvin W. Schwabe
  All About Braising – Molly Stevens
  Fanny Farmer– 11th Edition (1965) – Wilma Lord Perkins

• ellabee  on  June 14, 2012

  Joy of Cooking (Irma Rombauer) … Vegetarian Epicure (Anna Thomas, counting bks 1&2 as one) … Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (Deborah Madison) … Authentic Mexican (Rick Bayless) … Classic Indian Cooking (Julie Sahni) … Silver Palate &/or SP Good Times (Sheila Lukens, Julee Rosso) … Couscous and Other Good Food of Morocco (Paula Wolfert) … Art of Simple Food (Alice Waters) … The Victory Garden Cookbook (Marion Morash) … The Essentials of Cooking (James Peterson)

• Breadcrumbs  on  June 14, 2012

  In no particular order and with apologies to all the other books I treasure!

  1. Stir – Barbara Lynch
  2. Molto Gusto – Mario Batali
  3. Italian Grill – Mario Batali
  4. Mexican Everyday – Rick Bayless
  5. Off The Shelf – Donna Hay
  6. Martha Stewart Cookbook, Collected Recipes for Everyday – Martha Stewart
  7. La Mia Cucina Toscana – Pino Luongo
  8. 1000 Italian Recipes – Michele Scicolone
  9. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook – Ina Garten
  10. Vegetable Love – Barbara Kafka

• schenck65  on  June 14, 2012

  How to Cook Everything (Bittman)
  Marcella's Italian Kitchen (Hazan)
  Appetite (Nigel Slater)
  The Art of Simple Food (Waters)
  Chez Panisse Vegetables (Waters)
  The Best Recipe (Cook's Illustrated)
  Fanny Farmer Cookbook
  The Way to Cook (Child)
  The Gourmet Cookbook (yellow)
  On Food & Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen–I know it's not a cookbook, but it's essential (McGee)

• okcook  on  June 16, 2012

  No particular order but these books are the ones I turn to for trusted recipes with great flavours
  Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, D. Madison
  The Complete Asian Cookbook, Charmaine Solomon (fantastic…on my second copy)
  The New Best Recipes, Cooks Illustrated 2004
  The Complete Middle East Cookbook, Tess Mallos
  The Way to Cook, Julia
  The New York Times Cookbook 1961, C. Claibourne
  The Fine Art of Italian Cooking, Giuliano Bugialli
  Ad Hoc at Home, T. Keller
  Mexican Kitchen, R. Bayless
  Weber's Big Book of Grilling, Jamie Purviance and Sandra McRae

• sabrina7  on  June 16, 2012

  Americas Test Kitchen family baking book and Americas Test Kitchen family cookbook (all of their cookbooks are amazing), Good to the Grain: Baking with whole grain flours, Rachael Ray's Classic 30 minute meals, The art and soul of baking, Vegetarian cooking for everyone ( I am not a vegetarian, but wanted to cut meat out of some of my families diet. this book is great), Pie in the Sky ( I live in high altitudes, this book has recipes and tips for adjusting all baked goods recipes), Quinoa 365, the best vegetables recipe by cooks illustrated, and Under the Tuscan Sun (this is not a cookbook, but does have some amazing recipes throughout).

• Lauraine  on  June 16, 2012

  The Constance Spry Cookbook, The Cooks Companion by Stephanie Alexander, Forgotten Sklls of Cooking by Darina Allen, The Asian Cookbook by Charmaine Solomon, Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child et al., Vegetables from
  Amaranth to Zucchini by Elizabeth Schneider, The Savory Way by Deborah Madison, Silver Palate, The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden, Cooking at Home Karen Martini.

• dmihic  on  June 17, 2012

  The New Best Recipe Cookbook, How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman, The Best Recipes of the World By Bittman, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan, Baking by Dorie Greenspan, Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi, The Frugal Gourmet On Our Immigrant Ancestors, Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by Lewis and Poliafito, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten.