Eat Your Books

Bonniem on June 25, 2014

One of my favorite cookbooks is the Back in the Day Bakery cookbook.

Ambrosia on June 25, 2014

Rose's Heavenly Cakes!

wkmc57 on June 25, 2014

My favorite cookbook is The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook

Kerrey on June 25, 2014

My favorite cookbook changes by the day. Today it is Spain.

AmandaS on June 25, 2014

At the moment Shannon Bennett's "My Vue" is getting a good work out along with "Heston Blumenthal at home"

southerncooker on June 25, 2014

That's a hard question for me since I love so many of my cookbooks. Usually when I'm asked this question I say it's my latest addition that I'm cooking from at the moment and in this case it's The New Midwestern Table by Amy Thieland.

JodieE on June 25, 2014

Stephanie Alexander's Cook's companion. It's my go to kitchen bible but even better now that there's an accompanying App!

NikkiK on June 25, 2014

Didn't realise Rafflecopter wanted my username – oops! I gave my full name. Anyway my favourite cookbook has to be Appetite by Nigel Slater – I still keep returning to it, 10 years on.

belgravia on June 25, 2014

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman. So many delicious, now-standard-in-this-house recipes (and variations).

agardenworm on June 25, 2014

Bill Granger – Holiday

Nsteinen on June 25, 2014

Any of Peter Reinhart's bread baking books and Claypot Cooking by Paula Wolfert

Sofie168 on June 25, 2014

King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking

winingwife on June 25, 2014

My favorite cookbook is The Boston Globe Cookbook. I found it at a Friends of the Library booksale, and it's awesome.

Zosia on June 25, 2014

Ottolenghi: The Cookbook

rhelune on June 25, 2014

The Enlightened Kitchen by Mari Fujii

ljskop on June 25, 2014

The Splendid Table, by Lynne Rosetto Kasper. (2 of my cousins also bought the book, separately; our parents came from Emilia Romagna, and that was one of the first cookbooks specializing in that region's cuisine.
Linda S., or ljskop

cambridgecook on June 25, 2014

Still find Jerusalem very inspirational.

percussion03 on June 25, 2014

I'm never good at picking favorites, but Emmanuel Hadjiandreou's How to Make Bread has gotten the most use recently.

Toppermom on June 25, 2014

My favorite cookbook is We Called It Macaroni by Nancy Verde Barr is a much used favorite.

cjannace on June 26, 2014

My favorite cookbook is Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals 2. It has some of my favorite go-to recipes.

Kelli_L on June 26, 2014

My favourite is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage Everyday Veg. Love it!

gjnmc on June 26, 2014

My Favourite book is Baking Day by The Australian Women's Weekly. I have cooked so many recipes from this book.

veronicafrance on June 26, 2014

Hard to imagine EYB members having only one favourite cookbook 🙂 But one of mine is Mireille Johnston's Complete French Cookery Course because she helped me learn to cook classic French food without fuss.

bfg67 on June 26, 2014

favourite – larousse gastronomique

pokarekare on June 26, 2014

Stephanie Alexander's Cook's Companion!

GillB on June 26, 2014

Jo Seagars Nifty Tricks for Entertaining

fionahw on June 26, 2014

The Cooks Companion, Stephanie Alexander

jd5761 on June 26, 2014

Best of alison holst

barbarae on June 26, 2014

Alice Waters Chez Panisse Vegetables

Bettinarose on June 26, 2014

At the moment Three Good Things by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall – simple, effective and always delicious.

hillsboroks on June 26, 2014

The New Basics Cookbook is still the one I turn to. I used my first paperback copy until it fell to pieces and am now on my second copy plus a used hardback copy I just found at Gooowill.

Berryd on June 26, 2014

Hard to choose one. Locking Curtis Stone's What's for Dinner right now.

Kp101 on June 26, 2014

Too many faves to pick just one, so I'll give a shout out to Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist, which was a gift (I'd never heard of her) and surprised me by the sheer number of successes. Many family favorites in those stained pages.

alisonkc on June 26, 2014

My favorite is the Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, followed closely by Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone.

susie87 on June 26, 2014

Current tie b/t Accidental Vegan and It's All Good

Neferankh on June 26, 2014

World Street Food is my favourite at the moment.

