Julie/Julia- What's YOUR Favorite Cookbook

[Lydia]

I just suggested on the nonfiction thread about making up a Chicks on Lit Best of list and think that would be great for cookbooks (since I'm ALWAYS looking and interested). Each person gets to add their favorite cookbook to a list and when you just add the list to your post and add your contribution to the bottom, each member can actually copy a great list of our recommendations!

What do you think?

I'll start:

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

Anyone want to add to it?

[Holli]

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
2. Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition

[Kate]

I love this thread and I love cookbooks!

I am really in love with "A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen," which I bought when my (now) husband moved in with me. He is a vegetarian. It makes wonderful recipes that taste good and (for carnivores like me!) ensure you don't miss meat.

I also love anything by the Everyday Italian chef - Giada De Laurentiis. Excellent pasta recipes.

But my favorite cookbook is the Betty Crocker book of cookies, which was a gift from my aunt Karen. Every woman in my family is given the cookbook when they get married. And it has the recipes for all of my grandma's best cookies :D

[AngieA]

Chicks-on-Lit Best Cookbooks List (copy and paste this entire list into your comment, then add your contribution!)

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
2. Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition
3. "Family Meals" by Maria Helm Sinskey
4. Betty Crocker book of cookies
5. Make-a-Mix Cookery by Eliason and Harwood

[Rose]

Chicks-on-Lit Best Cookbooks List (copy and paste this entire list into your comment, then add your contribution!)

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
2. Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition
3. "Family Meals" by Maria Helm Sinskey
4. Betty Crocker book of cookies
5. Make-a-Mix Cookery by Eliason and Harwood
6. Joy of Cooking 1 - Irma S. Rombauer

[Lydia]

Rose wrote: "Chicks-on-Lit Best Cookbooks List (copy and paste this entire list into your comment, then add your contribution!)

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
2. Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need t..."

Woo-hoo! this is so cool! Should we allow ourselves more than one?

[Leslie]

I absolutely love to find cookbooks from the Junior Leagues across the US. I think my favorite ones are from Augusta, GA & Corpus Christi, TX.

I also love Southern Living Cookbooks. Dillard's has started having them make a special Christmas one now each year where the proceeds goes to the Ronald McDonald house.

[Carrie]

I love any Gooseberry Patch cookbooks!

[Carrie]

A Pinch Of This, A Dash Of That

[Cindy]

Carrie, I get the Gooseberry catalogs and have noticed the cookbooks; wondered if they were good or not! They sure have some neat stuff in their catalog!

[Carrie]

They sure do! I love those catalogs, too!

[AngieA]

Carrie wrote: "I love any Gooseberry Patch cookbooks!"

They are great; actually, I love just about anything Gooseberry Patch!

[AngieA]

Chicks-on-Lit Best Cookbooks List (copy and paste this entire list into your comment, then add your contribution!)

1. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
2. Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition
3. "Family Meals" by Maria Helm Sinskey
4. Betty Crocker book of cookies
5. Make-a-Mix Cookery by Eliason and Harwood
6. Joy of Cooking 1 - Irma S. Rombauer
7. Junior League Cookbooks
8. Southern Living Cookbooks
9. Dillard's Holiday Charity Cookbook
10. A Pinch of This, A Dash of That (Gooseberry Patch)
11. ALL Gooseberry Patch Cookbooks

[Debbie]

I like the church cookbooks or those "locally" produced ones, too! I use American Profile Hometown Cookbook alot! The newspaper I subscribed to, where we used to live, had the little insert regional/state paper on Fridays I think it was. The recipes they printed were "downhome" and they always include the contributer's picture and something about the recipe. So when they came out with the cookbook, of course I had to buy it!
When my daughter went on a mission trip to Trinidad a couple of years ago, she brought back "The MultiCultural Cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago and the Carribean. It's so fun and yummy to try out those recipes!

[Susan]

I cook mostly vegetarian and have a well-loved copy of a vegetarian cooking bible by Lorna Sass. Lorna Sass' Complete Vegetarian Kitchen Where Good Flavors and Good Health Meet Moosewood cookbooks are another favorite-- When we got married, my husband and I had only one duplicate cook book, Moosewood Cooks at Home. Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day and we both cook from it often. This summer the Weber Grilling book was out regularly.Weber's Big Book of Grilling Mostly not vegetarian but, supriseingly good salad and grilled veggie recipes.

[Cyn]

Fannie Farmer and Better Homes and Gardens are my most worn cookbooks., I LOVE "Cooks" and "Bon Apetit" for magazines!

[Nancy]

Speaking of good cooking mags, I'm going to write an obituary! Gourmet magazine is being discontinued. That was one of my Mom's staples and I have really enjoyed the simplicity and elegance of their approach. SAD!!

[SarahSaysRead]

I'm new to cookbooks - I only own a little mass market version of Better Homes and Garden's cookbook. And a crockpot one. I mostly use recipes from family.

However, today I saw that Paperback Swap put out their own cookbook! Recipes from the members, PLUS recipes from authors- including my favorites (Christopher Moore, Diana Gabadlon, and Philippa Gregory). I caved and bought it for $12.

[Cindy]

Sarah, bet that is a neat one! You'll have to let us know how you like it!!

[SarahSaysRead]

I definitely will. I'm so excited to see what kind of recipes the authors put in there!