The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook31 reviews
Martha Stewart Living Magazine

Clarkson Potter, 2000

Fruitcake Lovers Unite!

+ Another Good One From Ms. Martha!!
+ Love to cook - love to eat even more!

I love fruitcake and I have sampled so many recipes that my friends call me Dr. Fruitcake! Martha Stewart's recipe is the greatest! It's more than just fruit and nuts loaded with rum. It has body, and character. No holiday table should be without this recipe and several others featured in this fine ...
  
  











  



  
The Whole Foods Market Cookbook23 reviews
Steve Petusevsky, Inc. Whole Foods

Clarkson Potter, 2002

Excellent!! My favorite cookbook

+ Please be fair
+ found recipes I've been looking for!
+ Great information, great eats!
  
  











  



  
The Tra Vigne Cookbook16 reviews
Michael Chiarello

Chronicle Books, 1999

Gorgeous pictures, in depth content, delicious recipe

+ Excellent for casual weekday meals
+ Nice cookbook
+ Seasonal Cooking at its Best
+ He Can Write AND Cook
  
  











  



  
Best of Craig Claiborne: 1,000 Recipes from His New York Times Food Columns and Four of His Classic Cookbooks4 reviews
Craig Claiborne, Pierce Franey, ...

Crown, 1999

Lots of High Quality Bang for Your Buck in this Book

+ One of the best ever!
+ Must have cookbook

This book belongs to a special class of cookbooks where you get a whole lot of recipes for a low price per recipe. These books are not like `The Joy of Cooking' or `James Beard's American Cookery' where you get a lot of advice on cuts of meat, types of potatoes, and techniques for making an ...
  
  











  



  
James Beard's American Cookery20 reviews
James Beard

Little, Brown and Company, 1980

My Favorite Cookbook

+ I Trust These Recipes Completely
+ A little bit of Americana
+ An absolute necessity
  
  











  



  
The Rose Pistola Cookbook: 140 Italian Recipes from San Francisco's Favorite North Beach Restaurant2 reviews
Reed Hearon, Peggy Knickerbocker

Broadway, 1999

Rose Pistola - Satisfying and Easy

+ It's fabulpus!!

Reed Heron is a successful restaurant owner in San Francisco who constantly packs the house with quality food. It's a place where men like to go and women like to be seen. The same goes for his cookbook. These are easy to prepare recipes that give lots of interesting tastes to satisfy your need ...
  
  











  



  
The Magnolia Bakery Cookbook: Old-Fashioned Recipes From New York's Sweetest Bakery74 reviews
Jennifer Appel, Allysa Torey

Simon & Schuster, 1999

Perfect recipes for delicious goodies

+ Magnolia Bakery must be awesome
+ Magnolia Bakery - Yum!

This cookbook has some wonderfully basic recipes that will be at the top of your list when looking for something really good to bake. My daughter has this and had baked the white birthday cake out of it for my granddaughter's birthday. It was so moist and really excellent. We use it for all ...
  
  











  



  
The Cakebread Cellars Napa Valley Cookbook: Wine and Recipes to Celebrate Every Season's Harvest2 reviews
Jack Cakebread, Dolores Cakebread, ...

Ten Speed Press, 2003

For Cooks--and for California Dreamin'

+ Great Idea for a Gift Basket for that Wine Lover!!

By Bill Marsano. If you haven't heard of Jack and Dolores Cakebread it's probably because their wine is so fine it's always on allocation--there's not enough to go around, so the annual production is allocated to customers and restaurateurs who supported the Cakebreads when they founded their ...
  
  











  



  
Sunset Cookbook Classics: 8 Cookbooks in 1 Volume1 review

Oxmoor House, 2000

Eight in One!

This volume has all the most popular Sunset cookbooks. My favorite is the Cookies section, followed by the Appetizers. Loads of pictures, and clear instructions. Particuarly good for beginners, and a basic resource for more experienced cooks.
  