Harlen on June 26, 2014

The New Basics

PegMallon on June 26, 2014

The first of my now thousand plus collection, The Joy of Cooking

homeeccentric on June 26, 2014

The Moosewood Cookbook

wanda72 on June 26, 2014

My favorite cookbook is Butter Sugar Flour Eggs by Gale Gand.

Gunnygoo on June 26, 2014

So many to choose from… Moosewood

jggeb on June 26, 2014

The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook

EGod on June 26, 2014

Oh such a difficult question! It was interesting read member's comments too, but I have to go with one of my latest, which is nearly always my favourite, until I move on – hence we love this site to help us 'remember' all the books we've loved before!

It is therefore:

Diana Henry's, A Change of Appetite.

Within in a couple of days and a few more dinners, she might be usurped by:

Naomi Duguid, Burma Rivers of Flavour.

jackermn on June 26, 2014

The Complete Cooking for Two Cookbook: 650 Recipes for Everything You'll Ever Want to Make (America's Test Kitchen)

RuthGo on June 26, 2014

I have a number I love but for quick, tasty meals, I always turn to the Monday to Friday Cookbook by Michele Urvater.

robinj on June 26, 2014

I'm very fickle about cookbooks, but if you judge by what I am cooking from this week, it's Mark Bittman's VB6 cookbook, which I just got. If you judge by wear and tear, its the Cooking for Two series by Cook's Illustrated.

overground on June 26, 2014

The Great Meat Cookbook by Bruce Aidells

Imalinata on June 26, 2014

The cookbook my mom created with recipes from family and friends back in 1984.

Queezle_Sister on June 26, 2014

The Savory Way, by Deborah Madison, though I have passion for a very long list of cookbooks!

jenniesb on June 26, 2014

Any of the "Books for Cooks" cookbooks. A wonderfully curated selection of recipes from staff members of the great Books for Cooks store in Notting Hill.

Foodfann on June 26, 2014

I don't have one favorite cookbook, but I use Madhur Jaffrey's World of the East an awful lot and a few of the recipes are in my absolute favorite category. Also, I was a friend of one of her daughters back when I was in college and she was a great cook too!

Emilyscookbooks on June 26, 2014

I have close to 250 cookbooks so I would n e hard pressed to pick one – but today my three favorites are
a) cookshelf thai.
b) Persian cooking for a healthy kitchen
c) the spice cookbook

kimtrev on June 26, 2014

Very hard to choose! One of my favorites, though, is definitely Dede Wilson's Wedding Cake book

boardingace on June 26, 2014

My favorite cookbook of the day (lol) is King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking, because I just had their Currant-Walnut Sourdough Bread and it was amazing!

ellabee on June 26, 2014

The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas; it's the book that I used most starting out cooking (with a Joy of Cooking as backup reference).

Suirauqa on June 26, 2014

The Cook's Companion: The Complete Book of Ingredients and Recipes for the Australian Kitchen by Stephanie Alexander
This is my most used go to book.

lilyrose63 on June 26, 2014

The Heritage of Southern Cooking Camille Glenn

TrishaCP on June 26, 2014

Sunday Suppers at Lucques

stockholm28 on June 26, 2014

Too many to choose from, but I like "Around My French Table" by Dorie Greenspan.

ballen on June 27, 2014

Wolfgang Puck's Live, Love, Eat!

kbennall on June 27, 2014

Oh jeez, that's why I use this site – not to choose! But the one I use the most lately is probably the I Quit Sugar cookbook. Terrible name, great recipes.

infotrop on June 27, 2014

Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home

diannerh49 on June 27, 2014

Cooking with Love by Carla Hall

Mimmi on June 27, 2014

1000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson

CC22003 on June 27, 2014

I have 300+ cookbooks and twice as many food magazines. It would definitely be a problem picking a favourite. For sentimental reasons I would say, The Joy of Cooking, since it was a wedding gift from my brother and the title definitely describes what I feel any time I step into my kitchen to cook or bake something for the people most dear to me.

