Cookbooks

Non-fiction books that contain a collection of recipes, techniques, and tricks of the trade or else focus on the exploration of food, cooking, and culture of food. Many cookbooks are divided into sections such as baking, dinner, and breakfast. A specialty cookbook may focus only on a certain country's cuisine, such as Italian or Cajun. There are some cookbooks that are written to highlight one ingredient (i.e. honey), and some cookbooks focused on only one branch of cooking (such as bread.) Even further, some cookbooks focus on types of cooking (microwave, barbecue, baking.) ...more

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The Tomato Grower's Handbook: Everything you need to know, from seed to harvest and beyond
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
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The Pioneer Woman Cooks―The Essential Recipes: 120 Greatest Hits, New Twists, and Perfected Classics – The Bestselling Foolproof Guide for Home Cooks
Food Person
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots
Kitchen of Witch Hat, vol. 3
Keep It Simple, Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor: A Cookbook
How To Make The Best Coffee At Home
Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today
Of Course It’s Good!: Aggressively Delicious Meals ANYONE Can Make and EVERYONE Will Love
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More
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    Fired Up: Fresh takes and big flavors in 90 modern barbecue recipes

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  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
    Joy of Cooking
    Mastering the Art of French Cooking
    Jerusalem: A Cookbook
    How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
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    The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook
    The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
    The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
    Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
    Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
    Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
    The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out
    Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
    Keto Diet for Beginners: 30-Day Keto Meal Plan for Rapid Weight Loss.
    The Help by Kathryn StockettLove You Forever by Robert MunschRoom by Emma DonoghueGood Enough is Your Superpower by Susan  LandersThe Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
    Great Books for Mom or Any Woman
    500 books — 322 voters

    The Forager Chefs Club by Rita Mace WalstonThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerMastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildThe New Basics Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Compleat I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
    Cook Books
    586 books — 139 voters
    The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerThe New Basics Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion CunninghamThe Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie KatzenBarefoot Contessa Family Style by Ina Garten
    Best Cookbooks Ever
    549 books — 218 voters

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    Books Read in 2012
    62 books — 65 voters
    The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerMastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildBetty Crocker's Cookbook by Betty CrockerBarefoot Contessa at Home by Ina GartenBetter Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens
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    “ Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking at Zomick's Bakery is slow and leisurely. ...more ”
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    “ But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our game plan ever was—to make food that tasted good. ”
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