 | Weber's Art of the Grill: Recipes for Outdoor Living by Jamie Purviance
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $2.59 A gorgeous coffee-table book on outdoor grilling that you will USE. Try the Tandoori Chicken.
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 | Grill Power: Everything you need to know to make delicious, healthy meals on your Indoor Electric Grill by Holly Rudin-Braschi
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.48 A must for indoor grilling, this menu cookbook is full of reduced-sodium and low-fat recipes with lots of flavor. Try the Lemon Caper Chicken Piccata and the Nordic Salmon. Make the whole menu!
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 | DK Living: Yan-Kit's Classic Chinese Cookbook by Yan-kit So
Buy used from: $0.23 Dependable Chinese cookbook with loads of photos. Great for beginners. Try the Fried Rice.
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 | China Express by Nina Simonds
Buy used from: $0.41 Wonderful Chinese cookbook with recipes that aren't too hard. Try the Four-Spice Chicken Drumsticks (great party dish).
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 | The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook by Beth Hensperger
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $12.34 The best bread machine cookbook of all. Try the Dakota Bread, any of the semolina breads, the Sandwich Rolls, the Pizza Dough (and the easy pizza sauce)--hey, try them all!
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 | Rosie's Bakery All-Butter, Fresh Cream, Sugar-Packed, No-Holds-Barred Baking Book by Judy Rosenberg
Buy used from: $6.98 Excellent baking book. Try the Chocolate Sour Cream Cake Layers with the frosting made in a blender.
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 | Betty Crocker's Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, Ninth Edition by Betty Crocker Editors
Buy used from: $0.78 My copy of this is from the 70s, but I'm sure the newer version is still terrific. Dependable for home cooking. Try the Old Fashioned Beef Stew.
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 | Cooking from Quilt Country : Hearty Recipes from Amish and Mennonite Kitchens by Marcia Adams
Buy used from: $4.69 A collection of recipes, stories, and photos from Amish communities. Boy, can they cook! Try the Oven-Fried Chicken and the Brown Sugar Pie.
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 | The Cook's Bible: The Best of American Home Cooking by Christopher Kimball
Buy new: $30.60 / Used from: $3.91 Lots of info on cookware, techniques, and so on. Great instructions on cooking a turkey, and try the Rosemary Roasted Potatoes.
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 | Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $3.75 Dependable kitchen resource. Try the Velvet Spice Cake and most anything else.
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| Impromptu Cooking by Glenn Andrews
Buy used from: $0.01 Out of print, but worth tracking down. This is a great read from start to finish, and it's what *really* got me pumped about cooking!
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| Pasta Cookery Revised by Sophie K. Petros
Buy used from: $2.16 Also out of print, but the Meat Sauce Lasagne recipe is second to none. I add a chopped fresh tomato and a Tblsp. or so of chopped sun-dried tomatoes to "kick it up a notch."
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 | Cooking Light Five Star Recipes: The Best of 10 Years by Leisure Arts
Buy used from: $0.21 Terrific cookbook. Try the Chicken Parmesan; better than most restaurant versions, and even more delicious the next day. Use fresh herbs instead of dried (double the amounts). Doesn't taste "light"!
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 | Brother Juniper's Bread Book: Slow-rise As Method And Metaphor by Brother Peter Reinhart
Buy used from: $2.98 Charming book that makes for great reading. If you've got the time, try the Struan bread. It is awesome.
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 | Auberge Of The Flowering Hearth by Roy Andries De Groot
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $9.98 Another great read for foodies. Even if you don't attempt the more labor-intensive recipes, you'll enjoy wandering the French countryside with De Groot.
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 | Cooking With Claudine (Jacques Pepin's Kitchen) by Jacques Pepin
Buy used from: $0.01 Delicious, healthy, easy recipes from a master. Try anything. I made the Brown Rice with Broccoli without the broccoli (my husband hates it), and the rice was still great.
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 | The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $7.43 Wonderful Italian cookbook. Try the Balsamic Roast Chicken (I make twice as much garlic paste and rub in under the skin; this is good even without the balsamic vinegar) and the Green Beans Bolognese.
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