I love to learn new recipes and techniques in cookbooks. These are my all time favorite cookbooks that I go back to time and time again.
Perfect for everyday recipes as well as techniques that can be used on repeat.
Cook This Book: Techniques and Recipes
Great easy and delicious everyday recipes. Dining in is more than just a long list of super interesting recipes — it's a book that will probably fundamentally change the way I cook. Recipes with unfussy new techniques like her Anchovy-Butter Chicken ...
Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes: A Cookbook
Athena has the Midas touch: Give her simple ingredients and she will create elegant, memorable meals that are familiar but flawless. She understands the art of cooking beautifully, and the food in her mouthwatering manifesto is truly gold
Cook Beautiful
Plenty More is even better than the original, fresh with the flavors and ingredients of Ottolenghi's most recent travels and readings. There are still many traces of his Middle Eastern influence, but now he's incorporated touches of Southeast Asia, I...
Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking
An amazing resource for all things with yeast. The Bread Bible gives bread bakers 150 of the meticulous, foolproof recipes that are Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark. Her knowledge of the chemistry of baking, the accessibility of her recipes, and the i...
The Bread Bible
The best book for gluten free recipes that can also be adapted into using gluten. Cannelle et Vanille's Aran Goyoaga shares 100 recipes that showcase how uncomplicated and delicious gluten-free baking can be. Her previous cookbook was a Most-Anticipa...
Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple: Gluten-Free
The absolute bible on balancing flavors. "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is a refreshing break from [the] contemporary formula. Instantly recognizable as a reference book, Samin Nosrat's definitive technique-driven tome defies convention. This is partly becau...Saveur.com
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering Good Cooking
This book is perfect for a couple. More often than not when I am cooking for 2 people there are wayyyy too many leftovers. This is a great way to reduce the amount of food you waste and make meals for the one you love.
Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love
I always loved walking by the William Sonoma in the mall and smelling the freshly made samples they had that day. This cookbook has something for every course and occasion. There are even cocktail recipes! Contains 137 home recipes, including family ...
Williams Sonoma At Home Favorites: 110+ Recipes
One of my favorite recipe books for dinner parties. Includes a wide variety of recipes and drinks to create.
Last Minute Dinner Party: 120 Inspiring Dishes
I love that there are so many basic, staple recipes in this book. It has recipes for different sauces and jam and bread.
Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook
For the cooks that was to try something a little bit fancier.
The French Laundry Cookbook
This book delivers. It is structured sensibly, with categories for Snacks, Salad, Carbs, Surf & Turf, Chicken, Veg, Sandos (sandwiches), Breakfast, and Sweets. The ingredient lists are broken down by category, making it easy to identify the produ...
More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen: A Cookbook
I am IN LOVE with this cookbook! Since I got it, I've tried multiple recipes, and my favorites include the Flourless Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies (vegan & gluten-free!), the Potato, Leek & Artichoke Chowder, and the Kale & Sweet Potato L...
Love and Lemons Every Day: 100 Plant-Forward Recipes