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| What are your favorite cookbooks? A couple come to mind for here are Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day and Home Made in the Kitchen. I have been using Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day for a few months and love the convience that it gives you to throw a loaf together in a few minutes. You get about four days worth of loaves in each batch. It has several master recipes that can be varied for dozen of styles of loaves. It even has recipes for other products such as pretzels and pizza doughs. Home Made in the Kitchen is a fantastic book that covers all sort of "old school" skills from preserving to oils, vinegars & condiments, from dairy products to kitchen growing & drying. Jim
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I have a large collection of cookbooks. My old Heart of the Home cookbooks from Capper's Weekly are my favorites. I also often use The Complete Dairy Foods Cookbook by E. Annie Proulx.
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| My favorite cookbooks are my really old one's from local churches and ladies circles they were passed down to me by my mom when I moved out of the house. Some of them don't actually have measurements just say a hand full of this or just say cook in a hot oven for an hour! But the food is good!
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| Betty crocker book from the 60's are best. Real food for real people who don't nuke meals. I need actual food and can't stand stuff that is made in less than 15 mins.
My grandmother's books are old school, but werre write Pre-radio wave oven. 
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| The Professional Chef The book contains recipies, but more importantly it contains how to do different procedures. It has procedures to do almost anything. From butchering (Breaking down not slaughter) animals to how to make a proper creme brulee. Recipe's are nice, techniques are better.
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I've read, literally, hundreds of cookbooks and most of my favorites are from the past. Magazines don't necessarily qualify as cookbooks, but Fine Cooking puts out a bound issue of their magazines each year. In my opinion it's the best cooking magazine out there. All the recipes are aimed at everyday people like you and me. We've never had a failure.
But on to cookbooks. Try Marcia Adam's HeartLand Cooking series. Just great! Look for the original Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash, we turn to that over and over.
A few lost treasures - A Treasury Of Great Recipes by (of all people) Vincent Price (you won't know him if you're under 50) and his wife - a treasure! All of the BEAUTIFUL series cookbooks - take you around the world with fabulous recipes of various countries.
Many of the newer cookbooks are also terrific, although many of the recipes are beyond us normal day to day cooks. I'm not usually too enthralled by TV chefs and often find their recipes a bit off.
For an amazing read (although you may never cook from it) try The French Laundry cookbook.
I could go on and on. Try ebay if you are interested a huge variety of cookbooks.
Okay...BEST (?)
Betty Crocker ( all editions)
Better Homes and Gardens
Fine Cooking - yearly bound editions
and try all of the others.
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| I would have to agree about the celeb cooks, however I did find one that I really enjoy and their food is very every day, at least here in the South and that is The Neeleys, They just have some wonderful Southern receipes that are just wonderful and barbeque receipes for everything. They are a must try
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Tiffle, thanks for the ebay tip. I shop ebay and am not sure why I never tried them for cookbooks.
I also love the Victory Garden book - lots of wonderful recipes and ideas. Another one is a collection put out years ago by Harrowsmith, recipes from kitchen cooks who've adapted recipes to fit.
Joy of Cooking I seldom get recipes from, but as a reference guide it's good.
For those who love to work with fruit, Summer Berries has some wonderful treats.
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| I have dozens of cookbooks, but I rely on Joy of Cooking and Betty Crocker for learning the basics about storing and preparing foods and using different techniques for cooking. They are two must-haves for every cook. But my favorite cookbook of all is Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral. It is hilariously respectful-- and downright proud-- of the custom of taking food to the bereaved and contains wonderful recipes that can be used for all occasions. I made the best chicken salad I've ever tasted using the book's recipe. Of course, the real homemade mayonnaise recipe makes all the difference. This cookbook also makes a great gift to anyone whether they like to cook or not.
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| I use my Silver Palate cookbook a lot but my favorites are the cookbooks from church groups, junior leagues, etc.... They have so many great recipes!
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