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If you could only have 3 cookbooks on your shelf what would they be?
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Bittman's "How to Cook Everything"
Rosengarten's "The Dean & Deluca Cookbook"
Hepinstall's "Growing Up in a Korean Kitchen"
Day to day, these are the three I consult most often.
Of course I check online more and more these days.
wookie at 1:09PM on 03/19/08
They would be on loan from the library so I could swap them out at will (and still meet your completely unreasonable limit of three!!).
Cary at 2:02PM on 03/19/08
Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Not sure which one, but definitly a Mollie Katzen cookbook, probably Still Life With Menu
Bittman's How to Cook Everything Hi @wookie!
Essentials and Mollie Katzen are constants. Third place on the list is everchanging, and my whims are fickle. But for now Bittman works for me.
chisai at 2:04PM on 03/19/08
Joy, the most recent edition, From Julia Child's Kitchen and something Asian - right now, I'm most-using My Bombay Kitchen, which is Parsi food.
lemons at 2:40PM on 03/19/08
The Joy of Cooking
New Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook
Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art
Amandarama at 3:06PM on 03/19/08
Ok agree with "joy of cooking" and "how to cook everything" but my third is def "silver spoon" by phaidon press
jasonjklaus at 6:27PM on 03/19/08
@jasonjklaus--"silver spoon" is my husband's favorite, primarily because it is huge and he bought it for 3 bucks. I've never known anyone else who had it, too.
wookie at 6:33PM on 03/19/08
@All - it is going to take me awhile on this one! I just went into the kitchen and looked at the ones I have and told them all I was sorry for even thinking of having to choose! *big L on forehead*
crazyspice at 6:38PM on 03/19/08
Silver Palate, Better Homes and Gardens, Martha Stewart
JojoK at 7:03PM on 03/19/08
The first two are easy: King Arthue Flour 200th Anniversary Cook Book and Julia & Jacques - Cooking at Home.
For the third, I guess, (although it's not strictly a cookbook), Shirley Corriher's Cookwise.
srhcb at 8:05PM on 03/19/08
Anyone else making a list of those you don't have yet? I'm pathetic!!!
PerkyMac at 8:15PM on 03/19/08
i actually only own 2 cookbooks!
the silver spoon // il cucchiaio d'argento
joy of cooking
what shall i have for my 3rd...
cafepeach at 2:19AM on 03/20/08
The best of Cooking Light
Joy of Cooking (which I sadly don't yet own)
Baking with Julia
dockanz at 7:03AM on 03/20/08
"Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cooking" by Chef John Folse
"Louisiana Kitchen" by Chef Paul Prudhomme
"Southern Cooking" by Craig Claiborne
1stmakearoux at 9:29AM on 03/20/08
Well, definitely Joy of Cooking stays. It's the only one that's open and out on my counter 24/7, which is saying a lot, 'cuz I totally HATE having crap all over my counters ;-p
Next would be "something" by Julia Child, but I'm not sure which one... I might have to throw a dart.
And finally.... um... er... well... hhhmmm... uh... WWWAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
I can't decide on a third. I just can't. Don't make me choose. Please? Wah!
LoCo at 9:54AM on 03/20/08
I'm rarely speechless but this question leaves me without an answer. I could never decide! :)
MelsDiner at 8:53PM on 03/20/08
That's a tough one. I bet most of us would go with the cookbooks we had early in our cooking careers. For me that was Julia's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and Claiborne/Lee's Chinese cookbook, both from the 1960's. My third would be one of Julie Sahni's Indian cookbooks.
Teachertalk at 9:33PM on 03/20/08
Alice Waters- The Art of Simple Cooking
Mollie Katzen- the Mooseword Cookbook
Tie between: Jamie Oliver- Jamie's Italy and Mario Batali- Molto Italiano and Charlie Trotter- Raw
StudentStomach at 12:30AM on 03/21/08
Joy of Cooking--the OLD edition please
Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking
and
The Good Housekeeping Book of Preserving
Why? All of these books give me information on how to cook things at the most basic level. I can add flavouring and doll up the recipes myself (and usually do).
And the one I reluctantly removed from my list: Cook's Illustrated--The Best Recipe
smallblondemom at 6:34AM on 03/21/08
I started to answer this question by thinking about the most useful, but I realized that I would have to keep the most sentimental in my collection.
First would definitely be the hand-written cookbook that my grandmother made for me from her recipe collection. Seventy years of East Texas cooking - it's priceless to me.
The Best of New Mexico Kitchens, given to me by my father on a family vacation to Taos.
And the only time I've had a recipe published. A State Fair of Texas cookbook that includes my prize-winning cookie recipe (kids division).
jcwest47 at 11:19PM on 03/21/08
I'm a gadget freak:
Tools and Techiques by Williams-Sonoma
Gear For Your Kitchen by Alton Brown
I'm Just Here For The Food 2.0 by Alton Brown
As much as I love Cook's Illustrated, I couldn't put one of their books in my top three. Now if we move to Top 4, I have some suggestions.
http://nujoikitchendiary.blogspot.com/
NuJoi at 4:47PM on 03/29/08