The Best Cookbooks Of 2010

There's no shortage of Best Cookbooks of 2010 lists, so rather than pretending any one list has successfully captured every great cookbook of 2010 (they haven't), or asking you to trust just ours, we've pored over the best of the Best Cookbooks of 2010 lists. What follows are the Best Cookbooks of 2010, the HuffPost rendition: every cookbook must have been included in at least two of the following Best Cookbooks of 2010 lists:

• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010
• Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010
• Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010
• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• Publisher's Weekly Best Lifestlye Books of 2010
• Food 52's 2010 Tournament of Cookbooks

With one exception to the rule: four cookbooks chosen by our humble publication's Food page (HuffPost Food Editor's Picks) but overlooked on these other lists were granted inclusion (or is that four exceptions?). It should go without saying that any one of these would make a fine holiday gift for the food lover(s) in your life.

And don't forget to check out the Best Cocktails-and-Spirits Books of 2010.

The 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010, the HuffPost Rendition:

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Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
by René Redzepi

• Spectacle of the Year, Eater Awards
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick
• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010
• #10 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010

The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
by Amanda Hesser

• #2 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick
• Best Historical Cookbook in Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010

One Big Table: 600 recipes from the nation's best home cooks, farmers, fishermen, pit-masters, and chefs
By Molly O'Neill

• Best American Cookbook in Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010
• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• Editors' Pick, Publisher's Weekly Best Lifestly Books of 2010

Harvest to Heat: Cooking with America's Best Chefs, Farmers, and Artisans
By Darryl Estrine, Kelly Kochendorfe

• # 1 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• Best Overall Cookbook in Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010

Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
by Dorie Greenspan

• Best European Cookbook in Epicurious' Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010
• NPR's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• Editors' Pick, Publisher's Weekly Best Lifestly Books of 2010

The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual
by Peter Meehan

• HuffPost Food Pick, #3 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick
• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010
• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• Editors' Pick, Publisher's Weekly Best Lifestly Books of 2010

Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes
by David Lebovitz

• Best Dessert Cookbook in Epicurious' Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010

Meat: A Kitchen Education
By James Peterson

• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick

Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented
by Renato Poliafito

• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• #7 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010

Heart of the Artichoke and Other Kitchen Journeys
by David Tanis

• #8 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks

Avec Eric: A Culinary Journey with Eric Ripert
By Eric Ripert

• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick

In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love
by Melissa Clark

• #9 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• "Best book we'll totally cook from", Publisher's Weekly Senior Editor Lynn Andriani's Best Cookbooks of 2010

Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes
By Harold McGee

• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010

Thai Street Food
by David Thompson

• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010
• #4 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010

The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
by Niki Segnit

• HuffPost Editor's Pick
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010

Primal Cuts: Cooking with America's Best Butchers
By Marissa Guggiana, Alice Wong, Katrina Fried

• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick

Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, With Authentic Recipes and Storie
By Grace Young

• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010

The Food Substitutions Bible: More Than 6,500 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment And Techniques
By David Joachim

• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010

The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook
By Rachel Saunders

• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick

Forgotten Skills of Cooking
By Darina Allen

• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010

Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen
By Amy Pennington

• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• #6 in Amazon's Best Cookbooks of 2010

Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours
By Kim Boyce with Amy Scattergood

• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• HuffPost Food Editor's Pick

Quiches, Kugels, And Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
By Joan Nathan

• NPR's Best Cookbooks Of 2010
• Bon Appetit's Favorite Cookbooks of 2010

Plenty
By Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin

• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010
• The Guardian's 25 Best Cookbooks of 2010

The Perfect Finish
By Bill Yosses and Melissa Clark

• Food 52's Tournament of Cookbooks
• The Washington Post's Top Cookbooks of 2010

Comments

[Mandles99]

02:34 AM on 01/29/2011

Yottom's " Plenty" really is amazing---basic CA cuisine, but still, I love it and Blue Chair, which is a Bay Area native, woot. woot.

[wackette]

08:18 AM on 01/23/2011

Perfect example why we are a country of sick, overweight and hostile people... I can't decide
if the masses are ignorant or lazy.

[Paulina Barrena]

01:48 PM on 12/16/2010

Did I missed it or there isn't a Vegetarian book ?

[wackette]

08:14 AM on 01/23/2011

It's either meat or sugar...

[bikerdude]

08:14 PM on 12/07/2010

I was disappointed to NOT see one of Corrine Trang's books...Her "Noodles Every Day" is a wonderful introduction to fusion noodle recipes...

[kopanko]

09:54 PM on 12/06/2010

None of these would I buy. Thai Street Food looks kind of interesting.

