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Do you ever buy cooking books for recipes?

>> No.14044966

Yeah but most cookbooks are trash, like “1000 easy pasta recipes”. There are top tier cookbooks out there that will change your cooking life, you just have to research them

>> No.14044980

>>14044956
i'd never pay for anything that i'm not forced to pay and even then i'll try to dodge that bullet.

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>>14044956
I've gotten a few over the years, some of them are pretty good. A few of the best are from old folk stores and a one like this is pretty awesome.

>> No.14045016

>>14044956
Estate sales is another place to look.

>> No.14045021

>>14044956
I love the Flavor Bible

>> No.14045028

>>14045021
Interesting I never heard of that one before, but now I have so will look it up. Thanks.

>> No.14045068

i fucking loves cookbooks and basically always ask for them when someone asks what i want for birthday/christmas/whatever. some of the below are almost more like food novels, but a few favorites:

>the food lab
>meathead: the science of great grilling and barbecue
>lucky peach's 101 easy asian recipes
>luck peach's power vegetables
>churrasco: grilling the brazilian way
>seven fires
>living and eating
>fit men cook
>mediterranean instant pot
>chef paul prudhomme's louisiana kitchen
>more fast food my way by jacques pepin
>frankie's spuntino cooking manual

literally an entire universe of cookbooks out there, and as other mentioned they can be had cheaply at used book stores/estate sales/online. flipping through a cookbook until you see something that makes you salivate, going out to get all the ingredients and spending an afternoon cooking it is one of the best to spend a weekend (or quarantine) day.

>> No.14045073

i've got a few i really like.

Flavor Bible and Escoffier are pretty essential in any serious chefs library.

other than that i've been enjoying learning fermentation through the NOMA Guide, and learning middle eastern preservation in Bestia, and then Franklin's BBQ cookbook is based as fuck if you're into BBQing and grilling.

>> No.14045613

>>14044956
I collect Sunset cookbooks and I have picked up several culinary textbooks from thrift stores.

>> No.14047244

>>14045073
larper

>> No.14047287

>>14045073
Flavor bible is pretty sick until you cook a shitload and the recs become somewhat common sense. Id say it does the job, esp if youre new to cooking.

>> No.14047330

>>14044956
I have a few, I'm a shit cook so they're mostly pretty basic. The book for pros is probably Hering's Dictionary.

>> No.14047338

For me? It's the Kino Lasagna (TM)

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>>14044956
1000 pages of goodness.

>> No.14048783

>>14045068
meathead is a good fuckin book, I was a real pleb with grilling before reading it, I didn't know shit about stuff like indirect heat.

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Japanese Soul Cooking is a good cookbook for a Japanese food. Easy recipes and super delicious.

Also The Joy of Cooking is a cookbook I always use, it has everything in it. It’s ugly with no pictures but whatever, it’s better than a recipe I can google and it barely any fluff. The older ones show you how to break down a squirrel

>> No.14048873

>Kino cookbook
>kino