What is your favorite cookbook?
Harriet Stay
Better Homes & Gardens from the 1970s and BETTY FURNESS WESTINGHOUSE COOKBOOK 1960. I have approx 200 cookbooks, but use recipes from these two more often, not counting the two recipe file boxes I use continually.
Kellie
Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats
Joan Myles
Barefoot Contessa at Home
Sandra Lee Smith
This is tough because I *collect* cookbooks and have over 5000 of them. You may think this odd, but my favorite is something called GRANDMA'S FAVORITE, which was a cookbook compiled by my family and published in 2002. All the family favorites are in it!
Brenda Tucker
Joy of Cooking
Sandy Thomas
NEWMAN'S OWN COOKBOOK by Paul Newman And A. E. Hotchner
Pooch
Joy of Cooking
Rebecca
My favorite cookbook is COOKIN COUSINS FIVE GENERATIONS OF COOKING TRADITIONS and it is our own self-published family cookbook. We put it together in 1991 for a big family reunion. It includes old family pictures of our grandparents and parents and an extensive family tree. In a large family like ours, it is invaluable for those marrying into the family and trying to get all of the relationships straight. The recipes are almost all easy enough for any level cook. When dining at a cousin's home and eating something tasty, the inevitable question comes up, "Is it in "The Book"? Seventeen years later, we are all still using our copies of "The Book" and scrounging up copies for the new brides in the family. It is a highly worthwhile project and a great way to honor the great cooks in the family who may have passed on.
Carol Fox
COMPLETE INTERNATIONAL JEWISH COOKBOOK by Evelyn Rose.
Judy Haskell
THE UNCOMMON GOURMET by Ellen Hellman
Vicky Burkholder
Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking
Sandy H.
NEW BEST RECIPES - Cook's Illustrated
A multitude of Cooking Light and Southern Living annuals.
Michele Lauer-Bader
I don't have one favorite cookbook. I have several hundred and probably use 10 regularly.
Debbie Wernert
When in doubt about something in a recipe, JOY OF COOKING always has an answer.
Janet Hoyt
My favorite cookbook is still the first cook book I got, which was THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK, which was given to me by my mother. It's nearly fifty years old. another favorite is PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COOKBOOK OF FINE OLD RECIPES --- it is fun to read and hold lots of memories.
Noreen Brown
Better Homes & Gardens Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes
Jean
Joy of Cooking
Regina Barnes
Joy of Cooking
Dolores Purzycki
Weight Watchers All-Time Favorites
Debi
TREASURED ALABAMA RECIPES by Katherine Tucker Windham, because it was my mother's.
Ann Bowen
Better Homes and Gardens, the Breast Cancer Edition, 2006
Lita Jones
SHARP CAROUSEL MICROWAVE COOKBOOK --- I am learning all the things I can cook in the microwave that I thought had to be done on a stove top, esp. pasta and rice.
I love to read any of the self-published cookbooks form churches, etc.
Pam
Joy of Cooking 75th Anniversary Edition
Ellen
The cookbook I reach for most often is BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS NEW COOKBOOK: Limited Edition "Pink", with the special section, "Eating for Life." This includes a special breast cancer awareness and risk reduction section and supports the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
I am also trying the recipes from ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, by Barbara Kingsolver, recommended to me by a good friend.
Peggy
JOY OF COOKING --- It is absolutely a must in cookbooks and it has everything in it.
Ruth Cusick
American International Encyclopedic Cookbook
Janey Nichols
I like the ones that have simple ingredients and lots of pictures. The BETTY CROCKER BIG BOOK taught me to cook. Mainly, I use allrecipe.com now.
Jeanette F. Milliner
Cuisine At Home
Marykay Mullin
FOR GOODNESS SAKE by the JL of Rochester, NY
Joan Siegel
The Kosher by Design series by Susie Fishbein
Mary Q.
COLORADO CACHE COOKBOOK from the Junior League of Denver
Carol
An old Betty Crocker cookbook that I got as a wedding present back in 1962.
