I only want one, no-nonsense cookbook with all the culinary basics in it. e.g making velutés, soufflés, julienning, choux pastry, bread rolls.
So far my ideas are: culinary course textbook (complete but cumbersome) or vintage home cookery book (they've gone out of fashion so have some dated recipes).
I'm already pretty good at cooking but I want quick access to foundation recipes that I can tweak myself.
Give me the essential cookbook that you would choose if you had no internet.
The Joy of Cooking
Anything by Jamie Oliver, the greatest chef of all time. He really knows what he's talking about. Every other cookbook is just a footnote to Jamie Oliver.
>>8772986
This has got to be a joke. Another rule: it can't be a celebrity/personality. No artsy pictures or textured cover.
>>8772986
Fuck Oliver. He is not a chef. He's an inflated personality.
here's one it's called google and it has all the recipes in the world faggot
>>8773146
This brown person is correct. Why the fuck do people still buy cookbooks?
>>8773161
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>>8773176
None of those are comparable, tard. Recipes on the internet are just cribbed from cookbooks.
>>8773188
Signal to noise ratio, look it up using that magical site you mentioned earlier
>>8773190
Why don't you look up how to get a gf, you autistic weeb
>>8773203
Did someone call you a weeb? Is that why you're posting that in every thread?
>>8773209
Did someone penetrate ur boipussy yet? Because I would like to, faggot.
>>8772977
Thanks but as far as I can tell it's too far removed from the current culture of food that I know (Deep South cooking in the 1940's... too many possums and blueberry pies). Looking for something a bit more European/British - classic soups, stocks, breads, pastries, fondues, and dishes *with names*.