Do you buy them for a certain cuisine, a certain chef, a certain ingredient (like all pasta), a certain diet (like low-carb, diabetic), a certain item (like bread or soups), or do you buy cookbooks that have myriad dishes like Betty Crocker?
Just curious, I just noticed this while looking through my bookcase.
2007-02-16 06:34:42 · 11 answers · asked by chefgrille 7 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The kinds of cookbooks that I buy has changed over the years. Fifty years ago I collected everything...all the free cookbooks from the various food companies, little cookbooks published by churches or civic organizations, etc.
Before we were told that real men don't eat quiche, I tried to find a recipe and ended up with a French cookbook in French.
During the bicentennial, I got reprints of historic cookbooks.
In more recent years, I've gotten books about cooking without fat.
I have over 200 cookbooks but I use them as reference books more than as "cookbooks". There are some important things in cooking and many things that aren't important. I usually make up my own recipes after browsing through several cookbooks to see what others have done.
Two books that helped me to start making myown recipes:
Cooking Without Recipes, Helen Worth, Harper & Row, 1959
The Flavor-Principle Cookbook, Elisabeth Rozin, Hawthorn Books, 1973
Hope this helps.
2007-02-16 07:00:08 · answer #1 · answered by Spitzname 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Types Of Cookbooks
2016-12-14 18:26:51 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do like Betty Crocker cook books. I just received a cook book for x-mas, the all-new ultimate Southern Living Cookbook by Oxmoor House. It's a great book. It includes pictures of herbs, nuts, onions, etc. things you see in print and wonder what they are and what they look like. It's like a pictured food dictionary with many recipes on all the items you listed and more.
2007-02-16 06:43:45 · answer #3 · answered by Granny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like a cookbook with a myriad of recipes, because I never know what I want from one day or the other. If I only have lets say a pasta cookbook, but I want a chicken pot pie recipe, then what??
I like a nice balance of everything, not just one thing.
2007-02-16 06:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can honestly say that I haven't bought a cookbook...ever. I use allrecipes.com for alllll my recipes. Well, and Weight Watchers. They have great low cal recipes that taste de-lish!
I have been given cookbooks as gifts. They tend to be categorized- like a slow-cooker book, an italian book, a thai book...
2007-02-16 06:44:25 · answer #5 · answered by biology_freak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like cookbooks from chefs that I like. In particular, Giada DeLaurentiis and Rachael Ray. The recipes I have tried so far have been really easy to prepare and delicious !!
2007-02-16 06:57:28 · answer #6 · answered by Cruiser 68 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best one I have ever bought was a grilling cookbook. Many, many recipes and meat marinades that I use even when I can't grill and have to cook inside!
2007-02-16 07:01:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always use my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. Whatever recipe I am looking for, I can always find in there.
2007-02-16 07:45:44 · answer #8 · answered by Vanessa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of my favorite recipes...the ones that friends and family most often request...all came from good 'ol Betty Crocker! I love that book!
2007-02-16 07:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Suz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I buy low fat/low calorie cookbooks.
2007-02-16 10:29:58 · answer #10 · answered by Candi Apples 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