 | The Bear and Fish Family Cookbook by Yabin Yu
Buy new: $30.55 / Used from: $50.93 My masterpiece!
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 | Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home by Julia Child
Buy used from: $33.98 This program taught me how to cook when I was a college student. I didn't have money to pay for the cable, and the only channel had good TV reception with antenna was PBS.
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 | Jacques Pépin's Complete Techniques by Jacques Pépin
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.24 I learned the classic cooking techniques from this book.
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 | The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition by America's Test Kitchen
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $19.95 One of my favorite cooking shows on PBS and the recipes work too.
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 | Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $8.07 Another excellent program/book on Italian cooking.
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 | Dessert Circus: Extraordinary Desserts You Can Make At Home (Pbs Series) by Jacques Torres
Buy new: $22.40 / Used from: $0.50 My favorite show on dessert and pastry.
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 | BBQ USA: 425 Fiery Recipes from All Across America by Steven Raichlen
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $6.83 Marinated meat cooked on the grill always taste great.
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 | Paris Boulangerie-Patisserie: Recipes from Thirteen Outstanding French Bakeries by Linda Dannenberg
Buy used from: $36.66 Nobody can resist the temptation of French pastries ... certainly not me.
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 | Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.45 When I was writing my thesis in graduate school, I started to make bread. Bread baking helped me to clear my mind and organize my thoughts. This is one of my favorite bread books, I have tried at least 30-40 recipes from this book, and they all worked fine.
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 | Desserts by Pierre Herme by Pierre Herme
Buy used from: $18.96 A great book on desserts.
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 | The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes by Dale DeGroff
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $15.99 The era of cocktails has began.
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 | The Ultimate A-to-Z Bar Guide by Sharon Tyler Herbst
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.02 More cocktail recipes.
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 | The Professional Chef by Culinary Institute of America
Buy used from: $24.99 My first book on professional cooking.
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 | The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
Buy new: $30.00 / Used from: $23.93 My first book on restaurant cooking.
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 | Sous Vide Cuisine by Joan Roca
Buy used from: $229.95 I learned the technique of "sous vide" from this book.
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 | Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide by Thomas Keller
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $38.25 Another sous vide book.
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 | El Bulli 2003-2004 by Ferran Adria
Buy new: $236.25 / Used from: $293.34 Modern Catalan cuisine and molecular gastronomy at its best.
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 | Alinea by Grant Achatz
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $29.49 Beautifully photographed ... another example of molecular gastronomy.
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 | The Big Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal
Buy new: $157.50 / Used from: $214.89 More molecular gastronomy.
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 | The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, 4th Edition by Bo Friberg
Buy new: $44.10 / Used from: $37.99 This book has everything you want to known about baking and pastry art. It is my favorite book on baking and pastry.
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 | Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Technique for the Artisan Confectioner by Peter P. Greweling
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $38.63 Learn how to make chocolates and confections from the professional.
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 | Grand Livre de Cuisine: Desserts: Alain Ducasse's Desserts and Pastries by Alain Ducasse
Buy used from: $999.99 French pastry book.
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 | Paco Torreblanca by Paco Torreblanca
Spanish pastry book.
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 | Paco Torreblanca Colección Volume Three Sugarworks and Technique & Recipes by Paco Torreblanca
Spanish-style sugar sculpture/showpiece. My favorite book on sugarpiece is "Sucre d'art, l'envers du décor" by Stephane Glacier, it is currently not available on amazon.
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 | Stephane Leroux Matiere Chocolat
Best book on chocolate sculpture/showpiece.
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 | Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and More by Dianne Jacob
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $7.55 Now you have mastered the art of cooking and have developed a collection of your own recipes. It is time to realize your ideas and thoughts on paper.
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 | Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting by Fil Hunter
Buy new: $30.91 / Used from: $27.77 Now you have a draft version of your recipes ready and tested. It is time to photograph the finished dishes. This book will teach you the art and science of photography and lighting.
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 | Digital Food Photography by Lou Manna
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $22.52 Learn how to photography food.
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 | The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $20.89 Learn to edit your photos.
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 | Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual by Timothy Samara
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $13.49 Learn the basics of graphic design for your book.
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 | Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eisemann
Buy new: $27.04 / Used from: $8.49 Choose the right color for the right design.
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 | Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One by Deke McClelland
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $37.47 Put everything in place with my favorite layout software Adobe InDesign.
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 | Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Kvern
Buy new: $34.64 / Used from: $31.99 Another great book on InDesign.
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 | HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition by Elizabeth Castro
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $15.75 Create a website for your new book.
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 | Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns by Michael Bowers
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $10.04 Use CSS to format the style of visual elements on your website.
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 | Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Flash CS3 Professional in 24 Hours by Phillip Kerman
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $15.05 Learn to create a flash animation for your website
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 | Michael Jackson's Complete Guide To Single Malt Scotch by Michael Jackson
Buy used from: $65.10 Overloaded with all the programming for the book website? The era of Scotch has began.
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 | Dan Poynter's Self-Publishing Manual, 16th Edition: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Self Publishing Manual) by Dan Poynter
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.98 Now you have done all the work for your own cookbook, why not publish it yourself?
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 | Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Your Books with Print on Demand and Online Book Marketing on Amazon.com by Aaron Shepard
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $11.97 More on self publishing.
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