Cookbook to end all cookbooks?

Question

I'm looking to find a really good cookbook. In twos years, I go to college, and I'm most likely getting kicked out of the house. Does anyone know a cookbook that has everything (or most everything) that I'll need? I'm taking along some recipes from my Grandma to supplement said cookbook.

Answer 1

I'm going to have to say Joy of Cooking. All other cookbooks are optional. Joy of Cooking is mandatory.

Answer 2

Like some others pointed out, with the internet you don't really need a cookbook, but I use mine in the kitchen all the time. I would suggest for your first book, get Rachel Ray's "Meals for 2, 4, 6" This way you can manage portions if you want to practice on your friends. The next one I would get ( you'll get more, after 1 you'll be hooked) would be a good southern style cooking or grilling. There is also one call "A man, a can & a grill" I think - it would be good as well........Good luck at school!!

Answer 3

I am a cookbook collector (for personal use). My computer room/craft room/cookbook room has shelves on 3 walls. At last count I have 1,200 cookbooks but I know I have more than that now. They are in order on the shelves. I have at least one from all 50 states in the U.S., I have all kinds of health cookbooks depending on the subject (low-fat, low-carb, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Pritikin, Nutrapoints, and more of those. I have cookbooks for a lot of different countries from Asia, China, Dutch, Belgian, German, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, Polish, Russian, Filipino, French, Scandinavian, Swedish, Hungarian, Greek, Middle-Eastern, and more of those. I have generic cookbooks (with everything in them) to Slow-Cooker, Meals In Minutes, Microwave, and more. I have specific cookbooks like Cakes, Cookies, Breads, Meat, Vegetables, Salads, Cooking for Two, Cooking for One, Bed and Breakfast, and more. I have some cookbooks that were copywritten in the late 1800's to new ones. In have Depression Era cookbooks and cookbooks my mother and her sister had when they first married (one had Woman's Home Companion Cookbook and the other had The Original Boston Cooking School Cookbook originally dated 1896 - not the version I have - by Fannie Merritt Farmer). I have Ellis Island Cookbooks including the one that was given to Immigrants when they first crossed into the United States so they could become familiar with our kind of stoves, cooking utensils, and foods. That last cookbook is called The Settlement Cookbook and explained how to cook everything and exactly how to do it. I look at my cookbooks often - whenever anyone asks for a recipe, I can easily find it in my books. I also have cookbooks from all of the lower provinces of Canada including Newfoundland. You definitely are not cookbook obsessed. I know which ones contain the best recipe for most of what I want to find. I read them cover to cover before they went on the shelves.

Answer 4

The Must have cookbook is the Joy of Cooking.

Answer 5

Amen on the Joy of Cooking...the Bible of cookbooks

Answer 6

Betty Crocker cookbook has it all ! Luck to you on college !!

Answer 7

It really depends on where you are from ,something that sounds good to me might not be good to you. Paula the southern version of Betty Crocker has some great easy to follow recipes.

Answer 8

Now with the internet you really don't need a cookbook! Go to www.allrecipes.com they have everything there!

Answer 9

Good Housekeeping or Betty Crocker are good. but use the net too. LOTS more there than any cookBOOK.
www.foodnetwork.com
www.recipe4living.com
www.allrecipes.com

Answer 10

The Joy of Cooking covers it all.