lpalumbo on June 27, 2014

The New York Times Cookbook

Teemo on June 27, 2014

The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen

AHowarth on June 27, 2014

Pie by Dean Brettschneider

Scema on June 28, 2014

Death by a Chocolate Cakes by Marcel Desaulniers

CarolSprenger on June 28, 2014

Still mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child – love a classic1

Carpecookie on June 28, 2014

Flour by Joanne Chang

jwolfe on June 28, 2014

My favorite cookbook is Rose Levy Beranbaum's "The Cake Bible" – We've used it so much since it was first published that the pages are falling out.

Rinshin on June 28, 2014

A Japanese Cooking Simple Art – this book is classic Japanese cookbook that teaches one how to make Japanese foods. Not contemporary, but great foundation cookbook.

jupflute on June 28, 2014

Supernatural Everyday

pluralcow on June 28, 2014

Plenty

Mariarosa on June 28, 2014

My favorite cookbook is Molly O'Neill's New York Cookbook.

JaneC on June 29, 2014

Any of the Moosewood Collective cookbooks

mrp55 on June 29, 2014

There are so many! But, newest favorite is Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach.

haylie on June 29, 2014

My favourite cookbook is "The Perfect Cookbook" by David Herbert.

JOG on June 30, 2014

My Fav (at the moment) is Richard Till, Leftover Gourmet.

cadfael on June 30, 2014

Favorite Baking:Dahlia Bakery

Favourite Cooking: Complete Canadian Living Cookbook

Favorite Ethnic: Lidia's Italian American Cookbook

Favorite Local: Any of Craig Flinn's (chef owner of Chives Canadian Bistro, voted one of Canada's top 100 restaurant)

vinochic on June 30, 2014

Super Natural Everyday

jlemoine on July 2, 2014

The Whitewater Cooks series by Shelley Adams out of Nelson BC.

lsgourmet on July 3, 2014

As I read the other comments I could have chosen almost any of the cookbooks they suggested, because it depends on what I'm in the mood to cook and when. But thinking about it, the book I find myself picking up when I'm not sure what I want to cook is the old reliable New York Times International Cookbook. It provides a starting point and while I may decide to look into another cookbook for a more authentic recipe, it gets me going in the right direction.

ChessiePique on July 3, 2014

Many of them are my favorite, and it depends on which day you ask me. I'm going to say that overall, Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is the book to take to a desert island.

bohfive on July 3, 2014

My favourite: Eric Gower's Breakaway Cook. Simple steps to amazing output 🙂

Nancith on July 3, 2014

Lots of favorites, but Crescent Dragonwagon's Passionate Vegetarian has great & interesting recipes, plus was a really good book to read.

pokarekare on July 3, 2014

My most-used cookbooks are "The Australian Book of Meat Cookery", "The Harvest Pantry" by Barbara Beckett and "Everyday Cooking for Every Family" from Thermomix

Megoola on July 4, 2014

My favorite cookbook is "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" by Mark Bittman.

readingtragic on July 4, 2014

I think you have to say "What's your favourite right now?" So hard to choose…. I do like Christine Manfield's "Fire", though

Keltonsmom on July 4, 2014

My favorite cookbook is "Trim Healthy Mama". I sure hope you'll index it soon! Thanks for the chance to win.

alicebrody on July 4, 2014

The Splendid Table Lynn Rossetto Kasper, though Marcella Hazan's are equal favorites

krobbins426 on July 5, 2014

I have to choose just one? Gah that is hard. Amanda Hesser's NYT Cookbook is probably my favorite. We've not made a bad recipe from it yet.

kaf30 on July 6, 2014

Australian Women Weekly's One Pot Casseroles and Soups

SoRefined on July 6, 2014

I love Beth Moncel's Budget Bytes cookbook!

finnipus on July 7, 2014

Joy of cooking

Grywhp on July 7, 2014

Around my French Table

meggan on July 7, 2014

Today's favorite – pok pok. Tomorrow – who knows?