  











  



  
The Candle Cafe Cookbook: More Than 150 Enlightened Recipes from New York's Renowned Vegan Restaurant44 reviews
Joy Pierson, Bart Potenza, ...

Clarkson Potter, 2003

Dependably, delightfully delectable!

+ Best cookbook!
+ Great Restaurant, Good Book

Cooking from this cookbook has been a delight. My girlfriend and I have cooked perhaps ten recipes from the pages of this Vegan gem. I can say comfortably that none of the recipes we've cooked are anything less than extremely tasty. Ingredients can tend towards being expensive; the stroganoff ...
  
  











  



  
The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Every Day23 reviews
Martha Stewart

Clarkson Potter, 1995

Martha to the rescue!

+ Fine compilation of Martha Stewart's recipes
+ Awesome!!!!!!!
+ The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Every Day
  
  











  



  
The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook24 reviews
Larry Flax, Rick Rosenfield

Wiley, 1995

Love this book

+ Be prepared for a bit of complexity
+ As good as it gets

I love this cookbook. As far as the dough recipes go, I have no idea if they turn out well because I use a Boboli pizza crust. If your a Rachael Ray fan, you'll figure out how to make most of these pizzas with the quickness. My favorite CPK pizza is the peking duck pizza, since my grocery store ...
  
  











  



  
El Cholo Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from California's Best-Loved Mexican Kitchen3 reviews
Merrill Shindler

Angel City Press, 1998

The cookbook is as memorable as the restaurant

+ No longer a native.......
+ A great cookbook!

I first went to El Cholo when I was a child from Manhattan. When we moved to LA, it was the first restaurant my parents took me to. And it was as good as we remembered. Last week I made the green corn tamales from the recipe in this book and they came out great! I love this cookbook.
  
  











  



  
Gourmet Ckbk V23 reviews
Gourmet Magazine

Not Avail

one of the great classics

+ Good Recipes - But Not Very Colorful
+ the best cookbook on my shelf

sometimes their recipe testing is faulty, but overall this should be a standard---both volumes! For putting together a dinner menu for 6 it is magnificent, and will keep the cook as well as the guests enthralled. (nice margins for personal notes, too). As a soup maven, I found the soup section ...
  
  











  



  
Chez Panisse Café Cookbook14 reviews
Alice L. Waters

William Morrow Cookbooks, 1999

More than a Cookbook, not quite a Classic

+ A good exposition of Alice Waters' work
+ You Didn't Expect To Cook With This, Did You?
+ Great book for the serious cook
  
  











  



  
The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook: America's Bestselling Step-by-Step Cookbook, with More Than 1,400 ...45 reviews

Hearst, 2001

Great buy

+ Terrific illustrations and directions
+ Good Housekeeping Cookbook
+ a staple for beginners
  
  











  



  
The James Beard Cookbook15 reviews
James A. Beard

Da Capo Press, 2002

A unique cookbook

+ Useful Recipe Book
+ A fine "first" cookbook -- hundreds of recipes
+ James Beard cookbook
+ Great for beginners
  
  











  



  
New York Times Cookbook27 reviews
Craig Claiborne

William Morrow Cookbooks, 1990

Don't Lose This Cookbook!

+ New York Times Cookbook
+ Like Replacing an Old Friend
+ the best
+ One of my top 5 cookbooks.
  
  











  



  
Junior League Centennial Cookbook16 reviews
Junior League International

Broadway, 1996

AWESOME!

+ Junior League Cookbook
+ Great cookbook
+ Great collection!
  
  











  



  
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook6 reviews
Alice Waters

Random House, 1995

A Classic You Must Have

+ Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook

There's a special reason we go to the books of the great chefs. It's not to throw a meal together in 2 minutes, or to make sure we will find a dish we can cook with no trouble in two pans in our kitchens at home. It's to look inside an imagination and see what someone can achieve with ingredients ...