All Purpose, General

All Purpose, General Cookbooks

Cookbooks We Love presents reviews of our favorite, recommended “All Purpose & General Cookbooks”. These outstanding general cook books are geared towards basic, day-to-day home cooking and new cooks. Featuring a wide selection of popular, straightforward and proven recipes, these cookery books cover a broad range of cuisines, ingredients and cooking styles making them ideal if you have limited space.

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Carla Hall is a famous chef from the TV show The Chew. She uses her smarts and sense of humor in this lovable home-style cookbook. At first glance the book draws you into to it and speaks, “Go ahead and take a look-you’re gonna love it.” Not many books do that. If you do take […] Read the full article...

  Fabulous and simple are how to describe the Art of the Slow Cooker. The author, Andre Schloss is a best-selling author of many books on cooking, and articles on food. In the very first chapter The Art of Homemade Soup you’ll find recipes that will make an appetite spark up. If you are a […] Read the full article...

The Best 30-Minute Recipe provides thoroughly tested ingredients by America’s Test Kitchen and recipes for anyone who wants a delicious dish in a few minutes. The short cuts are tested by professionals to make sure they have that flavor and consistency that makes a recipe special. It’s all about getting ingredients together that make a […] Read the full article...

Who better to produce a culinary course for home cooks than Martha Stewart? Not only is she is a consummate teacher and perfectionist; she is backed by the best cooking assistants and test kitchen around, and afterall, she started her career in the kitchen. In a nutshell, Martha Stewart’s Cooking School is a book of […] Read the full article...

as 10 years really gone by since Mark Bittman published his groundbreaking tome, How to Cook Everything? Judging by the state of the yellow dust jacket on my copy I can believe it. Do I really need this 10th anniversary edition? I’ve grown quite attached to my yellow book and am reluctant to believe it […] Read the full article...

If you love Fine Cooking Magazine, and we do, then you will love this compilation. These are 200 of the best recipes of 2007’s issues. And this book is all about recipes. There is just the right amount of instruction to aid in the basic techniques, other than that each page features beautiful photographs of […] Read the full article...

Every week host Lynne Rosetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift entertain loyal listeners of their national radio show The Splendid Table with a wealth of stories, tips, recipes and original ideas for serving family dinners. Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a leading food authority and cultural historian and Read the full article...

Jamie Oliver is on a mission to change the way we cook, in a good way. He wants us to eat well and make better choices in the food shops and in the process improve our lives and the world we live in. And, with Cook with Jamie, his 7th book he gives us no […] Read the full article...

For Nigella Lawson, celebrated British food writer and food show host, great food is not about cooking but about eating. With her essential cookbook, How to Eat, Nigella shows us how to get the most out of a good meal and in so doing, life itself. Although better equipped than most of us to yield […] Read the full article...