What are your top five favourite Cookbooks?

[thymeless]

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

[Uncle Bob]

Kinda late..but I said I would reply...In no certain order my 5 go to books

Southern Sideboards
Bayou Cuisine
How To eat Like a Southerner (And live to tell the tale)
Fish Cookery
Best of the Best (a series)

Non published...
My family recipe books (locked in a safe & guarded around the clock)

Then there are several ethnic specific books I go to.....

[boufa06]

Originally Posted by Uncle Bob

Non published...My family recipe books (locked in a safe & guarded around the clock)Then there are several ethnic specific books I go to.....

Hey Uncle Bob, is well-guarded safe fireproof as well? In case it isn't, don't you think that you should back up your family treasures by way of wider dissemination, eg. by posting here, just in case? After all, online backup is very much involved these days.

[Uncle Bob]

Fireproof it is....

I have already "gone to the safe" twice on here!!
Did you miss them? So sorry!!

Seriously..I do have hard copies in a safe deposit box!!
Now that I think about it....my banker and his wife have put on a lot of weight lately......

[boufa06]

Uncle Bob, you can't blame me for trying. At least I can sleep better now secure in the knowledge that the family secrets will trickle out over time albeit a drop at a time as it seems.

[Uncle Bob]

boufa06....

Nawww I don't blame you....would have tried the same scheme myself

The majority of them are not "new inventions" just TNT stuff...that are ..."Often imitated but never duplicated"

[Sugarcreations]

Top 5 huh, well;

(1). Cookwise Shirley O Corriher
(2). On Food and Cooking Harold McGee
(3). The Pie and Pastry Bible Rose Levy Beranbaum
(4). Cake Bible author same as #3.
(5). The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef Bo Friberg
The Professional Pastry Chef Bo Friberg

[Sararwelch]

My favorite cookbooks change, right now I'd say the Professional Chef and Bread Baker's Apprentice.

[T-roy]

1-Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen.
2-Paul Prudhomme's Seasoned America.
3-Jeff Smith's The Frugal Gourmet on our Immigrant Ancestors.
4-The Internet.
5-Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles cookbook.

[StirBlue]

Originally Posted by Ayrton

Joy of Cooking (older edition)
Claudia Roden book on Middle Eastern cooking
Moosewood
Paradisi (in Greek)
Helen Chen's Chinese Home Cooking

I love the Moosewood Cookbook. Is this collection of recipes based on the Moosewood Resort? I read it every couple of years and I don't want to go digging for it right now.