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I hardly ever refer to cookbooks since the internet. However, I still do look up some holiday recipes in the Good Housekeeping and Better Homes & Gardens cookbooks that my mother used.
I have gobs of cookbooks---but I do have some faves, I suppose. My #1 fave is The Silver Palate Cookbook (Rosso & Lukins). It was gift from a friend many moons ago---and it's a keeper! Another fave is The Ayurvedic Cookbook by Amadea Morningstar--so nutritious and interesting. Yet another is Vegetariana by Nava Atlas---she wrote and illustrated this book (the illustrations alone are simply delightful!). Oh man---there are so many I love and refer to often!
Also, when my Mom passed away I gathered up scores of her handwritten recipes and old cookbooks from the 50s and 60s---so these treasures are also referred to time and time again! I especially love her homemade apfelstrudel---to die for!
Basic stuff - my old Better Homes and Gardens cookbook
My grandmother's church cookbooks. Lots of old-country Italian recipes there.
I have two Sunset cookbooks where I can always find something to try.
The "365 Ways to Cook ... " series. I have chicken, pasta, Mexican, Italian and barbecuing/grilling.
I use my Better Homes & Garden and Southern Living cookbooks as my basics. I also have a ton of cookbooks and there are a few that are my favorites, such as my Irish Potato cookbook (a little book completely devoted to the Irish spud) my Harry Potter inspired cookbook and the Pioneer Woman cookbooks- I actually met her at a book signing and she was a total sweetheart!
I use the Internet almost exclusively now, but there were many, many years when Peg Bracken's "I Hate to Cook Book" and the sequels got me through dinner parties and large family gatherings, not to mention just feeding the two of us pretty darn well.
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