What are some essential books for cooking or some good recipe books?

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We figured out how to cook before we figured out how to write

>>8259996
River road recipes: the textbook of Louisiana cuisine.

It's fantastic, my grandma gave me hers.

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>>8260009
you know what i mean. don't act smart with me pal

Bump. Looking for some good cooking book too. Havent cooked much more then noodles and really simple stuff.

The only book I used growing up was the Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (1985). I don't know if you can still find them or if they're still printing revised ones, but it's a nice book full of all the basics. I started using this to learn how to make sauces and shit when I was in middle school, and didn't stop learning from it until I discovered the internet. The internet might be more useful than cookbooks, but if you want a book, there you go.

>>8259996
What type of cuisine do you want to cook, how much effort do you want to put in? What do you already know?

Should it be just for homemade style cooking or more ambitious meals? French, Italian, Indian, Chinese - what shall it be?