 | On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $17.00 Explains the basics of cooking...a must for all cooks
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 | Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques by Jacques Pépin
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $9.95 Teaches you all the basic techniques you need for a life cooking...another must-own before buying any other cookbook
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 | Larousse Gastronomique by Larousse Gastronomique
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $37.95 Every serious cook has a copy
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 | Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $18.29 Ok...so this isn't a time-tested book, but Bourdain does a great job of telling you how to cook and is perhaps the most honest "celebrity chef" out there today.
A great place to jump off for a new chef
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 | The Complete Keller: The French Laundry Cookbook & Bouchon by Thomas Keller
Buy new: $63.00 / Used from: $55.99 Fancy restaurant cookbooks that actually offer good information on how to cook
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 | Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking by Giuliano Bugialli
Buy used from: $3.99 This book is seriously old school...and the best I've found for teaching how to roll out fresh pasta and everything Italian
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 | Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Fortieth - 40th - Anniversary Edition) by Julia Child
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $24.88 Julia Child, for all her homey nature, still offers a great book for the novice chef...kicks the snot out of the "joy of cooking"
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 | The Professional Chef by Culinary Institute of America
Buy used from: $32.00 Don't know about the new edition, but this is a handy (but heavy) book to have around. Kind of has a little of all the above books in one
...But buy the others before picking this up
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 | Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $24.50 The most detailed info I've ever seen on professional pasta making...a must if you want to learn about true Pasta fresca
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 | The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Buy new: $31.50 / Used from: $16.71 The BEST book on making pies, for the professional to the amateur alike
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