LFallon on July 8, 2014

This is the hardest q

LFallon on July 8, 2014

This is the hardest question you have ever asked.I think a favourite is the one most used so mine might just have to be The Silver Palate Cookbook.

amylou61 on July 9, 2014

My favorite cookbook is The Joy of Cooking. I've had it for over 30 years and still use it often.

DulcieD on July 10, 2014

Would have to be Ripe, both red and green

Anrie on July 10, 2014

My favourite is a South African one: Knuppeldik aan Koningskos (it's in Afrikaans). Put together by a police wives' association, it features a whole smorgasbord of regional dishes and family favourites.

maximka25 on July 10, 2014

In Nonna's Kitchen, I love the personal stories behind each recipe

dinnermints on July 10, 2014

This changes all the time, but I've loved everything I've made so far out of Maria Speck's Ancient Grains for Modern Meals.

sarah.draper on July 10, 2014

My favourite is definitely Smitten Kitchen Cookbook… right now at least!

Jerry77360 on July 10, 2014

I have several hundred cookbooks, so my favorite at any given moment is the one in which I found the best recent recipe I have used.

Stephen_Dunn on July 10, 2014

Time and time again, I return to the excellently selected recipes in the range of 'Books for Cooks' series: 'One Year at Books for Cooks No2' is a definite favourite of mine. This compact annual series of books has served me as a way of getting a range of scrumptious recipes from different cooks, They have inspired me and delighted and even dazzled some of my guests! That said, it remains to be seen whether as a newly signed up member of EYB, I change this habit. EYB is such a very seductive recipe tool,it revives forgotten favourites and unravels hidden treasures I hope it won't divorce me completely from my old faithful friends!

rahiscock on July 10, 2014

My favourite cookbook is the one I use most, and that is Veggiestan by Sally Butcher. Have just bought her other cookbooks, so hopefully they are as great!

br22 on July 10, 2014

I love lots of my cookbooks but a recurrent favorite seems to be Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem. Paula Wolfert's The Food of Morocco is a close second…in third place is Andreas Viestad's Where Flavor was Born which is tied with Ana Sortun's Spice.

Ordinaryblogger on July 11, 2014

Today my favorite cooking is Jerusalem.

RickPearson54 on July 11, 2014

Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads

Spambo on July 11, 2014

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

AZArdie on July 11, 2014

Good Eats 1, 2 & 3

earthnfire on July 12, 2014

Too many good books to have just one favorite, but this week, I've been enjoying Alice Waters "The Art of Simple Food".

linded on July 13, 2014

Thrill of the Grill

hihelen_westbrook on July 13, 2014

A Change of Appetite by Diana Henry. I just want to eat everything!

VeryTerriSTL on July 13, 2014

This week it's Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home.

Rosesrpink50 on July 16, 2014

I have to admit it changes, but right now I enjoy Cowgirl Chef and Keepers.

lawnchair7 on July 17, 2014

Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

MadMom on July 17, 2014

My current favorite cookbook is Making Artisan Pasta by Aliza Green.

kitblu on July 17, 2014

I love the Moosewood Cookbook so much that it is falling apart. All my favourite recipes are food splattered.

Zaira on July 17, 2014

Joy of Cooking will always be my first love.

tanvilu on July 17, 2014

the flexitarian table by Peter Berley. The receipes always turn out better than I could have imagined!

Penchantforproduce on July 18, 2014

Favorite cookbook is Heart of the Artichoke by David Tannis – A lifesaver for dinner party planning.

shamby on July 18, 2014

My favorite cookbook is Vegetarian Classics by Jeanne Lemlin. It is always the one I go to when I want something delicious and simple.

Juli on July 18, 2014

At the moment it's Nadia Lim's "Good Food Cook Book" – lots of inspiration for delicious family meals. Thanks Nadia!

m_frawl on July 19, 2014

Ottolenghi – The Cookbook. I return to this book time after time!

nightswimmer on July 19, 2014

I'm a big fan of the Complete Canadian Living Cookbook. The recipes never fail, and they're always delicious.

