Do you collect cookbooks? Which are your favorite cookbooks?

Question

I like 'The Joy of Cooking', it has just about any recipe you could possibly need.

Answer 1

any by Rachael Ray easy and great

Answer 2

I have a huge collection of cookbooks, I love cooking and trying new recipes. One of my favorite is "The Best of Bridge" series.
The one I use the most though is "The Good Housekeeping Cookbook", similar to Joy of Cooking.

Answer 3

Yes! Anything from Betty Crocker, BH&G, new cookbooks, and I love collecting old-fashioned cookbooks like community and bank cookbooks, pamphlets from companies from the 20's to the 70's. I always look for any cookbook at a yard sale.

My mother's and grandma's cooking was so good. There's a lot of heritage in those old cookbooks, and things that should be remembered.

Answer 4

Yes I do collect cookbooks, recipe clippings, cards, etc.
I've probably most often used "Betty Crocker's Cookbook" - 1974, and "Campbell's Great American Cookbook".
A friend recently gave me "The Joy of Cooking" on CD, but I've been too busy HERE to really take a look at it!

Answer 5

* Diana Kennedy = my favorite cookbook writer. I grew up in a foodie household in Texas in the 1970s and traveled a fair amount in Mexico, so I basically kind of learned to cook using Kennedy's "The Cuisines of Mexico," unusual as that may be.

* I also really like a cookbook called "Cocina de la Familia," also Mexican recipes -- very down-home and authentic, also very practical recipes.

* I use "Madhur Jaffrey's Quick and Easy Indian Cuisine" a lot. (I cook Indian food. I cook anything with cilantro and chiles.) I like Julie Sahni's Indian cookbooks, too.

* I like Mark Bittman's "Quick and Easy" cookbook. It's got some delicious, simple, healthy Asian recipes, in particular.

* Ann Clark's "Fabulous Fish" and "Quick Cuisine" are terrific cookbooks. "Fabulous Fish" has a trout-meuniere recipe that's easy and worth the price of the book all by itself.

* I keep a copy of "The Joy of Cooking" as a reference book, in case I need to make a cake, or a pie, or biscuits, or a bechamel sauce, or something like that.

* I like "The Silver Palate" and "The Silver Palate New Basics" as a kind of 70s-80s nostalgia thing. Sometimes a person wants exactly that kind of food. Those recipes sort of are tricked up with too many ingredients to be fashionable now, but they're such enjoyable, festive recipes. Sometimes that's exactly what a person wants to cook, especially for a party.

Answer 6

The Black Family Reunion Cookbook.

Answer 7

With over 300 cookerys books - it is a hard question to answer.
But seminal moments in my cookery hobby life probably include buying the Following
1. Mastering the art of French Cookery volume 1 by Louise Bertholle, Simone Beck and Julia Child.
2. Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery by Jane Grigson
3. North Atlantic Seafood by Alan Davidson
4. Spanish Food and Wine by Penelope Casas
5. Authentic Mexican Cooking by Rick Bayless
6. Larousse Gastronomique
7. All the regional French Gastronomique published by Conran :- e.g Normany Gastronomique; Loire Gastronomique
8. Classic Chinese Cookery by Yan Kit So
9. Simple French Cooking by Richard Olney
10. Anything by Elizabeth David e.g. "An Omlette and A Glass of Wine"

But this excludes countless books and cuisines Hungarian, Italian, Indian, Persian, Moroccan, ! and on and on for which I have many treasured books.

Answer 8

I have three favorites: Joy of Cooking, for good basic help. Jacques Pepin's "Fast Food My Way" and Lidia Bastianich's Italian-American cookbook. The last two are companion books to their TV series so it's fun to actually watch them prepare dishes that are in their books.

Answer 9

Yes, I collect cookbooks and recipes. I have dozens of cookbooks and thousands of recipes. I don't have one favorite cookbook.

Answer 10

I love cookbooks, my favorite or at least the most used is betty crocker.

Answer 11

Yes, I love them! The Betty Crocker ones or the Food Network ones.