Over the past couple of years, I have become obsessed with buying cookbooks. I love books of all kinds, but cookbooks have a special place in my heart because...well, you know. They're about FOOD! And they usually have photographs depicting delicious foodstuffs that I can salivate over when I'm hungry or bored or eating lunch (yes, I like to look at pictures of food while I'm eating...it's an illness). As I do with my non-cookbook books, I keep a Word document list of my cookbooks as well as those I would like to purchase (again...illness), so even though all of my cookbooks are currently in boxes in my mom's attic, I can tell you that I own 18 cookbooks and have 28 more titles on my wish list. Every month or so, I troll Amazon for new cookbook releases, and my wish list grows and grows. These are the books that have most recently made it onto my must-have list:
1. My Bread by Jim Lahey - Jim Lahey became a household name (well, not really) when the New York Times published his recipe for no-knead bread in 2006. Three years later, he has published 224 pages of no-knead bread wizardry...I can't wait to try it!
2. Simple Fresh Southern by Matt and Ted Lee - Simple Fresh Southern is the much-anticipated follow-up to the Lee brothers' highly successful debut cookbook, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook. Their second effort promises updated takes on classic Southern flavors and techniques and is sure to be just as big of a hit as their first.
3. Rose's Heavenly Cakes by Rose Levy Beranbaum - Rose Levy Beranbaum is the undisputed queen of cakes. According to Amazon.com, her Cake Bible is one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time. Her latest contribution to the world of baking offers her most decadent and jaw-dropping recipes yet, sure to make your dinner guests swoon (and rush out to buy their own copies of Heavenly Cakes).
4. Nigella Christmas by Nigella Lawson - I own two of Nigella's other cookbooks (How to Eat and How to be a Domestic Goddess), and it seems to me that where Nigella really shines is in creating festive yet simple holiday menus. This book would surely be useful for anyone who enjoys entertaining.
Man, I really need to have my own kitchen again!
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Well, you can't go wrong with the "Cook's Illustrated" big cookbook -- those people know how to cook! We've got a slew of cookbooks, most of which gather dust, and then there's Mary's own cookbook, full of recipes handed down from her mother. A few years ago, the kids gave me -- as a gag gift -- Giada DeLaurentis' cookbook, because Mary complained that I didn't watch the show for the recipes (I'm innocent, I tell ya!), but I have to say that every recipe we've cooked from it has been delicious.
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