What are your top five favourite Cookbooks?

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I don't really think I have a "Top 5" list when it comes to my cookbooks. I think I would have to say, if pressed, my top 5 would be the last 5 I used. I'm all over the map when it comes to cooking from my books. Even received more for Christmas this year, which probably expands my collection to near 1,000.
 
French Laundry
Gastromique
RAW
Food Lovers Companion
...but my first and all time favorite was my kid book:
"Cooking With Pooh"
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Mine are;

Joy of Cooking
Betty Crocker
Allrecipes (All of them)
Betty Thomas Cookbook ( she is a local lady)
Paula Deen (All of them)

And of course the great recipes from this forum!!!!!!;)
 
for regular use rather than reading (for whatever purpose)
Joy of cooking (the unpopular newer edition...love it as basic reference)
Petersen's Essentials of cooking
Child Mastering the art of French Cooking
Beard New York Times Cookbook
Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook

btw I have a library of great cookbooks. But these five are always first reaches.
 
Could you possibly have asked a harder question to answer????? :chef:

Inter Courses (yes, it's a cookbook with fabulous recipes)
The BBQ Bible or Grill Bible or something like that by Steven Reichlin (sp)
A local Junior Women's League cookbook from years ago

...and now I'm stumped as to what the others may be...

OH - does the handwritten cookbook I compiled for myself count?
 
Joy of Cooking (I have 1942, 1965, and a the new edition), Fannie Farmer (I have old and new editions of this one), Better Homes and gardens (3 editions), Cook's Illustrated (3 editions), and my own cookbook. :chef:
 
Escoffier, number one. If I ever had to to choose only one that would be it.
Julia's "Mastering..."
James Beard's "Theory and Practice of Good Cooking".

That's about it. Those are the three, and we own over 300.

If we lost all, would replace those immediately.
 
  1. Joy of Cooking
  2. Heritage of America Cookbook by Better Homes and Gardens
  3. How to Cook Everything
  4. The Bread Bakers Apprentice
  5. New York Times Cookbook
 
Wow, this is hard. Some I like for cooking ideas, some for reading or historical value. I'll take a stab at it.

Joy
Greene on Green
Marilyn Harris's cookbooks
Coyote Cafe
BBQ Bible

And sooooooo much more!
 
TATTRAT said:
French Laundry
Gastromique
RAW
Food Lovers Companion
...but my first and all time favorite was my kid book:
"Cooking With Pooh"
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Tattrat, I'm curious: How many recipes have you made from the French Laundry, if you know?
 
Firehouse Food Cooking with San Francisco Firefighters by George Dolese and Steve Siegelman
Asian Noodles by Nina Simonds
The Essential Pasta Cookbook
The Country Italian
Better Homes and Garden Cookbook I have had this cookbook since about 8th grade.
 
The Foods of Greece
Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook
Delia Smith
The Bread Book
The Best of Singapore Cooking
 
Joy of Cooking (older edition)
Claudia Roden book on Middle Eastern cooking
Moosewood
Paradisi (in Greek)
Helen Chen's Chinese Home Cooking
 
Isn't this something like asking "which is your favorite child"? I don't think I could choose.
 
The following books are my favorites...
1. "The Professional Chef" by The Culinary Institute of America
2. "On Food and Cooking" by Harold McGee
3. "Land of Plenty - Authentic Sichuan Recipes" by Fuchsia Dunlop
4. "Japanese Cooking - A Simple Art" by Shizuo Tsuji
5. "Sauces" by James Peterson

These are excellent books as well...
1. "The Chinese Kitchen" by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
2. "DK's Sushi Chronicles From Hawaii" - by Dave Kodama
3. "Exotic Ethiopian Cooking" by Daniel Mesfin
4. "Louisiana Real & Rustic" by Emeril Lagasse
5. "Seductions of Rice" by Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid
6. "Les Halles" by Anthony Bourdain
7. "The Breath of a Wok" by Grace Young
8. "The Food of Thailand" by Lulu Grimes & Oi Cheepchaiissara
9. "A Cowboy in the Kitchen" by Grady Spears & Robb Walsh
10. "Garde Manger" by The Culinary Institute of America
11. "Bouchon" by Thomas Keller
12. "The French Laundry" by Thomas Keller

...Thats what I have here at my desk anyways... :LOL:
 
It's so hard to pick just 5.

Frugal Gourmet cooks 3 ancient cuisines (Jeff Smith)

Baking Illustrated (Cook's Illustrated cookbook)

How to Grill (Steve Raichlen)

Joy of Cooking (Rombauer/Becker)

I can only narrow 5th place to a few different books:

My PDA archive of my own recipes
Garde Manger: The Art and Craft of the Cold Kitchen (CIA textbook)
It's All American Food





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