Recommended Reading
General Cookbooks
Bittman, Mark. How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008.
Child, Julia. The Way to Cook. New York: Knopf, 1989.
Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. 15th ed. New York: Wiley, 2010.
Rombauer, Irma S., et al. Joy of Cooking. New York: Scribner, various editions.
On Learning to Cook Intuitively
Anderson, Pam. How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart. New York: Broadway Books, 2000.
Page, Karen, and Andrew Dornenburg. The Flavor Bible. New York: Hachette USA, 2008.
Ruhlman, Michael. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking. New York: Scribner, 2009.
Reinventing Family Dinners
David, Laurie, and Kristin Uhrenholdt, et al. The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids One Meal at a Time. New York: Grand Central Food & Style, 2010.
Lair, Cynthia. Feeding the Whole Family. Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 2008.
References for Every Kitchen
Herbst, Sharon Tyler, and Ron Herbst. The New Food Lover’s Companion. 4th ed. New York: Barron’s Educational Series, 2007.
Joachim, David. The Food Substitutions Bible: More than 5,000 Substitutions for Ingredients, Equipment and Techniques. Toronto, ON: Robert Rose, 2010.
QA International, The Visual Food Lover’s Guide. New York: Wiley, 2009.
Cooking for One
Yonan, Joe. Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2011.
Knife Skills
Ward, Chad. An Edge in the Kitchen: The Ultimate Guide to Kitchen Knives—How to Buy Them, Keep Them Razor Sharp, and Use Them Like a Pro. New York: William Morrow Cookbooks, 2008.
No-Knead Bread
Hertzberg, Jeff, and Zoë François. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Baggett, Nancy. Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads. New York: Wiley, 2009.
Strategies to Save Money on Groceries
Dacyzyn, Amy. The Tightwad Gazette. New York: Villard, 1992.
Longacre, Doris Janzen. More-with-Less Cookbook. Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 2000.
Pennington, Amy. Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen. Seattle, WA: Skipstone Press, 2010.
Soup
Kaul, Leslie, Bob Spiegel, et al. The Daily Soup Cookbook. New York: Hyperion, 1999.
Blake, Susannah. 500 Soups: The Only Soup Compendium You’ll Ever Need. Portland, ME: Sellers, 2007.
Modern Food Issues
Bloom, Jonathan. American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do About It). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010.
Fussell, Betty. The Story of Corn. Albuquerque, NM: University of Mexico Press, 2004.
Nestle, Marion. What to Eat. New York: North Point Press, 2006.
Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Understanding Nutrition Labels
Farlow, Christina Hoza. Food Additives: Shopper’s Guide to What’s Safe & What’s Not. Lafayette, LA: KISS for Health Publishing, 2007.
Vegetarian Cooking
Dragonwagon, Crescent. The Passionate Vegetarian. New York: Workman Publishing, 2002.
Madison, Deborah. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2007.
O’Donnel, Kim. The Meat Lover’s Meatless Cookbook. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010.