What IS the best cookbook, not any specific food kinds but a variety from every meal, colored pictures help, with easy instructions. If you've used it tell me why you like it.
2007-07-12 11:27:07 · 9 answers · asked by Doctor Music 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
I think the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook is the best all around one. The one with the red and white checkered cover. I received one for a wedding present in 1964 and it was my bible in the kitchen! It was much more helpful than the Betty Crocker cookbook or any of the dozen or so others I received. It's chock full of great recipes, but what I found most helpful as a new cook were all the tips, techniques and explanation of cooking terms. It has lots of great pictures, too!
2007-07-12 11:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Clare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any of the books put out by the CIA (http://www.ciachef.edu/enthusiasts/cookbooks/) will be beautifully written, well illustrated and have clear instructions. You can start with "Cooking at Home with the Culinary Institute of America" it has some great classic foods that you may remember and some new twists on old stand bys this book is already loosing it's binding on my shelf. I also really like the classic red Better Homes and Gardens cookbook - simple home-style foods that are so familiar they are always a hit. Enjoy!
2007-07-12 11:35:50 · answer #2 · answered by Walking on Sunshine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooks Illustrated magazine also has a TV show called Americas Test Kitchen on PBS, they sell there own books as well as the magazines. They take common recipes and make them as much as 30 times until they come up with the perfect recipe so everything is about as good as it gets. They also take things that most home cooks avoid making because its too difficult and they find ways to make it easier so you can make it. I actually dont have any of there books because I signed up online and I can download any recipes I want for a small cost.
2007-07-12 11:35:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't have pics., but from a reference standpoint, The Joy of Cooking, now in it's umpteenth printing is a great standard cookbook which covers a wide spectrum of foods.
2007-07-12 11:39:36 · answer #4 · answered by Mio K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a set of cookbook's that come out every year since 1931 called the joy of cooking it tell's and help's you with everything!!!
2007-07-12 12:00:17 · answer #5 · answered by Tina Tegarden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone can cook- Gustof Dessens its great its the reason i love to cook
2007-07-12 11:34:21 · answer #6 · answered by brandon f 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeffs Smith book in USA.
2007-07-12 11:31:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the joy of cooking is an excellent cook book not only does it give you recipes but techniques too.....
another excellent cook book is McCall's cook book I have use mine so much that it is falling apart.....
2007-07-12 11:33:56 · answer #8 · answered by bernman101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
joy of cooking
2007-07-12 11:34:31 · answer #9 · answered by Poet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