TheAntiM on July 19, 2014

It's like Sophie's choice, but right here, right now, it's Smoke & Pickles.

JennyR on July 19, 2014

so hard, all my books are beloved but the latest to really take my fancy is Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi

elcc65 on July 19, 2014

My current favorite is The Vegan Slow Cooker by Kathy Hester!

FJT on July 19, 2014

My favourite cookbook (at the moment) is Ottolenghi's 'The Cookbook'

freshtomatoes on July 19, 2014

Dana D –

My current favorite is Curtis Stone "What's for Dinner?"

camtncook on July 19, 2014

The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison

mdmuds on July 19, 2014

My favourite cookbook ? It is like trying to name your favourite child – but I guess it would be "slow food" by Jared Ingersoll

ltsuk on July 19, 2014

Just one? Vegetables Every Day by Jack Bishop.

bellasf on July 19, 2014

Often it's the one I'm curled up reading at that time.

minatomachi on July 19, 2014

My favorite is Vegan by Marie Laforêt.

fraserkr on July 19, 2014

How to Cook Everything The Basics: All You Need to Make Great Food

Maura on July 20, 2014

How can I pick just one? Growing up in Louisiana I would have to pick anything by Paul Prudhomme! But I love learning cultures and their cuisines and having traveled extensively in the Mideast it's got to be Jerusalem!

stemar on July 20, 2014

Balance and Harmony: Asian Food by Neil Perry

KerrynM on July 20, 2014

Stephanie Alexander's The Cook's Companion is my favourite.

carolienbell on July 20, 2014

"Yucatan", a present I gave myself after we came back from Mexico.

aliceinbakingland on July 20, 2014

How to be a domestic goddess by Nigella Lawson

cosgrove on July 20, 2014

Marcella's Classic Italian books I and II, and Claudia Roden's Book of Middle Eastern Food.

redjanet on July 21, 2014

Kitchen by Nigella Lawson

ccav on July 21, 2014

This is so hard. It constantly changes. Right now it's a tie between "Home Made" by Yvette Van Boven and "One Good Dish" by D. Tanis

obbigttam on July 22, 2014

Whilst I love all my books at different times, my favourite has to be my first both for flavours I like and sentimental value. Charmaine Solomon's Complete Asian Cookbook was the first cookbook I learnt from as a child, and spent many years cooking from it and adding notes to the recipes with my mother.

Siegal on July 22, 2014

Aromas of Aleppo

AlexanderF on July 22, 2014

Sauces by James Peterson

Rayud on July 22, 2014

The French Market Cookbook by Clotilde Dusoulier. Most painless way to eat vegetarian.

wester on July 23, 2014

The Flavour Thesaurus. Such a treasure trove of ideas.

MirandaAK on July 23, 2014

Rosie's Bakery: Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book by Judy Rosenberg

meccy29 on July 23, 2014

margaret fulton encyclopedia of food and cookery 1983 – bought it when I left home – still use it today even though my cook book library is over 100 books

Moo on July 23, 2014

River Cottage Veg by Hugh FW

dcockburn on July 23, 2014

My own family cookbook. We printed it ourselves. I use it weekly.

hannicks on July 23, 2014

Ripe Recipes by Angela Redfern

treehuggerz on July 24, 2014

The Joy of Cooking

cgal on July 24, 2014

Locatelli's Made in Sicily, because it is both cookbook and a good read!
Christine Galle

nixon.knight on July 24, 2014

A Cook's Bible – Lesley Christensen-Yule &Hamish McRae. "From the teachers of New Zealand's top chefs – the ultimate guide to cooking at home" … it's my "go to" book.

MargaretM on July 24, 2014

The Moosewood Cookbook. Saved my "bacon" as stepmother to an (almost) vegetarian household of father and 3 boys.

sherryc on July 24, 2014

Revive Cookbook by Jeremy Dixon

artigianbeer on July 24, 2014

My favourite cookbook is Tender (vol.1) of Nigel Slater

stuCooks on July 24, 2014

Taming the Flame, and anything else by Elizabeth Karmel. Elizabeth is is without a doubt Queen of the Q!!

