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01-08-2007, 02:57 PM
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What are your top five favourite Cookbooks?
I am fascinated with what people keep around forever...and the books they most often refer to over time....
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01-08-2007, 03:27 PM
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The Fannie Farmer Cookbook (Mass Market Paperback)
by Marion Cunningham It's the only cookbook I have ever used!
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01-08-2007, 04:50 PM
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I'll have to think about it....Even then I don't know if I can come up with a "Top Five" list....
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01-08-2007, 04:53 PM
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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.
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01-08-2007, 05:34 PM
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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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01-08-2007, 05:41 PM
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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!!!!!! 
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01-08-2007, 05:50 PM
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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. |
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01-08-2007, 06:10 PM
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Could you possibly have asked a harder question to answer?????
 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?
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01-08-2007, 06:23 PM
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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.
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01-08-2007, 06:47 PM
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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. |
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