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.
According to Ruth Reichl, the renown editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and former restaurant critic, she and her editors combed through 50,000 recipes from 60 years worth of magazines to find a “treasure-trove of extraordinary recipes and a history of American cooking in its most exciting years”. That’s a ton of history Read the full article...
According to author Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, “We all know that food can often be the source of great pleasure. My question is, why isn’t it always?”. His book The River Cottage Cookbook (a companion to his UK television show) aims to help us Read the full article...
In Appetite, popular UK cookbook author and food writer Nigel Slater’s aim is to give us the confidence and tools to create our own pleasures with food, to find comfort in the kitchen. Appetite is not about getting it right or wrong; it is about liking what you cook. His aim is true and his […] Read the full article...
Fans of Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten will love this beautiful collection of American classic dishes with a modern flare just right for casual entertaining and family meals. Delicious, easy, comfort food beautifully presented. Read the full article...
Part of the Best Recipe series from the editors at Cook’s Illustrated (America’s Test Kitchen), American Classics offers a treasure trove of all-time favorite American dishes—clam chowder, mashed potatoes, and fried chicken, to brownies, carrot cake, and lemon meringue pie—great old fashioned Read the full article...
Sara Moulton, star of The Food Network’s “Cooking Live” and “Sara’s Secrets” has written her first cookbook. An all-purpose book for home cooks of any level, it includes 200 recipes for every meal—and every course. She offers her expert and experienced advice Read the full article...
According to author Sally Schneider, “A New Way to Cook is a redefinition of healthy eating, where no food is taboo, great taste rules and the concept of self-denial just doesn’t exist.” So, if you enjoy cooking and believe that flavor and taste go hand-in-hand with healthy cooking, then this comprehensive all-purpose cookbook Read the full article...
Founded in 1980, Cook’s Illustrated (formerly Cook’s Magazine) has emerged as “America’s Test Kitchen,” renowned for its near-obsessive dedication to finding the optimum methods of American home cooking. The New Best Recipe with 22 chapters and 1,000 plus recipes Read the full article...
Known as the Harvard of cooking schools and credited with having “changed the way Americans eat” by the James Beard Foundation, the Culinary Institute of America has trained a slew of culinary professionals and upon graduation each one would be clutching a well-worn copy of their class “bible”, Read the full article...
The Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook is an all-purpose, no-frills, complete cooking reference that has been a staple in American kitchens since the first edition was published in 1930. The famed red plaid cookbook Read the full article...
