Favourite Cookbook

Alton Brown

My mom got me the Betty Crocker cookbook when I was in high school and I still have it. It's tattered and falling apart but I love it. I don't use it as much any more but I still have it.

The last book I bought was Richard Blais' "Try This at Home".

My favorite chefs are those who've appeared on Top Chef (Richard Blais, Stefan Richter, Brooke Williamson, Michael Voltaggio, Kuniko Yagi, etc.). I also like Thomas Keller, Wiley Dusfrene and the like. I don't necessarily like Martha Stewart but I do use a lot of her recipes.

I don't buy cookbooks that often anymore. I usually tend to just look up recipes on line.

Oldest cookbook - "Betty Crocker", mine is falling apart too but only use for favorites like hollendaise sauce these days
Favorite cookbook - That's tough, I love them all but for information probably "The Joy of Cooking"
Last Purchase - One of the "Skinny Taste" cookbooks, I have a couple so not sure which was last.

Honorable mentions- Inspiralized series & Looney spoons cookbooks

I can't pick a favorite, I have a silly number. But:

Recommended for newbie cooks: Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything (and his Fish was extremely helpful for me at one time). Also Roasting: A Simple Art and Vegetable Love, both by Barbara Kafka.

Really helpful and interesting: The Science of Cooking, Harold McGee

For fun: Joyce of Cooking (food and drink from James Joyce's Dublin) -- important to note the beginning of the first Leopold Bloom chapter in Ulysses: "MR Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and
fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented
urine."

Also: A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook.

Great book I should spend more time with: 660 Curries by Raghavan Iyer

Most recent acquisition might be The Taste of Country Cooking, Edna Lewis, although I also got Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan last year. I spent this year trying to thin out my books, including cookbooks, so did not acquire anything new.

I have a ton and used to use them a lot, but now they mostly collect dust save for some very specific recipes in a couple books...pretty much use Pinterest these days.

It's been several years since I bought a cookbook, but I believe the last one was for my husband and it is also my favorite...The Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. We're not vegan, but love it!

I don't have a favorite chef at all, I don't follow anyone or watch programs about cooking.

FL_Hiker wrote: »

Joy of cooking 😊, my mom left all of us kids a copy with a little note inside from her. It has some of my favorite recipes my family has always followed.

Yes, if I could have just one cookbook, it would be the Joy of Cooking for sure. In fact, I often get emailed recipes from America's Test Kitchen, look them up in my JOC, and make that version instead (I prefer the way JOC formats recipes.)

My library system carries this and many more cookbooks - anyone interested in checking out cookbooks before buying should check their library system.

Cooks Illustrated without a doubt. We have three of their cookbooks and the magazine subscription, but the magazines and the big catch-all cookbook (red cover) are our go-tos. We rarely ever use our other cookbooks since getting it.

estherdragonbat wrote: »

Favorite cookbook is 1,000 Vegan Recipes, followed closely by Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. I haven't bought a cookbook in years; these days I use what I have or look online.

Another vote for Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz!

I’m not vegan, but a friend cooked several of these recipes for me, and I got hooked. It’s probably my most used cookbook now. Just so darn delicious.

platejoy.com gives me great tasting meal plans perfectly sized and matched to my needs and goals.