Classic Cookbooks That The Food Industry Loves

Whether for the holidays or to buy for yourself, these are the cookbooks the pros - chefs, bakers, butchers, cheesemongers - have found inspiring and useful in their careers.

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PORK AND SONS
by Stephane Reynaud

What: From head to hoof, French chef Stephane Reynaud celebrates the swine in all its forms, from slaughter to supper.
Recommended by: Butcher Jake Dickson (Dickson's Farmstand Meats in New York).
Available on Amazon.com

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PORK AND SONS
by Stephane Reynaud



What: From head to hoof, French chef Stephane Reynaud celebrates the swine in all its forms, from slaughter to supper.

Recommended by: Butcher Jake Dickson (Dickson's Farmstand Meats in New York).

Available on Amazon.com

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[halfpricefaustian]

04:25 PM on 12/20/2010

I have to add "Washoku" by Elizabeth Andoh and "Into the Vietnamese Kitchen" by Andrea Nguyen.
I totally agree with "The Joy of Cooking" and "Larousse Gastonomique", as well as "The Art of French Cooking" as well.

[elmo lee]

02:13 PM on 12/14/2010

Mind if I add... Herings Dictionary of Classical and Modern Cooking.... the Escoffier Cookbook... Mastering the Art of French Cooking... The Saucier's Apprentice... Moosewood Cookbook... The French Laundry Cookbook?

[thesidetrek]

04:05 PM on 12/12/2010

Pierre Franey's '60 Minute Gourmet', anything by Jacques Pepin, Marcella Hazan, Lidia Bastianich, Alfred Portale. What is your favorite cookbook, sidetrekkers?

[thesidetrek]

04:00 PM on 12/12/2010

Pierre Franey's 60 Minute Gourmet

[antaeus]

01:40 AM on 12/15/2010

As well as MORE 60 MINUTE GOURMET, which includes desserts. Aren't those great?!

[Cookie100]

08:46 AM on 12/12/2010

For savory, Thomas Keller's French Laundry. For sweet 'Julia" or basic recipes Dorie Greenspans, From My home To Yours'. Also Paris Sweets has cute little recipes too. Small batches of cookies from Pierre Herme (but not french macarons), for that you need Laduree, the original.
The Cake Bible like the Pie Bible is not my favorite at all. I have it, bake everyday and find the recipes very intricate for no real reason. Her chocolate cake recipes come out no better than Hershey's Heavenly Chocolate cake, made with something other than Hershey's.
For a really great almond cake, try Amanda Hesser's, it's her mom-in-laws recipe, it's fav with anyone who like almonds
That's my 2 cents

[MsNancyMitford]

02:48 PM on 12/10/2010

Amazing, an article actually almost ABOUT Food, in the Food section?

Well, almost, this should be in that BOOKS section.

Four articles on fast food, 2 regarding assault, and one on racism. Minus the reality TV, WHERE is the FOOD?

This is more a National Enquirer with incidents near food.

[Cookie100]

08:52 AM on 12/12/2010

I LOVE NANCY MITFORD, THE AUTHOR! No one knows who she is, Casting Off, and the entire Cazalet family! Are you aware of her writing?

[MsNancyMitford]

11:17 AM on 12/12/2010

I do too!

Intimately and quite, although, distantly related.

They call me"Jr.".

[GomboMan]

11:16 AM on 12/09/2010

My two top cook books are Escoffier and The Hows and Whys of French Cooking by Alma Lach. Both are fantastic books.

[kevinbr38]

04:42 AM on 12/09/2010

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth by Andries De Groot, is not only full of wonderful recipes, it's also agreat read. A must have!

[sculptor]

12:56 AM on 12/09/2010

Chinese Food by Kenneth Lo. This tiny book has more character that all the other cooking and food books that I've ever read put together.

[cookerman45]

12:23 AM on 12/10/2010

you need ta read more.........

[sculptor]

07:18 PM on 12/12/2010

Hey, I've gots dozens of cook books, including such bibles as the Larousse Gastronomique and the CIA's New Profession Chef but Lo's slim Penguin paperback has got character. He goes to the heart of Chinese cooking and his recipes are illustrative rather than definitive. It's more about food and it's relationship to the Chinese people than cooking itself and you'll learn things that you'll never see in other books.

[hirut]

12:10 AM on 12/09/2010

All of the cookbooks offered by food and wine magazine are great! I have a whole collection of them.

[liberalbug]

10:45 PM on 12/08/2010

River Cottage Meat Book, English version, is just a great read. All about animal husbandry and the good eating of great meat. I just love the book.

[NourishingCook]

09:56 PM on 12/08/2010

My favorite is Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig. I love this cookbook so much that I based my blog (The Nourishing Cook) on this cookbook. It's a traditional nutrition primer as well as a cookbook that has almost 800 recipes. Think how your grandmother or great grandmother used to eat, this is the modern version of that style of cooking. Healthy, simple, but definitely for home cooks not 'chefs'... but most of us are home cooks, are we not?

[poomplet]

03:31 PM on 12/08/2010

I freely & proudly admit swiping my favorite cookbook, Vincent & Mary Price's "A Treasury of Great Recipes", from my mom several years ago (OK, she said it was fine). http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Great-Recipes-Vincent-Price/dp/1568495404

There are a few recipes from Vinny himself, but mostly it's a collection of his favorite dishes from many of the most famous restaurants in the world, circa 1959-1963 including Lüchow's, Trader Vic's, Forum of the Twelve Caesars, Dorado Beach Hotel, Puerto Rico, Jockey in Madrid, Hole In The Wall in Bath, Ernie's in San Francisco, The Racket Club in Palm Springs, The Wayside Inn, The Pump Room in Chicago.

There's great, urbane storytelling in the intros to each section/restaurant...it's a perfect little "culinary time capsule" for early PanAm jet-set era (for the full effect, throw on a mock turtleneck & crank some Jobim/Getz while you're cooking).

OH...the recipes are great, relevant, approachable & delicious, too! There's a classic blender Hollandaise that might be the first time most Americans ever made/tasted it, a great champagne chicken, Luchow's potato pancakes.

It's 'Mad Men' for yer' belly!

It was my dad's favorite, too, so I have some of his own best recipes (steak diane!!) hand written in the blank pages at the rear that were so thoughtfully provided for that purpose

Great memories, great food, great reading...GET IT!!! They're all over ebay/amazon ..maybe someone's scanned it into a PDF or something, too.

[kevinbr38]

11:45 AM on 12/08/2010

As our beloved Julia would bleat..."Quelle scandale" that "Mastering'is not included. One of my favorites James Haller. My favorite passage, from his great recipe for stuffed turkey", when discussing actually stuffing the bird...."You can tie the openings (of the cavities) shut, oor fasten them shut. It's very quick to take a needle and thread and sew it closed-doesn't have to be a lovely stitch, you're going to eat it, not wear it".
The original River Cafe Cookbook should be included as well.

[cookerman45]

10:31 AM on 12/08/2010

anything by Chef Louis Szathmary, The Bakery, Chicago ill.

Miss his cooking!