 | Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook by Betty Crocker Editors
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.57 Start here, or get your nostalgia fix - cookbook American Moms used in the '50s and '60s.
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 | The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook by Cathy A. Wesler
Buy used from: $1.74 For cooking healthy meals, beautiful book, and everything is delicious.
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 | The Volumetrics Eating Plan: Techniques and Recipes for Feeling Full on Fewer Calories by Barbara J. Rolls Ph.D.
Buy used from: $1.38 Good plan for cutting calories, yet eating well. NOT a fad diet plan! Great carrot soup recipe.
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 | Desperation Dinners by Beverly Mills
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.31 Not haute cuisine, but timesaving good food, and a lifesaver for a sudden step parent.
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 | The Silver Palate Cookbook by Julee Rosso
Buy used from: $0.01 Every recipe in here is excellent, book is inspring. Also see...
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 | The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Julee Rosso
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 for impressive and great eats.
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 | New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants by Molly O'Neill
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.99 When living outside of the US (pre Internet days) this was my one reference. Great diversity of recipes, and fun reading.
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 | The Fannie Farmer Baking Book by Marion Cunningham
Buy used from: $9.95 This would be the one baking book for me. Has everything, all of it works. Marion Cunningham is a superb cook, based in the SF Bay Area, and the book reflects CA cooking: fresh ingredients & diverse.
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 | The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary by Marion Cunningham
Buy new: $21.45 / Used from: $9.26 If Betty Crocker is not your base, Marion Cunningham's book might be. Many formats available.
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 | The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.35 Mollie Katzen is a veg-food god. Recipes are always good, BUT time consuming. Start with this one.
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 | MOLLIE KATZEN'S VEGETABLE HEAVEN: OVER 200 RECIPES FOR UNCOMMON SOUPS, TASTY BITES, SIDE-BY-SIDE DISHES, AND TOO MANY DESSERTS by Mollie Katzen
Buy used from: $2.79 If you like Mollie Katzen, this is a good way to work more veggies in your diet.
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 | Still Life with Menu Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
Buy used from: $1.32 More Katzen, excellent menu suggestions. (I just wish there was a cheaper b/w edition without the art.)
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 | Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.18 To cook veggie food from the Eastern hemisphere. Madhur Jaffrey is brilliant food writer, see her other books too.
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 | Betty Crocker's Indian Home Cooking by Betty Crocker Editors
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $2.12 Excellent intro. to real Indian cooking. By Raghavan Iyer - NOT the imaginary Betty Crocker.
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 | The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.95 An encyclopedia of Mideast cooking.
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 | The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York by Claudia Roden
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $6.55 A good intro to International Jewish/Kosher food. Ashkenazic and Sephardic recipes.
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 | China Moon Cookbook by Barbara Tropp
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01 Chinese-American food, updated. Her chili-orange oil is a staple. Also see...
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 | The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking: Techniques and Recipes by Barbara Tropp
Buy used from: $29.98 General Chinese cooking.
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 | Terrific Pacific Cookbook by Anya von Bremzen
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $0.25 Australian Asian fusion cuisine.
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 | Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook by Anya von Bremzen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.52 Russia is a big place, much more than cooked cabbage and borscht.
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 | Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes by Mary Urrutia Randelman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.23 Authentic Cuban food. Also Mojitos.
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 | The Barbecue! Bible: Over 500 Recipes by Steven Raichlen
Buy used from: $0.73 Beyond steaks: grill veggies, pizza (!), bananas.. also tasty side dishes.
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 | The Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes For Your Stand Mixer by Meredith Deeds
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $11.99 Meringue, pastry, mayonaise, shortbread, pasta - now I can get rid of my *&^! food processor.
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 | Microwave Gourmet by Barbara Kafka
Buy used from: $2.95 More than just popcorn and reheating. Microwaves are excellent for fish and veggies.
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 | Pressure Perfect: Two Hour Taste in Twenty Minutes Using Your Pressure Cooker by Lorna J. Sass
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.50 Lorna Sass deserves a Nobel for her P. cooker books. Painless risotto, cheesecake, stews and curries.
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