 | A Real American Breakfast: The Best Meal of the Day, Any Time of the Day by Cheryl Alters Jamison
Buy used from: $10.98 The best cookbook ever. Everything I've made from this cookbook has been so delicious that I've already made more than 50 of the recipes.
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 | The Soup Bible by Debra Mayhew
Buy used from: $27.13 This cookbook is terrific. The soups are all so easy to make, they require a minimum of ingredients and they are all delicious.
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 | The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $19.95 They aren't kidding. This cookbook is wonderful. The chefs in test kitchen have made 10-200 variations of each recipe and the best recipe they've found is in this cookbook.
This cookbook doesn't have any photos, however, so it's more of a cookbook to reach for when you already know what you want to make.
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 | How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
Buy new: $15.72 / Used from: $11.58 This is a huge and terrific cookbook! Everything I've made from this one has been wonderful. We just made chicken noodle soup with parmesan dumpling thingies- and it was great!!
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 | Williams-Sonoma The Best of the Kitchen Library: Baking by Chuck Williams
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $3.45 I've had wonderful luck with this cookbook. We've used it to make lots of muffins (including some really beautiful lemon muffins), bars, and breads (including a braided cardamom bread) that were fantastic.
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 | The Chocolate and Coffee Bible by Atkinson/Banks/France/McFadden
Buy used from: $2.61 We've made several birthday cakes using this cookbook all with great success. If we could eat whatever we wanted we would be making desserts every night using recipes from this cookbook.
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 | A Good Day for Salad by Jeannette Ferrary
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $0.01 Some salad recipe books bombard you with chicken. I am fine with chicken, but there are so many other things I would rather eat. This cookbook has some wonderful ideas. There are salads in here made with berries and greens, apples and nuts, smoked fish, lamb, cheeses. This is a very nice cookbook.
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 | The Best Soups & Stews (Best Recipe) by Cook's Illustrated Magazine Editors
Buy used from: $84.84 We've had great luck with this one also.
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![Williams-Sonoma Complete Pasta Cookbook [Best of Pasta Collection]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SS3HCE60L._SL75_.jpg) | Williams-Sonoma Complete Pasta Cookbook [Best of Pasta Collection] by Michele Anna Jordan
Buy used from: $2.56 This cookbook really produces wonderful fresh pastas and great pasta sauces for dried pasta from the super-market. The risotto recipes are a little too large in this cookbook, however, so we usually use The Best Recipe for risotto.
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 | The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook by King Arthur Flour
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.00 We use this cookbook a lot. I have never produced a better pie than I have using this cookbook- the tips they give on crust-making are perfect.
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 | The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook by King Arthur Flour
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.99 Great cookie cookbook- there are so many recipes that it's sometimes a little overwhelming to decide on a type of cookie to make.
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 | Breakfast in Bed, 90 Recipes for Creative Indulgences by Jesse Ziff Cool
Buy used from: $25.00 This Cookbook has wonderful and very original ideas for breakfast. You can prepare most of them to some extent the night before.
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 | Endangered Recipes: Too Good to Be Forgotten by Lari Robling
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $10.10 Very Nice cookbook. It's a short one, but it has some really nice recipes, and the photos and theme of the book are lovely. We've used this one to make Welsh Rarebit, Tomato soup, Borscht. The recipes are simple and delicious!
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 | The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $6.99 We love colonial Williamsburg, and the taverns there are wonderful. We bought this gem of a cookbook so we could make pickled watermelon rind one day, and although we haven't tried that recipe yet, we've used this cookbook quite a lot to make dinners and some breakfasts- it's been wonderful, most of the recipes are suitable for entertaining and none are very difficult.
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 | Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accompaniments by David Lebovitz
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $15.97 Out-of-this-world ice cream!! I didn't realize ice cream would taste sooo much better homemade- but man, does it ever. My favorites were mint ice cream (we used mint that we had grown ourselves) and Chocolate ice cream (I usually don't even like chocolate ice cream- We used Penzey's chocolate- awesome!!!)
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 | Chocolate Obsession: Confections and Treats to Create and Savor by Michael Recchiuti
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $13.83 Before I tried, I was frightened of the potential mess and the difficulty of the endeavor, but I did really want to try to make my own chocolates- and I did it!! The chocolates were the best I'd ever had- they did cost quite a bit to make, and we did fine with keeping the mess under control- until the last 30 minutes when our kitchen exploded in a chocolate mess.
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 | 500 Cupcakes: The Only Cupcake Compendium You'll Ever Need by Fergal Connolly
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.96 We've had great success with this cookbook. We use a kitchen scale to make sure we don't add to much flour and all of our cupcakes have turned out delicious.
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