Nina
There are so many! It depends on what I am cooking. I love my Italian cookbooks, especially those written by Maryann Esposito, as she cooks the way my mother and grandmother did. I love Jeff Smith's Frugal Gourmet cookbooks also. Rachael Ray is a new favorite of mine for weeknight cooking. I also have an entire cookbook devoted to Risotto and another devoted to Soup. I use those a lot at this time of year. My cookbook shelf runneth over... I love them all for different reasons and spend many happy hours reading them and planning my meals. At this time of year, I try to make a "new" recipe each week, and then we vote as to whether this is a "keeper" or not.
Joan Cady
My favorite cookbook is one I made myself using collected recipes from newspapers, magazines and friends. I slip them into transparent notebook pages and group them into categories.
Every once in awhile, I go through them and remove ones that I haven't used recently.
Cynthia
Cooking for Two
Sandra Hughes
I have several Southern Living annual cookbooks that go back to the '60s that I dearly love. They have old recipes you don't even hear of anymore!
Peggy
I have more than one. Any of Giada De Laurentiis's cookbooks, any of the Barefoot Contessa's, or NOTEWORTHY.
Karen
Barefoot Contessa at Home
Beth Cummings
The SAN ANTONIO JUNIOR LEAGUE COOKBOOK I bought as a souvenir in 1989. It has great Tex-Mex and Southern recipes.
Cynthia Baxter
At the moment, it is Copeland Marks's THE KOREAN OF THE MORNING: Classic Recipes from the Land of the Morning Calm." There is a recipe in there for Spicy Tofu that is to die for --- we have been trying to eat more healthy foods and this one is a winner in our house.
Juanita
My original Betty Crocker, which I received as a shower gift fro 36 years ago. I also enjoy Cooking Light Magazine.
Peggy Tarrant
Rachel Ray magazine recipes
Lori
Good old BETTY CROCKER DIABETES COOKBOOK
Diane
Whole Foods Cookbook
M. Smolinski
HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING by Mark Bittman
Dorothy Cowling
Any one of the Best of Bridge cookbooks or the Company's Coming cookbooks
Rita Carter
My favorite cookbook is the BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK that I received as a shower gift when I got married in 1968. It's a loose leaf book with many stained and even missing pages pages, and no cover now, but the new "Betty" just isn't the same. Since I got married and moved to Panama for the first 2 years of my marriage, I couldn't have cooked without Betty and the pictures in the cookbook and I couldn't call Mom!
Lea Ann in Seattle
The original JOY OF COOKING, which was given to me as a wedding gift in May of 1953. It's held together by duct tape and a big rubber band, but I'd not even consider getting the newer edition. Old habits die hard, as the old saying goes. I love that book.
Diane
We go to Cape May on vacations and I love the recipes in the AMERICAN COUNTRY INN AND BED AND BREAKFAST COOKBOOK. I subscribe to Taste of Home Magazine and I have a collection of about 8 years' of cookbooks with their recipes. I also use THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK for favorites.
Danelle Drake
BETTER HOMES & GARDENS RED CHECK COOKBOOK is a great thing to have!
Kay
Any Cooking Light cookbook. It's hard to pick one, they are all fantastic.
Joan Lev
Fannie Farmer Boston Cooking School Cookbook
Becky Haase
My all time favorite for general cooking is THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK. But I also have my own cookbook that I have added to over the years, which has old family favorites (my great grandmothers persimmon pudding recipe) and remakes of food I have eaten abroad (African Irio --- a potato/corn/spinach dish) and Cheese Puffs from Bolivia.
Connie
My favorite cookbook is Betty Crocker. I even have a learn-to-cook book for children by Betty Crocker and that was my first cookbook and I still have it.
Michelle Miller
I like the Fix-It and Forget-It series of cookbooks by Phyllis Pellman Good. The slowcooker book is excellent and I've just ordered her 5-ingredient cookbook. I can't wait to get it!
Sue Hahm
Good Housekeeping
Trish Harrison
I love the old JOY OF COOKING. My copy was printed in 1950. I found it at a garage sale. This is the cookbook my mother always used. I learned to cook using this book.
Pam
LEAN AND LUSCIOUS AND MEATLESS by Bobbie Hinman & Millie Snyder
Freda McNulty
Mary Margaret McBride's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COOKING
Joanne
I change all the time, but the Pampered Chef holidays book is a favorite. RACHAEL RAY 365: NO REPEATS is very interesting.
