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[coraa]

What's your favorite cookbook that's not a general reference? (IE, I am appreciative of the general usefulness of things like The Joy of Cooking or the Betty Crocker Cookbook when you're going 'argh, I have no idea how long to cook a roast beef' or 'I need a pineapple upside-down cake recipe, stat!,' but that's not quite what I'm looking for.) It could be a cuisine cookbook (mediterranean, Japanese, etc), a single-ingredient cookbook (everything to do with cheese!), a single-method cookbook (grilling, baking, etc), a single-category cookbook (vegetables, desserts, etc.), or a theme cookbook (Star Wars! medieval! cheap eats!), or based around a particular culinary theory (California cuisine, nouvelle French, organic, retro, kitchen science, etc), or just quirky and unusual in some other way.

I love these cookbooks, I collect them, I read them voraciously, and I'd love recs for more. :D If you, like me, can never pick a single favorite book, you can name two or three (or five or eight). I would like to know what makes the cookbook(s) special or interesting to you, though, if you could.

I'll post my own cookbook list/favorite cookbooks shortly.

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[profgreg.livejournal.com]

I'll second "I'm Just Here for More Food", just because it's Alton Brown, not because I actually cook or anything (even tho I'm pretty sure you already have it :-). And by proxy, on behalf of my vegan friends, I'll recommend "Vegan with a Vengeance" by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (from which I've eaten a number of surprisingly tasty things). I'll also mention her new book "Veganomicon", just because I like the funny title.