My Cookbook Collection

Submitted by openstacks on Sun, 08/01/2004 - 07:36
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  1. I tried to break these into loose categories (but listing each only once in the case of multiple applicable categories, i.e. Vegetarian and Ethnic). Italicized entries are the ones for which I have a particular affection. I'll finish linking to Amazon later.
  2. All Purpose/General
  3. Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook
  4. A Chef for All Seasons - Ramsey
  5. Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2000
  6. The French Chef Cookbook - Child
  7. Gourmet Cooking for Dummies - Trotter
  8. Grand Diplôme Cooking Course (20 volume set – 1972) – Willan (ed.)
  9. The New Joy of Cooking - Rombauer, Becker and Becker
  10. On Cooking, Volume 1: Techniques from Expert Chefs (2nd Edition) – Labensky and Hayse
  11. The Pampered Chef's Season's Best Recipe Collection Fall/Winter 2005 (Cookbooklet)
  12. Simple to Spectacular – Vongerichten, Bittman
  14. Vegetarian/Vegan
  15. All-American Vegetarian – Grunes, Van Vynckt
  16. Amazing Grains – Saltzman (vegan)
  17. The Art of Chinese Vegetarian Cooking – Hush and Hush
  18. The Artful Vegan: Fresh Flavors from the Millennium Restaurant – Tucker (vegan)
  19. Bean Cuisine – Horsley
  20. Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking – Sahni
  21. The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook - Bishop (simple, tasty fare)
  22. Cook 1.0: A Fresh Approach to the Vegetarian Kitchen – Swanson
  23. Cooking the Whole Foods Way – Pirello (non-dairy, but includes fish)
  24. Cooking with Seitan - Jacobs and Jacobs (vegan - link is to a newer edition)
  25. The Cook’s Encyclopedia of Vegetarian Cooking – Fraser
  26. The Creative Vegetarian Cookbook - Stewart
  27. The Enchanted Broccoli Forest - Katzen
  28. Entertaining with Friends – Hope
  29. The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook - Shaw
  30. Friendly Foods - Pickarski (vegan)
  31. The Healthy Hedonist – Kornfeld ("Flexitarian," so some chicken and fish)
  32. Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking - Devi
  33. Low-fat Vegetarian Cooking – Stacey
  34. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
  35. The Millennium Cookbook - Tucker and Westerdahl (vegan)
  36. The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen – Berley
  37. Meatless Meals for Working People - Wasserman, Stahler
  38. Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable Heaven
  39. Moosewood Cookbook – Katzen (includes fish)
  40. Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home
  41. Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special (includes fish)
  42. Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites - The Moosewood Collective
  43. Natural Foods Cookbook: Vegetarian Dairy-Free Cuisine – Estella (vegan)
  44. The New Vegetarian Cookbook - Abensur
  45. Nikki & David Goldbeck’s American Wholefoods Cuisine
  46. Pasta Verde - Barrett
  47. Real Vegetarian Thai - McDermott
  48. Recipes for a Small Planet – Ewald
  49. Romancing the Bean - Saltzman (vegan)
  50. Simply Heavenly! – Burke (vegan)
  51. The Tao of Cooking – Pasley
  52. The Tassajara Recipe Book - Brown
  53. The Uncheese Cookbook – Stepeniak (vegan)
  54. Vegan World Fusion Cuisine - Reinfeld, Rinaldi (vegan)
  55. Veganomicon - Moskowitz, Romero (vegan)
  56. The Vegetable Bible - Teubner
  57. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone - Madison
  58. Vegetarian: Over 200 Healthy Recipes
  59. Vegetables Rock! – Pierson
  60. Vegetarian Express – Atlas, Kayte
  61. Vegetarian Gourmet (Cole’s Cooking Companion Series)
  62. The Vegetarian Gourmet Cookbook – Southey
  64. Regional/Ethnic
  65. Back Home Again – Junior League of Indianapolis
  66. The Brooklyn Cookbook – Stallworth and Kennedy, Jr. (My grandmother, still alive at 94, has a recipe and photo in this book.)
  67. Christman in Colorado Cook Book – Cahill, ed.
  68. The Classic 1000 Italian Recipes - Gabrielli (This book is mostly significant as the book from which I learned to make risotto.
  69. Cooking Kosher: The Natural Way – Kinderlehrer
  70. Coyote’s Pantry – Miller, Kiffin
  71. Italian Cooking for Dummies – Casella, Bishop
  72. Frédéric Lebain’s Mediterranean Cooking
  73. The Recipes of the Five Brothers: Volume I (Italian)
  74. Winners: Winning Recipes from the Junior League of Indianapolis
  76. Baking/Desserts
  77. 365 Great Chocolate Desserts – Haughton
  78. Baking with Julia - Greenspan
  79. Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book – Cohen and Greenfield
  80. Bernard Clayton’s New Complete Book of Breads
  81. Best of Baking – Wolter and Teubner
  82. Better Homes and Gardens Cookies for Kids
  83. The Big Chocolate Cookbook – Parke
  84. Bon Appetit's Chocolate (magazine-style)
  85. Bon Appetit's Light & Easy Desserts (magazine-style)
  86. The Cake Bible – Berenbaum
  87. Celebrate Chocolate with Hershey’s (more a pamphlet than a book)
  88. Charlie Trotter’s Desserts
  89. The Chocolate Bible - Teubner
  90. The Cookie Cookbook – Clem (sorry, 1966, before the ISBN was widely adopted)
  91. Cookies – Collister
  92. The Cook’s Encyclopedia of Chocolate – McFadden, France
  93. Dangerous Desserts – Murrin
  94. Death by Chocolate Cookies – Desaulniers
  95. Desserts by Pierre Hermé – Greenspan
  96. Easiest and Best Coffee Cakes and Quick Breads - Darling
  97. McCall’s Book of Cakes and Pies (1974)
  98. Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts
  99. Muffins - Alston
  100. Pie & Tart – Weil
  101. Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off Cookbook
  102. Professional Baking - Gisslen
  103. The Professional Pastry Chef - Friberg
  104. Roselyn Cookbook (Roselyn was a great Indianapolis bakery that shut down a few years back. A selection of their products are still made, supposedly using the same recipes, by another distributor, but it’s just not the same)
  105. Simply Sensational Desserts - Herbst
  106. The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook - Lacalamita
  108. Miscellaneous Single Topic
  109. 3-Ingredient Slow Cooker Recipes - Bonet
  110. Blender Baby Food - Young
  111. Charlie Trotter’s Seafood
  112. Charlie Trotter’s Vegetables (all vegetable recipes, but definitely not vegetarian)
  113. Cooking With Beer - LW Press (cookbooklet)
  114. Cuisine à la Vapeur - Manière
  115. David Rosengarten Entertains: Fabulous Parties for Food Lovers
  116. Dr. BBQ's Big-Time Barbecue Cookbook - Lampe
  117. The Fabulous Fondue Cookbook – Reingold, Kaufman
  118. Fish & Shellfish, Grilled & Smoked - Adler & Fertig
  119. FunFare with Cherries – Cherry Marketing Institute (cookbooklet)
  120. Martha Stewart’s Hors d’Oeuvres Cookbook
  121. Pears - Eckhardt
  122. Risotto – Barrett
  123. Salad People (a children's cookbook) - Katzen
  124. Sensational Preserves - Walden
  126. Beverages
  127. Complete Home Bartender’s Guide - Calabrese
  128. Field Guide to Cocktails - Chirico
  129. Mr. Boston Official Bartender’s Guide
  130. Smoothies – Barber, Corperning and Narlock
  132. Not cookbooks, but gastrocentric
  133. Becoming a Chef – Dornerburg and Page (This does have recipes, but I don’t feel that they're the heart of the book)
  134. The Chocolate Lover’s Guide to the Pacific Northwest - Hasselbring
  135. The Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi - Lowry
  136. Culinary Artistry – Dornenburg and Page (see comments for Becoming a Chef)
  137. Delights and Prejudices – Beard
  138. How to Open Your Own Restaurant - Ware, Rudnick
  139. The Making of a Chef – Ruhlman
  140. On Food and Cooking - McGee
kbuxton08/02/2004

