Professional Cooking Books

Have cooked several recipes from this book. All have been very good. Have purchased two more as gifts for Christmas....Love this book

Pros: good results, great recipes

The classic Spanish crowd-pleaser – over 50 recipes including meat, fish and veggie versionsWith beautiful photography throughout, and straightforward, step-by-step instructions, Paella is a joy to cook from and an essential for every kitchen shelf.

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For Alex Guarnaschelli—whose mother edited the seminal 1997 edition of The Joy of Cooking, which defined the food of the late twentieth century—a life in food and cookbooks was almost predestined. Now an accomplished chef and author in her...

Melissa Clark brings her home cook expertise and no-fuss approach to the world of one-pan cooking. With most of the recipes being made in under one hour, the streamlined steps ensure you are in and out of the kitchen without dirtying a multitude of pans...

coook book...this is the greatest book, lover Sur La Table...Perfect for cooks and collectors

Pros: great book, illustrations, recipe found

Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine. She’s introduced us to black cooks, some long forgotten, who established much of what’s considered to be our national cuisine....

This book is full of wonderful recipes... and also useful information on Dutch ovens and enameled cast iron pans.

Pros: wonderful recipes, functionality, quality

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.

The family behind the acclaimed blog The Wok’s of Life shares 100 of their favorite home-cooked and restaurant-style Chinese recipes including Cantonese Roast Duck, Min Char Siu Bao and Spicy Biang Biang Noodles....

The recipes are delicious, and I do like the taco evolution stories within the book, to the point where I'd consider it a coffee table book.

Pros: recipes, variety of tacos, taco evolution stories

A captivating collection of stories and recipes from renowned chefs, local cooks, and celebrity friends of José Andrés’s beloved nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which feeds communities impacted by natural disasters and humanitarian crises; with a foreword...

Featured in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Wall Street Journal, Wine Enthusiast, The Kitchn, Cup of Jo, Food52 and The Today Show and nominated for a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Cookbooks.

Organized into seven chapters and introducing innovative...

Pros: variety of choices

James Beard Award winning author Georgeanne Brennan shares a lifetime of French farmhouse cooking—combining ingredients from forest, field, sea, and stream—in casual meals for friends and family. Following an approach to daily cooking that’s rooted firmly...

Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce...

In Justice of the Pies, Maya-Camille Broussard shares more than 85 recipes for sweet and savory pies and other mouthwatering creations that put her social mission-based bakery on the map, including her famous Salted Caramel Peach Pie and Brandied Banana...

Introducing the only cookbook to put homemade bread and convenience in the same sentence—whether you're a beginner baker or an enthusiast. Learn seven core recipes and then manipulate them into different shapes and flavors with ease for tons of new breads....

Great cook book!...Cooking with Fire is exactly what a cook needs to get started.

Pros: recipes, ideas, versatility

Bringing together authentic recipes from Italy, Greece, Provence, northern Africa, and the Middle East, DK’s Mediterranean Cookbook gives cooks the necessary tools to recreate the flavors of the Mediterranean in their own homes. Fresh, healthy,...

In this stunning and deeply heartfelt tribute to Black culinary ingenuity, Bryant Terry captures the broad and divergent voices of the African Diaspora through the prism of food. With contributions from more than 100 Black cultural luminaires from around...

Featuring more than 125 recipes, My America is a celebration of the food of the African Diaspora, as handed down through Kwame Onwuachi’s own family history, spanning Nigeria to the Caribbean, the South to the Bronx, and beyond. From Nigerian Jollof,...

Named one of Bon Appetit's Best Cookbooks of Spring 2023 and one of Forbes Best Cookbooks of Spring 2023

From Sarah Kieffer, the beloved baker behind the bestselling 100 Cookies and Baking for the Holidays, and the popular Vanilla Bean Blog, here are...

From James Beard Award-winning and NYT best-selling author Dorie Greenspan comes a baking book of more than 150 exciting recipes. A must-have for any fan, this special copy has been signed by the author herself.

Say "Dorie Greenspan" and think...

With the fifth book in the #1 New York Times Best Selling Young Chef SeriesAmerica's Test Kitchenis bringing its scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to kids in the kitchen!

Have you ever wondered about the best way to chop an...

James Beard Award winner Kevin Pang and his dad Jeffrey, hosts of the hit America’s Test Kitchen series Hunger Pangs, show you the way to delicious Chinese cooking in this accessible, funny, heartfelt cookbook.

From American Chinese classics to Sichuan...

Named one of Bon Appetit's Best Cookbooks of Spring 2023!

Tin to Table cracks open the secrets of tinned fish cooking with over 50 recipes, from no-fuss snacks to fresh salads, hearty mains, and creative no-recipe recipes for quick pop-and-eat meals.

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