I'd suggest "Vij's at Home", second book by Vancouver restauranteur Vikram Vij. For some reason it's not supposed to be released in the U.S. until next year, but it's been available for several months in Canada (amazon.ca). First book tended toward very rich "restaurant style" cooking--this one however seems great for the home cook, great info, nice content, interesting, warm & personal.

[delta7777]

01:04 PM on 12/06/2010

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The ultimate best "cookbook" is Anne Willan's
"La Varenne Pratique: The Complete Illustrated Cooking Course"--

It is what it says it is: a complete cooking course, rather than just a recipe book.

Despite the French in the title, the book is in English
(Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne is Willan's culinary school in Paris).
This large book is copiously illustrated,
but with functional photos on types of food and how to prepare them,
rather than gourmet showpiece photographs.
It is no longer in print, but used copies can be found
on addall.com and possibly sometimes on ebay..

Anne Willan has several other great cookbooks,
but La Varenne Pratique is unique and outstanding
in that it is truly a full course in cooking;
naturally there are some excellent recipes,
but rather than being unusual or showpiece dishes,
she has very carefully chosen these as basic examples
to illustrate how and why various ingredients are combined in particular ways.
.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:53 PM on 12/06/2010

I use the internet a lot to find recipies but I still love getting cookbooks, I love buyging them and reading on weekends for hours, I get many good ides and make up my own stuff but I follow recipes as well, I just hate it when they have 400 ingredients, sometimes its easier to buy the thing made than cook for a day and hopefully enjoy it

[martigras]

11:03 AM on 12/06/2010

No Barefoot Contessa?

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:54 PM on 12/06/2010

I hear her last one got horrible reviews, so I guess it's not her best of 2010 ( ill prob get it because I like her).. but I do love her show, its one of my favorites, cozy

[totaldisbelief]

10:45 AM on 12/06/2010

do they have one on feedng a family of five on part of an unemployment check ?

[namewithheld]

11:34 AM on 12/06/2010

Check your local library. There are actually a couple of cook books on cooking on a tight budget. One has $5 meals, I think. I'm in the same boat (not actually unemployed, but dirt poor right now). My family has told me to cut down on the beans. Too much farting at work/school.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:55 PM on 12/06/2010

now there's a marked for republicans,.. they should write cookbooks for people who they want to block from unemployemnt since they hate the little guy

[namewithheld]

10:30 AM on 12/06/2010

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey should be in there. Thai Street Food looks great. I'll have to track that one down.

[FlaviaDeLuce]

12:49 PM on 12/06/2010

I want both of those too :)

[namewithheld]

01:02 PM on 12/06/2010

I looked up Thai Street Food on Amazon and there were a couple of reviews that said it had way too many glossy pictures not related to the food, perhaps to justify the high price tag, and that it seemed more like a coffee-table book than a useful kitchen-cookbook. One person recommended the author's other book, Thai Food, instead, which other reviewers and professional reviewers seemed to think is authoritative.

[Decorina]

06:53 PM on 02/02/2011

I'm cooking out of her book right now. It is the BEST Indian cookbook ever - and the recipes are soooo easy and delicious.

[sherri4real]

10:17 AM on 12/06/2010

Great compilation. It seems half of these are on my wish list and a few others I already own. Another good vegetarian book for the post below is Tal Ronen's The Conscious Cook (maybe that was 2009 and I was just slow to buy).

[Altibel]

08:58 AM on 12/06/2010

Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi is vegetarian (and very good!).

[DavidMG]

10:00 PM on 12/05/2010

Didn't see a vegetarian cookbook. If you are in the market for one, take a look at the comments on amazon.com for "American Wholefoods Cuisine. " There is good reason this book has been in print since 1983 and is dubbed "the vegetarian Joy of Cooking."

[Altibel]

08:58 AM on 12/06/2010

Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi is vegetarian (and very good!).

[Quaoar]

09:03 PM on 12/05/2010

Was there a 60th anniversary edition of "To Serve Man"?

[ProfWagstaff]

10:18 AM on 12/06/2010

LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0BSgLKnSk
F&F

[Mary Wagener Bishop]

08:39 PM on 12/05/2010

Don't forget online "cook books". My 16 yr old introduced me to http://foodgawker.com/. Very cool site just doesn't have any coffee table appeal. ;)

[mombabytiger]

09:19 AM on 12/06/2010

I have over 200 cookbooks but I stopped buying them when I realized that you can find almost anything you need online.

[LaurieAnn]

11:12 AM on 12/06/2010

That is a fantastic site.