Looking to expand my cookbook and cooking-related-book collection. What books should be in every keen amateur cook's bookcase, /ck/?
>>7355037
your grandparent's cookbook. Any recipe younger than 2 generations probably is shit desu familio. No one needs double stuffed slutty brownies.
>>7355038
If only, anon, if only
>>7355040
Pretty much the opposite of what I'm after
>>7355045
then go get ur great granmum's cookbook you lazy faggot
Wiley's Professional Cooking
Silver Spoon
Mrs. Beeton's
The Omnivore's Dilemma (somewhat tangential but fascinating)
On Food and Cooking
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking if you're rich
Kitchen Confidential
The Whole Beast
>>7355089
I've got the new edition. Pretty sure it's just a small amount of additional content, but somebody may correct me on that.
What kind of fucktard gets book-pattern wallpaper?
Let me guess: they wanted to look smart and well-read without actually owning books or reading them.
>>7355037
Can't help you op. Hope you get a good answer.
All I needed to say was fuck that image. Disgust to the pit of my stomach.
White Heat by MPW
The Whole Beast as per the other anon
Bread by Hamelman
>>7355037
Your image has triggered me harder than anything else I've seen on /ck/.
Is it just the same handful of books in every cubby hole, or is it a handful of volumes just haphazardly thrown into a bookshelf?
>>7356163
Autism alert
Go count some toothpicks or something
>>7355037
>for beginners
How to Cook Everything
>for nerds
The Food Lab
>for advanced cooks inventing dishes
The Flavor Bible
I have all three and I tend to use HTCE the most. It has a shit ton of recipes and useful ideas for substitutions and variations, I usually try and cross reference recipes I find online with it just to see if it is a bit nutty. I feel like it gives me some better insight to do this
A Girl Called Jack
Y'all will probably hate her because she is full on tumblr but she has amazing budget recipes.
>>7356163
You are safe anon, calm down.
It's a wallpaper.
>>7356876
I like AGCJ. Really admire how she went from literally nothing after being laid off to being a published writer, despite the tabloid press tearing her a new one every other day