Kathleen Horch
The Cooking Light annual cookbooks
Sharon Lumb
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Jane Haase
I actually have three cookbooks I can't live without:
For all "how to" questions and some old favorite recipes, I depend on THE BETTER HOMES AND GARDEN NEW COOKBOOK. I'm not sure what version I have, but I've had it since 1976.
To cook a meal that always gets raves from guests, I turn to VINTAGE VICKSBURG, a cookbook by the Vicksburg Jr. Auxiliary.
For party and special meals, I open the pages of AMBROSIA, the newest cookbook by the Vicksburg Jr. Auxiliary. This one is especially fun because it contains quirky stories of the people of Vicksburg and parties where these dishes have been served. I can read these and laugh while I cook!
Dar Sery
A family cookebook created by my daughter, Susan.
Lisa
I like the Cajun Cookbooks of South Louisiana taken out of the newspaper twice a year. I think the name is Flavors of Acadiana. It's in the Lafayette Louisiana Daily Advertiser newspaper.
I also like the quarterly cookbooks from Kraft, Kraft Food and Family. They are like magazines with real food that's easy, has simple ingredients, can be enjoyed by the whole family, and most importantly --- QUICK!
Wendy Cathcart
Joy of Cooking
Linda M. Johnson
Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook
Jaye
The Barefoot Contessa cookbooks.
Sandy Person
FRESH EVERY DAY by Sara Foster
Coral Harrison
Better Homes and Gardens
Richard Bartels
Craig Claiborne's THE NEW YORK TIMES COOKBOOK
Sonia
Moosewood Restaurant
Bev Uebel
Southern Living Yearly Cookbook
Bridget
Betty Crocker Cookbook
Billie Mcham
GARVIN COUNTY COOKBOOK --- This is several years old and was put together by the women that live in Garvin County, Oklahoma. Mostly I use cooks.com on the internet.
Jean Kruse
THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK: It usually has all the answers I need.
Georgene
BETTY CROCKER'S PICTURE COOKBOOK from 1950.
Ginny Wexler
Time Life Series's COOKING OF ITALY --- I've had it since 1970 and continue to use it most out of the 440 cookbooks I own.
Bob Hartzo
Anything by Emeril Lagasse
Mary Ferwerda
Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader
Susan Yoneda
The Moosewood Cookbook
Lynn
BAREFOOT CONTESSA IN PARIS, plus her other cookbooks. The recipes are easy and delicious.
Mary Nelson
King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking
Dorothy Flood
Betty Crocker
Irish
Cook's
Patti D.
My favorite is THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK.
Karen B
Square Table
Allison
Any of Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals cookbooks. Anything longer is too long.
Susan Myers
THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK --- it is the same one my mother always used!
NMc
The New James Beard
Either of the Silver Palate books
Any Sunset Recipes Annual
THE COMPLETE GARLIC LOVER'S COOKBOOK
TIMOTHY'S RESTAURANT COOKBOOK
Jamille Krupa
anything by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Mrs. Maria Jaskolka
Books by Chef Michel Nischan
Linda K. Jitmoud
The Joy of Cooking
Fran
The Best-Kept Secret of Healthy Living by Sandra Woodruff. It has quick, easy and nutritious meals that can be prepared with ingredients found around the home. Love this cookbook.
Karen Terry
POTS, PANS & PIONEERS --- The authors lived in News Orleans before Katrina, but I think their business was destroyed.
F Tessa Bartels
The Joy of Cooking
Julianne Perretta
ROCCO'S REAL-LIFE RECIPES by Rocco DiSpirito
Glenda Bogan
Sunflower Sampler
Linda Hernandez
Barefoot Contessa Family Style
Anne Uecker
Any of the Barefoot Contessa books
J Philpott
THE VICTORY GARDEN COOKBOOK by Marian Morash
Brenda
I love the Southern Living annual recipes for each year. I love cookbooks in general, so it would be very hard for me to pick just one.
Lindy
I've got 2 faves: BISCUITS AND SCONES by Elizabeth Alston
DELISH by Philip R. Craig and Shirley Prada Craig
Kathy Vieira
The Taste of Home annual cookbooks are my favorites. The recipes are always delicious and usually easy and quick enough for a working mom to prepare. I buy them every year.
Kathleen Cutsail
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook
Kathleen Cutsail
America's Test Kitchen
Lori Barnes
Paula Deen
Farnham Maxwell
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