Nice list. If you had to recommend one or two of the vegetarian/vegan ones, which would you pick?

openstacks08/02/2004

Fair question. Of course, the answer is...it depends. Most people would consider Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone to be something of a modern bible on the topic, but I don't find myself reaching for it too often. For gourmet vegan haute cuisine, The Millennium Cookbook is my favorite. For great simple cuisine, the Italian Vegetarian Cookbook. All-American Vegetarian has some really interesting regional fare. If you're looking for cheese alternatives, you absolutely must have The Uncheese Cookbook (or anything else by Joanne Stepeniak) and Simply Heavenly has lots of interesting vegan fare. Although I don't own it, How It All Vegan is also a lot of fun. Hope that helps.

kbuxton08/02/2004

Cool, thanks. I don't have any of those, so I'll have to go looking next time I'm in a bookstore.

cmonster10/14/2004

How do you like Death by Chocolate Cookies?

openstacks10/19/2004

I've honestly only made a few of the items, but they were all great. Most of the recipes are not nearly as complex as the cover would suggest.

r.bindhamer08/28/2005

I saw on the listology.com site that you had a copy of the Roselyn Bakery Cookbook. Last time I was home on leave from the Air Force I had a craving for one of their Boston Creme Pies. It was quite a surprise when I found out they were out of business (due to continuous health department inspection issues). They weren't that bad when I was growing up. Anyway, now I guess there is no source for them. Could I trouble someone for a copy of the recipe? It would make this Master Sergeant's day.

timada11/14/2009

Thank you for the links. Nice to actually know more on those books than just the title. I am planning to start cooking some of the delicious recipes from some of these cookbooks... but after I will be able to buy a new oven. My old oven broke and I am cooking now only with my update international cooker.