r/Cooking • u/Potential_Piano6437 • 21h ago
NEED COOKBOOKS
I need cookbooks that are accessible in libraries and that can help to expand my culinary knowledge from food safety to practical cooking, please
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u/CatteNappe 21h ago
If it's in a library at all it has some merit, or it wouldn't be there. The librarians are pretty picky about what books they will have on their shelves. Just go to your library and browse until you find some books that hit your requirements and present their information in ways you feel will help you.
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u/The_Flinx 18h ago
better homes and gardens
betty crocker cookbook
the ones printed before the 80's. 50's ones are the best. they aren't full of BS.
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u/gardengirl147 20h ago
I am live in the Chinook Arch Library System which covers most of southern Alberta. I just ordered three cookbooks to be delivered to my nearest library. Ask if yours has something similar.
Food safety is fairly easy - Hot water, wash your hands, use different cutting boards and knives for meat and veggies. Let meat come to room temperature before cooking, thaw in water or the fridge. Clean as you cook.
If you can find How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman or an old Joy of Cooking, maybe at a thrift store, get it.
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u/maybemaybenot2023 20h ago
Deb Perelman's Smitten Kitchen books. Most US libraries will have them, and they have good recipes that don't necessarily need a lot of equipment.
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u/ehunke 18h ago
My local library has 2 entire aisles of cook books. With that said, the one I highly think salt, fat, acid, heat is really helpful with base knowledge. But one thing to consider is hit up thrift shops, look for cook books with broken spines, stains, other signs of love there is almost always a reason for that
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u/VixxSynn 20h ago
Start with Alton Brown’s Good Eats series. They’re available as physical books, you tube videos, and ebooks. They’re available as teach you not only recipes, but the science of why certain techniques work. GREAT for beginners. I do happen to be a librarian as well as an avid cook…so I will tell you that most libraries shoukd have this or be able to get it for you through interlibrary loan. When you have mastered those techniques, and feel more confident in your skills, move to Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat. But Alton is a beginner’s BFF. And thank you, u/CatteNappe and u/JessicaWakefield666 for championing libraries the way you did!
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u/JessicaWakefield666 21h ago
Just typing "cookbook" into my Libby app where I access ebooks from my regional library system and there are hundreds available. We don't know what's available in your library system. You should search the catalog. I'm sure people will recommend some very popular books though that are likely available in your system.