Cookbooks Galore

I was an advid cookbook and magazine collector before the web became a major source of information on food (yeah I might show my age...but I did have overlap-Real Info didn't really start heavily until 2000-HAH!). So all my cookbook collections serve me extremely well to this day.

Here is a list of some of the cookbooks I reccommend to anyone who loves to cook or bake...These books, no matter the resources of the Web are invaluable!  Mind you-The Web is 80% up to date, but if you want to capture some history of recipes, books are the way to go, since eventually publishing stops for some of these publications and even some family Heirloom recipes are lost forever.

I have tons more, but here are a few to get started (In no particular order). Mind you, these are heavy, fat books except for "The Stinking Cookbook".

• The Professional Pastry Chef ISBN: 0-772-01597-6
• Dessert Circus ISBN: 0-688-15654-1
• The Dean and Deluca Cookbook ISBN: 0-679-77003-8
• The New Professional Chef (CIA) ISBN: 0-442-01961-0
• The Joy of Cooking ISBN: 0-684-81870-1
• The Stinking Cookbook ISBN: 0-89087-730-0
• Webster's New World Dictionary of Culinary Arts ISBN: 0-13-475732-7
• Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Handbook ISBN: 0-88011-326-X
• Jacques Pepin-Today's Gourmet ISBN: 0-912333-07-3
• The Frugal Gormet Cooks American ISBN: 0-688-06347-0
• The Oxford Companion to Food 2nd Edition ISBN: 0192806815/ ISBN-13: 9780192806819

Magazine Favorites of the Past...

• Saveur
• Food & Wine
• La Cucina
• Cooks Illustrated (Show is on PBS.)
• Gourmet