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NFT: Best Cook Books

Grey Pilgrim : 1/14/2022 7:12 am
1. The Joy of Cooking

2. The Gourmet Cookbook Part 1 and 2

3. ???

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Youtube  
Producer : 1/14/2022 7:15 am : link
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The food lab  
Giantophile : 1/14/2022 7:21 am : link
J Kenji Lopez Alt.

More than a cookbook, a way to think about cooking that will color the way you approach food in a new way.
RE: Youtube  
Mark from Jersey : 1/14/2022 7:24 am : link
In comment 15552428 Producer said:
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Seriously some pretty good stuff on YouTube. I like Sam the Cooking Guy, Cooking Con Claudia, and Malcom Reed (HowtoBBQRight) the most.
RE: The food lab  
Chris in Philly : 1/14/2022 8:02 am : link
In comment 15552432 Giantophile said:
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J Kenji Lopez Alt.

More than a cookbook, a way to think about cooking that will color the way you approach food in a new way.


This is a wonderful book, and he has a great series of YT videos as well.

We have a ton of cookbooks, but the ones I go back to over and over are Food Lab, the ATK cookbook, and several by Jacques Pepin.
My go tos  
DonQuixote : 1/14/2022 8:02 am : link
Mark Bittman, How to Cook Everything

Jacques Pepin, Essential Pepin

Marcella Hazan, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

YouTube for inspiration, methods and Japanese cooking.
Almost forgot....  
Grey Pilgrim : 1/14/2022 8:09 am : link
Luchow's cookbook

Awesome German Cookbook!
luchow's cookbook - ( New Window )
My favorite  
11 to 89 : 1/14/2022 8:45 am : link
Always been happy with the results I get from this book.
The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook, 2001-2022 - ( New Window )
I've got Pepin, and Hazan and  
Bill in UT : 1/14/2022 9:17 am : link
Prudhomme and 2 Childs' books, but I hardly ever use them. I keep all my recipes on a tablet, so they're pretty much all stuff I can download from the net. And I get most of them from TV- Food Network, Cooking Channel, the PBS shows- ATK, Cook's Country, Lidia Bastianich, Pepin, Patti Jinich. If I find out about a great chef not on TV, I can usually get recipes off the net, also, like Rick Bayless
Julia Child  
TXRabbit : 1/14/2022 9:22 am : link
Mastering the Art of French Cooking

(great info on basic techniques)
RE: The food lab  
Bill in UT : 1/14/2022 9:22 am : link
In comment 15552432 Giantophile said:
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J Kenji Lopez Alt.

More than a cookbook, a way to think about cooking that will color the way you approach food in a new way.


Kenji for me is like Alton Brown- they're geniuses about cooking but I don't love their food. Great guys to learn from though. I picked up using baking powder to sous vide shrimp or to help meats brown when sauteing. I always go to The Food Lab for sous vide times and temps.
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Bill in UT : 1/14/2022 9:27 am : link
HeyGrillHey for grilling and Pasquale Sciarappa (who I got from Drew) for Italian
I forgot  
Bill in UT : 1/14/2022 9:29 am : link
Milk Street on PBS, my new favorite for International dishes
RE: I forgot  
Grey Pilgrim : 1/14/2022 9:33 am : link
In comment 15552563 Bill in UT said:
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Milk Street on PBS, my new favorite for International dishes


I'm a fan.

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Second  
Daniel in MI : 1/14/2022 9:39 am : link
How to Cook Everything

For baking “William Sonoma Essentials of Baking” has been very good.
Get WSEOB here for $7 - ( New Window )
A website I've come to trust  
TXRabbit : 1/14/2022 9:43 am : link
for recipes, info and techniques is Serious Eats


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My go to for healthy eating  
PhilSimms15 : 1/14/2022 9:51 am : link
The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen
Link - ( New Window )
If I want thousands and thousands of recipes and videos I turn to  
PhilSimms15 : 1/14/2022 9:55 am : link
Americastestkitchen.com

It’s about $50 a year but there are thousands of recipes, product reviews, videos, and all 22 years of their television shows.
Link - ( New Window )
RE: Almost forgot....  
Grey Pilgrim : 1/14/2022 10:00 am : link
In comment 15552463 Grey Pilgrim said:
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Luchow's cookbook

Awesome German Cookbook! luchow's cookbook - ( New Window )

If I could go back in time this is one restaurant I'd like to go to.
Jennifer Segal books are great  
jamalduff123 : 1/14/2022 11:43 am : link
My wife and I have loved her recipes, really tasty and not too fussy

It's also hard to go wrong with Ina Garten
once upon a chef - ( New Window )
RE: The food lab  
montanagiant : 1/14/2022 11:50 am : link
In comment 15552432 Giantophile said:
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J Kenji Lopez Alt.

More than a cookbook, a way to think about cooking that will color the way you approach food in a new way.

I second Kenji he looks at cooking from multiple angles and I have yet to have a bad meal using his techniques
RE: Jennifer Segal books are great  
Grey Pilgrim : 1/14/2022 11:51 am : link
In comment 15552836 jamalduff123 said:
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My wife and I have loved her recipes, really tasty and not too fussy

It's also hard to go wrong with Ina Garten once upon a chef - ( New Window )


What I love about Ina is that she doesn't make her recipes unnecessarily complicated.
Lidia Bastianich  
ATL_Giants : 1/14/2022 1:42 pm : link
Her cooking is the most like where my family is from in Italy.

Amazon Lonk to her book
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