OT:Love to cook? Like reading about cooking?

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Julia Child was one of my all time favorite people! Her book "The Way to Cook" is hands down one of the best cookbooks I've ever used. The way it is organized is great - a master recipe, then variations. Everything I have made from that cookbook has been excellent. I even tried French baguettes and they were great (I'm not much of a baker - more of a stovetop person.) And her humor is present everywhere. (My sister got to meet her and spend a weekend with her, and in person she was just how you would think - very dry humor, generous and kind. (I realized I had to change "is" to "was" in this paragraph - I can't get used to the fact that she is no longer with us!)

I love cooking Indian food - it's hard to beat Madhur Jaffrey - she has great stories in her cookbooks of where recipes come from, what she remembers about certain foods, family stories, and so on. I also really like 1000 Indian Recipes by Neelam Batra - some have been more successful than others, but it's a great source for more obscure (to us!) dishes - the stuff people actually eat at home in India, but you'd never find in an Indian restaurant here.