Recommend your favorite cookbook

[Dorothy Zbornak]

My husband's birthday is coming up, and I want to get him a cookbook because I'm sexy like that. I was looking at some Nigella ones because I think she cooks awesome stuff, even though I can't handle the way she stuffs her hands into everything. Do you guys have any favs?

[laurack]

I love cookbooks.

my go to now is the Cooks Illustrated cookbook. It's from Americas test kitchens, basically they test everything in various ways to come up with the "perfect" way. Allegedly. Anyway, I've never had a recipe not be great from this book.

I also love the williams sonoma cookbook because it has pretty pictures

[rjamz]

I love Plenty and Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi

www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Recipes-Londons-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1357574777&sr=8-1&keywords=plenty+cookbook
www.amazon.com/Jerusalem-A-Cookbook-Yotam-Ottolenghi/dp/1607743949/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1357574813&sr=8-2&keywords=plenty+cookbook

[mala]

I will second the recommendations for the smitten kitchen cookbook and the best recipe (Americas test kitchen/cooks illustrated cookbooks, there's two, one general and one specifically for baking). Ive had the best recipe book for years, and I just got the smitten kitchen and best recipe-baking cookbooks for Xmas.

Eta:
www.amazon.com/Best-Recipe-Cooks-Illustrated-Magazine/dp/0936184744/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357575556&sr=1-1&keywords=best+recipes+cookbook
www.amazon.com/Baking-Illustrated-Cooks-Magazine-Editors/dp/0936184752/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357575606&sr=1-3&keywords=best+recipes+cookbook+baking
www.amazon.com/Smitten-Kitchen-Cookbook-Deb-Perelman/dp/030759565X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357575782&sr=1-1&keywords=smitten+kitchen

[Dorothy Zbornak]

These all look so awesome!

We have a lot of cookbooks, to be honest. But we like to cook. I used to love Jamie Oliver, but we've watched too many of his shows, and now I just think he's annoying.

[chasbride07]

I'm a big fan of the Everyday food ones - mainly because the stuff is easy, I haven't made a bad recipe from it and there are pictures for everything.

[mala]

This ( www.amazon.com/Professional-Baking-Wayne-Gisslen/dp/1118083741/ref=dp_ob_title_bk) is my go-to baking book. Its geared more to professionals but its easy enough to follow for the home baker. If he likes to bake at least.

[katie]

I also really like the Cooks Illustrated (and Baking). They are definitely not filled with nice perfectly cooked food pictures through out. But I agree with Laura, the recipes always turn out good!

[nilex0102]

Another vote for Cooks Illustrated

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Ooooh .... Man, I shouldn't have asked because now it's really hard to pick!

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Gisa, gisa ... We don't make jokes about fine modern literature!

[monkeybabe]

Jan 7, 2013 11:26:50 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Better Homes and Gardens. It's not pretty or exciting, but everything I make from there is good.

I learned to bake using Better Homes and Gardens. <3

[thedahliharpa]

I was gifted Vegan Planet when I became dairy free and it is a good resource. There are a lot of good recipes despite the whole no meat thing.

[unclejesse]

Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything". If you are looking for a great baking book, right now I'm loving "Momofuku Milk Bar" by Christina Tosi.

[erniebufflo]

Jan 7, 2013 13:59:25 GMT -5 unclejesse said:

Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything". If you are looking for a great baking book, right now I'm loving "Momofuku Milk Bar" by Christina Tosi.

Love Bittman. His How To Cook Everything Vegetarian and The Food Maters Cookbook are also great. I don't have it yet, but based on her blog, I know Deb Perlman's Smitten Kitchen Cookbook will also be amazing.

[Deleted]

I buy cookbooks from local churches and nfp groups. so I don't have one clue about a mass produced cookbook, but I adore Ree Drummond (Pioneer Woman) and imagine her cookbooks are probably great.

This one is a 2012 best seller on Amazon.

www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Woman-Cooks-Food-Frontier/dp/0061997188/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357585984&sr=1-1&keywords=Ree+Drummond

[Deleted]

We love anything Mario Batali for Italian. Webers way to grill is our favorite grill cookbook.

[lolaburns]

Anything John Folse and the " River Road" cookbooks.

[claralou]

We have several favorites. The best "gift" one IMO is Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home:

www.amazon.com/Ad-Hoc-Home-Thomas-Keller/dp/1579653774/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357588766&sr=1-1&keywords=ad+hoc+at+home

Note: it's meat-heavy, which is hard for me, but it's a beautiful book with some amazing recipes.

Another (but different) Momofuku book is this one that we love: www.amazon.com/Momofuku-David-Chang/dp/030745195X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357588846&sr=1-2&keywords=momofuku+cookbook

Staples that we use all the time include:

Joy of Cooking 75th anniversary edition: www.amazon.com/Joy-Cooking-75th-Anniversary-2006/dp/0743246268/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357588882&sr=1-1&keywords=joy+of+cooking+2012

Jane Brody's Good Food Book: www.amazon.com/Jane-Brodys-Good-Food-Book/dp/0393331881/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357588909&sr=1-1&keywords=good+food+book+jane+brody

And for fun, this one is gorgeous and yummy: www.amazon.com/Street-Food-India-Greatest-Complete/dp/184885420X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357588947&sr=1-1&keywords=street+food+of+india

::runs off to look at everyone else's cool suggestions::

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Thank you all so much; I went with Cooks Illustrated ... but not before changing my mind a million times. All recs are now on the wishlist for future occasions of gift giving!