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Do you even own a cookbook anymore?

My wife has a stack of them. She usually asks for one or two each year at Christmas. Books that result in tasty food are the best kind of books.
 
No, but I have a professional chef friend with a pretty good collection that I raid on occasion. Most of them are about food history or, at least, written with a narrative to accompany each recipe. The recipe is almost incidental as to why I read them.

Most of the time I only need exact recipes when baking and I usually consult the internet for those.
 
I have an old joy of cooking, but I don't use it. I actually rarely use a recipe now days since I don't do any baking.
 
i havent bought one in over 10 years. but i still have all the ones i've purchased, > 20 books. the internet does make for a great reference.
 
I've got the Better Homes and Gardens classic red and white one. 14th Edition I think. I'd love to find one of the old ones like my Mom has. They don't have as many "can of this" on the ingredient list.
 
I still have many, but I haven't opened them in years.

The internet is my recipe book now. It's awesome to have hundreds of reviews to judge a recipe before you even try it. And once I find the good ones, I copy it to a word document and store it in my recipe folder.
 
Bouchon by Thomas Keller - Use it regularly. Actually using it right now to make beef bourginon for dinner.

The French Laundry by Thomas Keller - Coffee table book for sure. It's a bit too intense to actually make anything from for me.
 
I've never had any and more than ever, there's Zero need today.

Laptop + wifi + internet = portable cookbook world can offer in your kitchen counter.

Why pay $25 for a cook book that has no reviews & user feedback? You're just paying for the food photographer.
 
We have a bunch, mostly because her mom gives us 1 or 2 of them at Christmas every year. I do most of the cooking and my wife does all of the baking, and any time we need a recipe we usually use the laptop. But on occasion, we will look through a cookbook, especially for something ethnic - I have some good Italian, Thai and French books.
 
OUCaptain said:
I've got the Better Homes and Gardens classic red and white one. 14th Edition I think. I'd love to find one of the old ones like my Mom has. They don't have as many "can of this" on the ingredient list.
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ha, i remember flipping through a cookbook with recipes like that. i was expecting to turn the page to see a recipe for a pizza that had one ingredient list: "frozen pizza from supermarket".
 
Yep, sure do. Most of them are locally written cookbooks sold/given away at local churches and community events. Local flavor >*.

However, if you do want a mass-produced cookbook, I'd recommend any of the Joy of Cooking books by Irma Rombauer. There are many iterations of it, but I've found it to be the most useful one out there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Cooking

On another note, try http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ if you want some internet recipes. That site was particularly fun to try a few recipes from.
 
nah, i cook things like hamburger helper, somtimes i'll get creative and maybe make a grilled chicken salad or something... kinda a lazy cook lol
 
the internet is great if I know exactly what I want to make, but I love my cookbooks for inspiring me to cook things that I wouldn't have even thought of otherwise.

Why pay $25 for a cook book that has no reviews & user feedback? You're just paying for the food photographer.
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because it's from a known source (or you read the book reviews on amazon)? I'd trust my America's Test Kitchen cookbooks over any random online recipe with a few dozen reviews.
 
I own several, but haven't the resources to try them out as well as I'd like. Internet is fine and all but I don't really care for searching for recipes that way.
 
OUCaptain said:
I've got the Better Homes and Gardens classic red and white one. 14th Edition I think. I'd love to find one of the old ones like my Mom has. They don't have as many "can of this" on the ingredient list.
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I have the first edition. I got that from my mom after she died.

I also have the Meat Cook Book and the Casserole Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens.
 
Yeah but I tend to keep it away from the wife, else she gets all starry-eyed and makes a giant mess of the kitchen.
 
Old chef:
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New chef:
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Now that's progress.
 
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