Big News! We are at 25,000 members and growing in The Cookbook Junkies! I’ll have a special giveaway to post toward the end of March and will have a few new cookbook giveaways to share in the next week but today I have something else to share.
One of the things I love to do is hit the thrift stores and I always check the cookbook selection. I pick up copies of what I feel are great titles for friends, but over the last month, I’ve been collecting copies of some of my favorites that I’ve been lucky enough to find extras of – or were given an opportunity to receive from a friend who was giving them away (thanks Nancy for three titles!)
The books are as follows: Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Book, Hello, Cupcake!, Mexico One Plate at a Time, Icebox Pies, Dessert Circus, Heart of the Artichoke, The Cake Bible, Chocolate, Home Baking, Buvette, Chocolate Cake and Whimsical Bake Shop. The links will take you to descriptions of the books. It’s almost 25 pounds of books! Well, almost.
The giveaway will be a bit different – if you are the winner – and there are titles you already have – you may choose to gift them to a local friend of yours – or you may tell me you already have The Cake Bible – so pick another winner for that title. Your choice.
Random Number Generator picked #40 Jennifer Essad.
GIVEAWAY: The giveaway is open to U.S. Addresses only as I’ll be mailing this heavy box (media mail). To enter leave a comment telling me what your all-time favorite cookbook is. A random winner will be chosen on March 15th. Good luck! Shares are not required, but appreciated.
Thanks for your support and love of cookbooks!
My all time favorite cookbook is Julia Child’s Mastering The Art Of French Cooking.
My all-time favorite cookbook is The Silver Palate Cookbook. Thanks for this wonderful giveaway, Jenny!
I love Lee Bailey’s cookbooks.
My all time favorite cook book is “The Frog Commissary Cook Book” Thanks for a great site, I always feel like I’ve found my people
My favorite book is The Joy of Cooking.
My favorite cookbook has to be Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Cookbook (I am on my second copy).
The first cookbook that I ever bought was The Betty Crocker Cookbook. The red binding has come unglued, pages are falling out. It was the book that started me out on my journey with food.
My favorite cookbook is Barefoot Contessa Family Style
My favorite cookbook is still Amy Theilen’s New Midwestern Cookbook. Congratulations on 25K!! March 15th is my 8th wedding anniversary!!
Barefoot in Paris is a favorite but any Ina is fine.
My favorite cookbook is Granny’s Hillbilly Cookbook by Irene Ryan and Cathey Pinckney. It is hilarious and features recipes from The Beverly Hillbillies.
Homemade Decadence for reminding me how great cookbooks are and getting me to collect more!
My favorite cookbook is Genius Recipes!
My favorite cookbooks are by Maida Heatter.
My favorite will probably be the family one that was made when I was 7. One of these days I will digitize and correct the errors in that thing.
My favorite cook book used to be the Silver Palate but has become Jerusalem
Julia Child, Mastering the Art of French Cooking is my all time favorite. It is truly a masterpiece.
spoonbread and strawberry wine
Congratulations on having 25,000 members!
My very favorite cookbook is one my daughter’s 2nd grade class made. Each child brought in their favorite recipe that their mom made. I love it!
The joy of cooking
My favorite cookbook is Crockery Cookery by Amble Hoffman
Joy of Cooking
I love Barefoot Contessa–her original cookbook.
So exciting, Jenny! Congrats to you. My favorite cookbook is Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food.
So many but probably my mother’s old red cover Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook.
I have a soft spot for Nigella’s How to be a Domestic Goddess as it was the book that started by love of cookbooks.
I don’t know if I can choose a favorite….most used would be Barefoot Contessa Family Style….
So many favorites, but I use most often The Fannie Farmer Cookbook.
Congrats on 25,000 members! My favorite cookbook is The New Midwestern Table.
I love Nick Malgieri’s cookbooks!
My favorite cookbook is Cooking in English, by Todd English….a close second (which is not really a cookbook, but it’s about food is Food Journeys of a Lifetime
I love the New York Times cookbooks. Still great after over 50 years.
