My Cookbook Collection

Not just cookbooks but food memoirs and children’s books about food too, the list is always changing. I’m constantly adding to it, and sometimes (although rarely) taking away from it, whatever the case these are the books I own and am quite fond of.

A

• The Amish Cook: Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family by
• Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
• Are You Really Going to Eat That?: Reflections of a Culinary Thrill Seeker by
• Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love . . . and the Mothers Who Dished It Up for Them by
• The Arthur Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from the Real Little Italy by Ann Volkwein
• Artisan Baking by Maggie Glezer

B

• The Baker’s Apprentice
• A Baker’s Tour: Nick Malgieri’s Favorite Baking Recipes from Around the World by Nick Malgieri’s
• Baking in America: Traditional and Contemporary Favorites from the Past 200 Years
• The Barbados Cookbook
• Beard on Pasta
• Best Food Writing 2000
• Best Thing I Ever Tasted: The Secret of Food
• The Bialy Eaters: The Story of a Bread and a Lost World
• Blackberry Wine: A Novel
• Blue Jelly: Love Lost and the Lessons of Canning
• The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book
• Bruce Aidells’s Complete Book of Pork: A Guide to Buying, Storing, and Cooking the World’s Favorite Meat

C

• The Cake Club: Delicious Desserts and Stories from a Southern Childhood
• Cakes & Cake Decorating
• Caribbean Cookbook Authentic Recipes
• Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy
• A Celebration of Soup: With Classic Recipes from Around the World
• Champagne: How the World’s Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
• The Cheese-Lover’s Kitchen Handbook (Illustrated Encyclopedia S.)
• Chicken Soup Cookbook
• Ciao Italia–Bringing Italy Home
• The Classic 1,000 Chinese Recipes
• Classic Italian Jewish Cooking: Traditional Recipes and Menus
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
• Coffee
• The Complete Book of Caribbean Cooking
• Complete Guide to Home Canning, Preserving & Freezing
• Consuming Passions: A Food-Obsessed Life
• The Cook Pack: Twenty No-Fail Three-Course Meals for Two
• A Cook’s Tour of Mexico: Authentic Recipes from the Country’s Best Open-Air Markets, City Fondas, and Home Kitchens
• A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
• Cookies (Little Guides (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Cooking at Home on Rue Tatin
• Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family
• Crescent: A Novel
• Curries Without Worries: An Introduction to Indian Cuisine

D

• Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook

E

• Eating My Words: An Appetite For Life
• The Epicure’s Lament
• Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm

F

• The Festive Christmas Cookbook: A Treasury of Old Traditions, Recipes and Lore of the Christmas Season
• Food for Thought: Being a Compendium of Culinary Quips, Quotes, Anectodes, Facts & Recipes by the Great and Not-So-Great
• The Food of Italy
• The French Laundry Cookbook
• From Curries to Kebabs: Recipes from the Indian Spice Trail
• From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals
• The Frugal Gourmet
• The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American
• The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Italian: Recipes from the New and Old Worlds, Simplified for the American Kitchen
• The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines
• The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors
• The Frugal Gourmet Whole Family Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections for Contemporary Living

G

• Going with the Grain: A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life
• GOOD FOOD FROM SWEDEN INCLUDING SMORGASBORD : A Choice Collection of 300 Tested Recipes for Everyday and Party Menus
• Growing Up in a Korean Kitchen: A Cookbook

H

• The Haggis: A Little History
• Happy in the Kitchen: The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating
• How to Drink a Glass of Wine (Ginger Series)
• How to grow herbs for gourmet cooking, including 100 recipes from 25 countries

I

• The Il Fornaio Baking Book: Sweet and Savory Recipes from the Italian Kitchen
• In My Mother’s Kitchen: 25 Writers on Love, Cooking, and Family
• In the Drink: A Novel
• Indian Cookery
• Indian Regional Classics: Fast, Fresh, and Healthy Home Cooking
• Ismail Merchant’s Passionate Meals: The New Indian Cuisine for Fearless Cooks and Adventurous Eaters

J

• The Joy of Juicing Recipe Guide
• Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing
• Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking

K

• Karibu Welcome to the Cooking of Kenya (Kenway Publications Imprint)
• Kitchen Wisdom

L

• La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture
• The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
• The Legend of the Villa Della Luna: The Sequel to the Secrets of Pistoulet
• Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
• Lonely Planet World Food Italy (Lonely Planet World Food Guides)

M

• Making Your Own Gourmet Tea Drinks: Black Teas, Green Teas, Scented Teas, Herb Teas, Iced Teas, and More!
• The Man Who Ate Everything
• A Meal Observed
• Mediterranean Street Food
• Miriam’s Kitchen: A Memoir
• My Brother’s Farm

N

• The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
• New World Kitchen: Latin American and Caribbean Cuisine

O

• On Persephone’s Island: A Sicilian Journal

P

• Pass the Polenta: And Other Writings from the Kitchen, with Recipes
• Pearls of Kitchen Wisdom: Tips, Shortcuts, and Recipes from a Country Home
• Penguin Eizabeth David Cookery Book Set (5 Volumes)
• The Perfect Egg: And Other Secrets
• Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food)
• The Pharaoh’s Feast: From Pit-Boiled Roots to Pickled Herring, Cooking Through the Ages with 100 Simple Recipes
• Pig Tails ‘n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir
• Pot on the Fire: Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook
• Putting Food By (Plume)

Q

R

• The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen
• Read It and Eat: A Month-By-Month Guide to Scintillating Book Club Selections and Mouthwatering Menus

S

• Salt: A World History
• Seasons in Basilicata: A Year in a Southern Italian Hill Village
• Secrets of Pistoulet
• Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots
• The Soup Bible
• Soupsongs/Webster’s Ark
• Specialties Of The House Great Recipes That Guests Ask For
• Spices (Cook’s Kitchen Reference)
• Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
• Substituting Ingredients: An A to Z Kitchen Reference
• Sweet Maria’s Cookie Jar: 100 Favorite, Essential Recipes for Everyone Who Loves Cookies
• Sweets (A History of Candy)

T

• A Tale of 12 Kitchens: Family Cooking in Four Countries
• The Talisman Italian Cookbook: Italy’s bestselling cookbook adapted for American kitchens
• Truffles, Candies, & Confections: Elegant Candymaking in the Home

U

V

• Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

W

• Waffles: From Morning to Midnight

X

Y

Z

Posted by: Deb | 02-05-2007 | 08:02 AM