BonnieRed on July 24, 2014

One of my standby cookboos is THE JOY OF COOKING.

hklmnrtz on July 24, 2014

Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone!

JessicaEagle on July 24, 2014

Thanks for this giveaway 🙂
My favorite cookbook lately is Oh She Glows Cookbook.

backwardsbasil on July 24, 2014

My current favorite is Isa Does It by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. Thanks for the giveaway!

ckline on July 24, 2014

A thirty year old copy of the Betty Crocker cookbook that I bought when I first left home. Like me it is tattered, and missing a few pages, but still has plenty of use left.

jennij on July 24, 2014

Hard to pick a favourite…but my most used book is one of my first. The Rebar Cookbook. Used to live in Victoria BC and frequent the restaurant. I'm not a vegetarian but I've made most things in this book! I've even considered buying a second copy because my original is falling apart….

xntrek on July 24, 2014

With a few hundred cookbooks picking a favourite is going to be impossible, but for today, I'm going to choose … The Flavour Thesaurus, which, technically isn't a cookbook, but provides me with constant inspiration when I feel experimental.

fluffysammy on July 25, 2014

At the moment im mad on sweet making and my favourite book is A La Mere de Famille, its a sweet makers dream book and i love it

poppiesandpavlovas on July 25, 2014

My favourite cookbook is River Cottage Every Day – I can always be inspired.

bosbruen on July 25, 2014

Normally my most recent one… Zuni is a classic

FieryItalian on July 25, 2014

Loving annabel langbein's The Free Range Cook at the moment

Wlow on July 25, 2014

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is my very favorite, feels like an old friend.

readingtragic on July 26, 2014

Ottolenghi the Cookbook – the rest of the world agrees with me, too!

Osalmendi on July 26, 2014

From the Wood Fired Oven and Seven Fires are the ones that bring me back to my youth

bhasenstab on July 26, 2014

I'd have to go with River Cottage Everyday, by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. So many delicious things in that book!

margaretahall on July 26, 2014

My favorite cookbook is still Perfect Pasta, by Valentina Harris. It was one of my first two cookbooks, and more dishes from that book made it into my regular cooking rotation than from any other.

DesiKim on July 26, 2014

a Pinch of This, a Handful of That

murdock37 on July 26, 2014

I have so many wonderful cookbooks that I really don't know which to choose so I'm going to go with an old one. The cookbook that I probably have cooked from more than any other (combined with its follow up cookbooks) would have to be the original Moosewood Cookbook along with the international version Sundays at Moosewood. While I am not a vegetarian I found so many amazing recipes in the series that died-in-the-wool carnivores didn't even complain about!

lovelily1001 on July 26, 2014

it's summer– gorgeous fruit! so my current favorite is "ripe" by nigel slater.

Baking_Gal on July 26, 2014

America's Test Kitchen Quick Family Cookbook

ElizabethL on July 27, 2014

Changes a lot but really enjoying Summer on a Plate by Anna Pump

Barb_N on July 27, 2014

Based on the number of recipes I have cooked from it, Diana Henry's Pure Simple Cooking. For bedtime reading, anything Nigel Slater.

myfoodmywayblog on July 28, 2014

Little Paris Kitchen. Great recipes and makes me feel better about my terrible kitchen!

kitchencounterculture on July 28, 2014

The Gaza Kitchen. It's an incredible insight into food as culture, memory, community, and all the ways that history and politics effects these. AND has amazing and very useful recipes.

Anniepalooza on July 28, 2014

My favourite would have to be The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander.

trudys_person on July 30, 2014

The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Berenbaum – at least, this is the one I've made the most recipes from …

sharifah on July 31, 2014

Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course

Gippycath on July 31, 2014

The Cooks Companion by Stephanie Alexander. It's the go to book for recipes and reference. 'Ask Stephanie'

Jstaer on July 31, 2014

Day To Day Cookery….my very first cookbook.

annieski on July 31, 2014

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deb Madison – annieski

Rio on July 31, 2014