I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but now and then one must
search for what is new, and what people think.
When I want to find a recipe I sit in front of our 300+ cookbooks , and I
almost always reach for the Rombauers' "Joy of Cooking", 1975 edition,
before anything else. This never ceases to amaze me. It's still the starting
point, 300 cookbooks later.
Following that it's almost always Julia Child;s "The Way to Cook". Next,
depending on what I'm wanting to cook, are any of Marcella Hazan,'s
books["Classic Italian Cooking], any of Michael Field's books["Cooking
School", "Culinary Classics and Improvisations"]. Only after the above, for
almost everything else, do I open any of the remaining 290 books.
What are your favorites? Especially newer favorites published in the last
5-10 years.
Many thanks for any advice,
Kent