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Culinary Books
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.18 — 366,204 ratings — published 2000
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.40 — 89,414 ratings — published 2017
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,406 ratings — published 2008
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,159 ratings — published 1984
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,418 ratings — published 2006
Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.13 — 196,090 ratings — published 1931
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,414 ratings — published 1961
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.31 — 24,893 ratings — published 2015
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.16 — 92,651 ratings — published 2006
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.77 — 37,131 ratings — published 2001
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.94 — 47,751 ratings — published 2005
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 118,949 ratings — published 2008
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,553 ratings — published 2001
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,536 ratings — published 2010
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,154 ratings — published 2006
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.71 — 160,574 ratings — published 2005
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,732 ratings — published 2013
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,132 ratings — published 1997
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,900 ratings — published 1974
The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,886 ratings — published 1999
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 38,998 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,675 ratings — published 2007
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.00 — 101,441 ratings — published 1998
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,777 ratings — published 1938
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,058 ratings — published 2009
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,443 ratings — published 1990
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 92,539 ratings — published 2021
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,352 ratings — published 2014
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,236 ratings — published 2001
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.68 — 70,350 ratings — published 2000
Yes, Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,588 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,154 ratings — published 1954
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.70 — 10,611 ratings — published 2007
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 33,537 ratings — published 2019
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.89 — 14,412 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,174 ratings — published 1997
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,238 ratings — published 2012
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,473 ratings — published 1976
Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,904 ratings — published 1992
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.75 — 75,708 ratings — published 2002
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,335 ratings — published 2000
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,628 ratings — published 2009
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.15 — 138,880 ratings — published 1953
Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,071 ratings — published 2009
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,731 ratings — published 2003
The Last Suppers (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,208 ratings — published 1994
The Silver Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,202 ratings — published 1950
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,083 ratings — published 2017
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,176 ratings — published 2012
Culinary Artistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,941 ratings — published 1996
“Have you ever been faced with the clear certainty that the culinary arts have a great propensity to rendering themselves unsavory?”
― The Fate of Arcrea
― The Fate of Arcrea
“in the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”
―
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.”
―
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