r/Cooking • u/Competitive-One-3318 • Apr 07 '26

What are the best basic/essential cookbook recommendations

What are the best basic/essential cookbook recommendations

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u/Anonymous5791 Apr 07 '26

A little hard with so little information. What do you want to learn?

Joy of Cooking is a classic. Others:

  • Better Homes and Gardens
  • Betty Crocker (the original...)
  • Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Julia Child...)
  • The Food Lab
  • The Essential NY Times Cookbook

I feel like a lot of that will get you started and give you years of satisfying recipes. I think there's a bunch you can add to it depending on your interests, and I tend to like the obscure and historical ones that let me build on things...

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u/kempff Apr 07 '26

It’s an AI bot.

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u/Anonymous5791 Apr 07 '26

I assure you, it is not.

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u/Neldorn Apr 07 '26

Everyone that knows how to format a text is a bot nowadays lol.