Good Cookbooks?

[hoffsquared]

I'm looking for good cookbooks. I like to browse the bookstore but find that some I choose I don't cook from.

Here are some of my favorites:

The New Basics by Julie Rosso & Sheila Lukins
The New American Cooking by Joan Nathan
The Moosewood series
The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
Barefoot Contessa

My kids love our Rachel Ray and Emeril kid-friendly cookbooks

[Veronica]

Cuisine at Home.

It's a bimonthly magazine, but they have also compiled the issues into yearly volumes.

Veronica

[NbyNW]

Probably the ones we use most are:

James Beard's American Cookery (might be out of print)
The Minimalist Cooks at Home - Mark Bittman
The Gourmet Cookebook - Ruth Reichl, ed.
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone - Deborah Madison

[OakLeaf]

Any of Lorna Sass's pressure cooker cookbooks, if you're not already adept at beans and grains in the pressure cooker.

Madhur Jaffrey's World of the East Vegetarian Cooking is a delicious and mostly simple introduction to the cuisines of all of Asia, from the Middle East to Indonesia - kind of a one-stop place for beginning cooks to sample different flavors and decide which cuisine(s) you want to learn in more depth.

[Blueberry]

Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
The Joy of Cooking (old and new)
Also love the Art of Simple Food and the Moosewood Series (though I find most recipes a little fussy for daily use)

[Eden]

I see a few of my favorites up above already, but I also really like
A New Way to Cook - Sally Schneider and
Soup, A Way of Life - Barbara Kafka

[OakLeaf]

The Joy of Cooking (old and new)

Yeah, gotta keep the old edition for the wild game recipes and the bartender's guide.

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home is a bit more "everyday" than their other cookbooks.

Honestly, I get most of my recipes from the Internet. Recipesource.com, foodtv.com or just Google. Google indexing is a lot better than it used to be - they finally figured out that when someone googles a couple of ingredients, they're not looking for restaurant menus. Look at three or four recipes, see what they have in common and where there's room for variation, mash 'em up.

[crazycanuck]

No idea if you can get your hands on these up in the Northern Hemisphere but it's worth a shot:

The Aust Institute of Sport put out three cookbooks a while back with many of the elite athletes fave recipes. Soooooo yummmmmmyy!!!

Survival for the fittest is one of the books..i'll have to search for the other ones.

I also like Donna Hay's cookbooks...ooooooooooooooo *drool*

[cylegoddess]

Jamie Olivers America.
I cant eat but about three recipes in it, but I gave it to friend( without allergies! who can eat meat) so he can be cookin up things like

NY Cheesecake
Hushpuppies
Jambalaya
Chili corn bread
etc.

Food porn at its best!!