Our friends at Food52 have an interesting challenge on their site
-- one that's right up our members' alley. As they describe it:
"Every home cook has their cookbooks: the ones front and center on their shelf, the ones they turn to advice, for courage, for inspiration. We want to hear yours. Leave your 10 essential cookbooks in the comments section of this post (we know, it's hard), and help us create The FOOD52 Cookbook Library. We'll choose the top 10 cookbooks from all of your answers...And the best part? One lucky commenter who submits their top 10 will win Jane's original painting of The Food52 Essential Cookbooks (a $345 value)."
If there's any group that knows their cookbooks, it's the EYB group, so we thought this would be fun for all of you. And, of course, it's also fascinating to see what others think the top 10 cookbooks should be!
12 comments
billroper
The Art of Simple Food - Alice Waters
Michel Guerard's Cuisine Gourmande
Alastair Little's Keep it Simple
The Lee Brother's Southern Cookbook
Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
America's Test Kitchen Menu Cookbook
George Perrier's Le Bec-Fin Recipes
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook - Heston Blumenthal
il viaggio di vetri - Marc Vetri
Ack! I can't believe that I cut Ottolenghi and Pepin!
scparks
2. No Need to Knead, Suzanne Dunaway
3. The Cake Doctor Book, Ann Byrn
4. The Cuisine of California, Diane Rossen Worthington
5. Hershey's, any of the many Hershey's Cookbooks...the covers alone look like chocolate.
6. Grilling and BBQ, Cooks Illustrated Best Recipe Series
7. Twelve Months of Monastery soups, Brother d'Avila- Latourette
8. Cooks Illustrated Cookbook, Cooks Illustrated
9. Cookbooks of the World--Chinese, Italian, Provincial French, Spain, Germany volumes, Time Life Series
10. Latest best friend--Cake Doctor Bakes Gluten Free, Ann Byrn
dmihic
sir_ken_g
Hot and Sour Salty and Sweet – a culinary journey through SE Asia.
Japanese Cooking a Simple Art –Tsuij
Classic Indian Cooking – Julie Sahni
Land of Plenty – Fuchsia Dunlop
Eating Koran – Clelia Hae-Jin Lee
The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking – Mai Pham
Unmentionable Cuisine – Calvin W. Schwabe
All About Braising - Molly Stevens
Fanny Farmer– 11th Edition (1965) – Wilma Lord Perkins
schenck65
Marcella's Italian Kitchen (Hazan)
Appetite (Nigel Slater)
The Art of Simple Food (Waters)
Chez Panisse Vegetables (Waters)
The Best Recipe (Cook's Illustrated)
Fanny Farmer Cookbook
The Way to Cook (Child)
The Gourmet Cookbook (yellow)
On Food & Cooking: the Science and Lore of the Kitchen--I know it's not a cookbook, but it's essential (McGee)
Jane
Cook This Now by Melissa Clark;
Feast by Nigella Lawson;
Appetite by NIgel Slater;
Sunday Suppers at Lucques by Suzanne Goin;
The Ottolenghi Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi;
Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan;
All About Braising by Molly Stevens;
The New York Times Essential Cookbook by Amanda Hesser;
The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz;
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
adrienneyoung
okcook
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, D. Madison
The Complete Asian Cookbook, Charmaine Solomon (fantastic...on my second copy)
The New Best Recipes, Cooks Illustrated 2004
The Complete Middle East Cookbook, Tess Mallos
The Way to Cook, Julia
The New York Times Cookbook 1961, C. Claibourne
The Fine Art of Italian Cooking, Giuliano Bugialli
Ad Hoc at Home, T. Keller
Mexican Kitchen, R. Bayless
Weber's Big Book of Grilling, Jamie Purviance and Sandra McRae
Breadcrumbs
1. Stir – Barbara Lynch
2. Molto Gusto – Mario Batali
3. Italian Grill – Mario Batali
4. Mexican Everyday – Rick Bayless
5. Off The Shelf – Donna Hay
6. Martha Stewart Cookbook, Collected Recipes for Everyday – Martha Stewart
7. La Mia Cucina Toscana – Pino Luongo
8. 1000 Italian Recipes – Michele Scicolone
9. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook – Ina Garten
10. Vegetable Love – Barbara Kafka
ellabee
sabrina7
Lauraine
Amaranth to Zucchini by Elizabeth Schneider, The Savory Way by Deborah Madison, Silver Palate, The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden, Cooking at Home Karen Martini.