Favorite Cookbooks - Best Picks



		Favorite COOKBOOKS

		ALWAYS a work in progress...

General Cookbooks Eating More Veggies Desserts & Snacks	Area Cookbooks Jewish Cookbooks The Science of Cooking Children with Sensitivities	Anyone who has been to our house knows that I love cookbooks. I read them for ideas, I read them for recipes, I read them for stories, and I read them to get a sense of a time in history or a culture. Cookbooks can open the world to us with flavor combinations and spices, from the simple to the sublime. I love using the Internet to find recipes too, but nothing compares to leafing through a recipe book full of color pictures or impeccably measured calculations for great eats. Please share yours, I especially need the best Hispanic, African American, Asian, cultural cookbooks as I don't have a best there as well as the best special diet cookbooks for kids and adults. I also need the best Raw Food and Vegetarian cookbooks and any other suggestions or ideas you have. I love good cookbooks! Here are some of my favorites! So far...

		General Cookbooks that have it all -

	Barefoot Contessa Family Style	Barefoot Contessa - nothing compares to Ina Garten's books. I own them all and use them probably more than any other book. The recipes are simple, great for every day fare and yet delicious enough for company or the unexpected guest. The recipes are timeless. Her style is upbeat and carefree. Her ingredients are all things we have in our cupboard. Every recipe is perfect! This is a winning series. I particularly like Family Style, but each book has unique recipes and ideas that are sure fire hits for everyone!
	The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
	Barefoot Contessa Parties! I
	Food Network Kitchens Cookbook	The Food Network tests and retests recipes and this is a collection of recipes that work and are the best of the best.
	The Loaves and Fishes Cookbook	Anna Pump has a shop of the same name with delicious items.
		Eat More Vegetable Cookbooks
	Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone	Deborah Madison made a huge book of Vegetarian delights.
		Raw and Living Food Cookbooks Vegetarian Cookbooks





		Desserts - Cookies, Cakes, Ice Cream
	A Year in Chocolate	Alice Medrich knows Chocolate! Every recipe is a delicious winner and a creative approach to chocolate with insights into why she uses what and how she came up with the recipes. The lighter versions are every bit as delicious too. Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts has winners throughout and no one will guess they are lower in fat. They are gorgeous and delicious. The Cookies and Brownies book I use regularly but I always add 1/2 whole wheat flour, especially to chocolate recipes. I sometimes add Oat Flour instead of the White Flour too. Bittersweet is a gorgeous collection of delicious and beautiful enough for guests desserts.
	Cocolat
	Chocolate and the Art of Low-Fat Desserts
	Cookies and Brownies
	Bittersweet
	A Chocolate Lover's Alphabet
	Butter Sugar Flour Eggs	Gale Gand makes some beautiful and classic desserts as well as fun breakfasts foods.


		Cultural Cookbooks
	The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen	Paula Wolfert put together some great recipes and flavors, most are simple to prepare and are unique. Wonderful pictures and flavors as well as a nice read.
		Jewish Cookbooks
	The New York Times Jewish Cookbook
	The New York Times Passover Cookbook

		Children with Sensitivities
	Feingold Cookbook for Hyperactive Children	Many swear by the Feingold diet for children with sensitivities to foods. I think a whole foods approach to this diet is best, eliminating transfats and hydrogenated oils.


		Science Of Cooking - Not Really Cookbooks but review the hows and whys in fascinating detail
	ON FOOD AND COOKING	Harold McGee - a book suggested by a loyal visitor, Jeffrey, and it looks like a winner to me too!
	I'm Just Here for the Food	Alton Brown shares recipes and techniques.
	I'm Just Here for the Food	What do you need and what can you use that you may already have in your kitchen to do the job? What is the great kitchen multi-tasker and which gadget can you live without?

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