About General Cookbooks
(You should already have read the general notes on our selection of cookbooks and on interpreting our book listings, as found on our Good Cookbooks main cookbooks page.)
These are cookbooks that do not have a special focus (though some may lean toward French cookery). They are, in the main, for cooks with at least some mastery of basic cookery techniques, though some (also included on our Basic Cookbooks page) may contain some instructional material as well. They are what one generically means by "a cookbook", with--typically--a broad assortment of recipes. Cookbooks with various specialty focuses--whether on technique, particular food, nation or region, and more, are in the various lists on the other cookbook-list pages of this site.
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How to Cook Without a Book:
Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart Pam AndersonUS $17.16 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The title expresses the idea: don't learn recipes, learn cooking. Anderson sets out to give the reader a sound grasp, to be well and truly memorized, of how to cook, technique by technique (even to little mnemonic rhymes). And, to read the reviews, she succeeds admirably. |
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The James Beard Cookbook (3rd Edition)
James BeardUS $10.85 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Cooking by Hand
Paul BertolliUS $26.40 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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How To Cook Everything:
Simple Recipes for Great Food Mark BittmanUS $14.93 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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How To Cook Everything:
Simple Recipes for Great Food Mark BittmanUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Les Halles Cookbook:
Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking Anthony Bourdain with José de Meireilles and Phillipe LaJauneUS $24.75 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom:
Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking Julia ChildUS $14.28 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Julia's Kitchen Wisdom:
Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking Julia ChildUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home
Julia Child and Jacques PépinUS $31.35 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Way to Cook
Julia ChildUS $26.37 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Way to Cook
Julia ChildUS $40.95 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The New York Times Cookbook
Craig ClaiborneUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Chef, Interrupted:
Delicious Chefs' Recipes That You Can Actually Make at Home Melissa ClarkUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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Home Cooking:
A Writer in the Kitchen Laurie ColwinUS $12.00 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Elizabeth David Classics:
Mediterranean Food -- French Country Cooking -- Summer Cooking Elizabeth DavidUS $33.76 Usually ships in 4 to 7 weeks |
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Firehouse Food:
Cooking With San Francisco's Firefighters George Dolese and Stephen SiegelmanUS $16.47 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The River Cottage Cookbook
Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallUS $30.36 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Anatomy of a Dish
Diane Forley with Catherine YoungUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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Good Things
Jane Grigson(no longer available new--see below) |
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Sunday Suppers at Lucques:
Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table Suzanne Goin with Teri GelberUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Modern Classics, Book 1
Donna HayUS $16.47 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Cook and the Gardener:
A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside Amanda HesserUS $23.73 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Beat That!
Ann HodgmanUS $15.00 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Beat This!
Ann HodgmanUS $16.00 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Roast Chicken and Other Stories
Simon Hopkinson and Lindsay Bareham(no longer available new--see below) |
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How to Eat:
The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food Nigella LawsonUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Larousse Gastronomique:
The World's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia Prosper Montagne, EditorUS $53.55 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Taste Pure and Simple:
Irresistible Recipes for Good Food and Good Health Michel Nischan with Mary GoodbodyUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Jamie's Dinners:
The Essential Family Cookbook Jamie OliverUS $23.07 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Fast Food My Way
Jacques PépinUS $19.80 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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A Chef for All Seasons
Gordon Ramsay with Roz DennyUS $18.45 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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A Chef for All Seasons
Gordon Ramsay with Roz DennyUS $29.79 Usually ships in 4 to 7 weeks |
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The Gourmet Cookbook:
More Than 1000 Recipes Ruth Reichl, EditorUS $26.40 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Joy of Cooking
Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer BeckerUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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A New Way to Cook
Sally SchneiderUS $16.47 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Essentials of Home Cooking
Bonnie Stern(no longer available new--see below) |
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Inspired by Ingredients:
Market Menus and Family Favorites from a Three-Star Chef Bill Telepan and Andrew FriedmanUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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Cooked to Perfection:
An Illustrated Guide to Achieving Success with Every Dish Anne Willan(no longer available new--see below) |
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Best of the Best:
The Best Recipes From the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year (6th Edition, 2003) Food & Wine MagazineUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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Best of the Best:
The Best Recipes From the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year (8th Edition) Food & Wine MagazineUS $ This item is currently not available. |
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The New Best Recipe:
All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes Cook's Illustrated MagazineUS $23.10 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Professional Chef:
Study Guide The Culinary Institute of AmericaUS $30.40 Usually ships in 24 hours |
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