My favorite cookbook would be the one that was put together by my Grandma’s church. It is special for a couple of reasons. I grew up next to this church and knew several of the people that provided recipes. It contains recipes from my Grandma and other relatives, some still alive and some that have passed. Plus this church has since closed it doors. Every fall the church would do a soup and sandwich(plus desserts) lunch and dinner during harvest time. Since it was located across from the grain elevator the farmers got to have something to eat while waiting to unload their grain. Recipes for what were being served that day are in this cookbook.
My favorite cookbook is one that I got directly from the author. It’s “Father Lee’s Chinese Cooking and Culture.” It’s all of his mother’s recipes from China that were adapted to American ingredients, but still taste authentic.
I still love rereading Bread Winners by the Londons
My favorites are Cookiemania and From Amish and Mennonite Kitchens. I hope divulging 2 won’t disqualify me…Thanks!
My faveis Dorie Greenspan’s baking cook book. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head but it’s fabulous!
Impossible to pick a favorite–like your children they are loved for their unique characteristics. HOWEVER, 🙂
Betty Crockers’ Cooky Book ( I still have my Mom’s very beat up/ I mean much loved/ used one besides the new replacement one, agree on all
Maida Heatter books. Another very old set that were probably grocery store deals: Cooking Magic- from the Culinary Arts Institute–different nationality/ themed paperback 5×7 booklets from the late 50s or 60s. Congrats on 25,000 members!
I do have The Cake Bible but my Favourite of 2 whole bookcases is The Joy of Cooking and I finally found a 1948 Edition,my Mother had gotten one as a Wedding Present !!!
I have a few favorites but the one I go to most is the one my mom gave me for my wedding shower in 1981. It’s Better Homes & Gardens. I love the spiral ring pages and the divided index of recipes
my favorite book is Peru; the cook book by Gaston Acurio
My favorite cookbook is Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories by Grace Young. When gifting a copy, I always give them a carbon steel wok so they can get “wokking” right away 🙂
Simply Organic by Jesse Ziff Cool
The Food Lab has become my new favorite. It’s everything I ever wanted to know in one book.
Right now my favorite is “The Food Lab” Huge book filled with lots of yummy info!
kosher by design by susie fishbein
Too many favorites, I enjoy revisiting with them individually after not opening them for awhile. this week I’m re-discovering my James Peterson books especially Cooking; Baking & Glorious French Food!
The First Ottolenghi cookbook
Oh my! This is so good its bad! lol Thank you for all that you do.
My signed Emeril Lagasse cookbook! I don’t even like all the recipes.. but I’ll always remember getting it signed when I was little!
I have so many favourites but my emotional choice is A Piece of Cake by Susan Purdy. I learned to bake from that book and gained confidence to continue.
A close second is Paris Sweets by Dorie Greenspan.
Jenny, congratulations on 25,000 and counting. Well done you…well done us.
The sassy side of me wants to say “In the Kitchen with Rosie”, because I know how much everyone cherishes that book….. HA!
Truthfully I think the America’s Test Kitchen cookbook is the one I reach for the most. (the beef pot pie is a family favorite)
This week’s favorite is Ellie Krieger’s Comfort Food Fix 🙂 I don’t have an all time favorite cookbook.
Wow.That is really hard. But honestly the one I use the most is the Ball Blue Book of Canning
One of my faves: Never Trust a Skinny Cook, by Arlene Conant. My chunky arse loves the title and the recipes are good, too.
My current favorite is Martha Stewart’s one pot
Such a hard question. I think the Provincetown Seafood Cookbook for the memories it brings back.
Out of 3000 Cookbooks, I start with a question, where will I find what I need to know for whatever purpose is at hand.I love Tea Sandwiches, so I will go to the 7 or 8 cookbooks on serving a High Tea.Find the ideas I most like and go from there…might use a recipe or put together my own.
So hard to choose one! I gave my daughter one of my favorites … a Pillsbury cookbook. I have yet to replace it. It was such a good go-to book.
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem. It was the book that lead me to the dangerous world of cookbooks (and Cookbook Junkies!)
M’y favorite at The moment is The zuni café Great Book
Love cookbooks. Really love books period. Looking forward to entering contest.