Favorite Cookbooks

We asked our friends on Twitter and Facebook for the names of some of their favorite cookbooks. You can be sure that people feel very strongly about their preference. I, for one, am excited to have this information….

We asked our friends on Twitter and Facebook for the names of some of their favorite cookbooks.  You can be sure that people feel very strongly about their preference.  I, for one, am excited to have this information. I am a member of not one but two book clubs (one of which is online), perhaps this ought to be the foundation of a cookbook club.

Within the pages of the cookbooks listed below, I am sure there are a few all time favorite recipes, some soon-to-be family favorite recipes, and surely a few healthy recipes. At least that is what I am hoping for.

Below is a direct copy of each person’s response to the question: What is your favorite cookbook?

• @ktjocook : “More With Less”, “Simply in Season” & “Extending the Table” – all great resources!
• @AmateurFoodies Favorite is so difficult. Most recent inspiration though: Momofuku.
• @erinswing My fave cookbook recently is “The Country Cooking of Ireland” by Colman Andrews. I’m biased . James Beard winner of year!
• @pontowd : $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook by Erin Chase has just became my fav cookbook..love it
• @WovenDimensions : (I am being biased here) but MINE…LOL – coming out this summer!
• @julochka : Nigel Slater’s “Real Food” and Jamie Oliver’s “Happy Days” Nigella’s “Forever Summer” oops, that was 3 faves.
• @Shannan Boyer I swear I am not biased, but my friend Erin wrote a cookbook—$5 Dinners, and it’s great. Healthy recipes and meals that families can afford.
• @tasteofbelgium : silver spoon. fantastic italian cookbok. very comprehensive.
• Mike Morton
  “Momofuku”, not only good recipes but it’s almost like a new age “kitchen confidential”, just without the heroine and cocaine.
• Kyla Brennan
  I love any charity cookbooks. They are always a collaboration of everryone’s best and favorite recipes….
• Angelina Sinclair
  Hi, Caitlin. I LOVE Jessica Seinfeld’s “Deceptively Delicious” for kids and men who eat like kids , aka my fiance.
• Ron Harper
  I have a Joy Of Cooking that’s at least 15 years old.
• Peggy Shannon
  The Flavor Bible; The Art of Simple Food: Alice Waters; The French Laundry + Bouchon: Thomas Keller; Mantra: Jehangir Mehta; sadly, everything Nigella, and of course, the Elvis Cookbook!

And if you thought it couldn’t get any better, check out the quick interview below with Cumin Executive Chef Owen Maass.  Within the short clip below, he reveals his top 3 cookbooks (…at the moment).

To learn more about Chef Owen Maass and his 7-hour chicken be sure to check out our coverage of The Midwest Culinary Institute’s One Night, Twelve Kitchens.