Best cookbook on Reddit

"Is an excellent, although a bit old, book."

"Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything"

"Mark Bittman - How To Cook Everything"

"How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman sounds right up your alley."

"Is excellent."

"Depending on how young your teen is."

"One of my favorites. It has loads of options for all skill levels, and goes into the nitty gritty on various preparation methods, ingredients, substitutes, etc."

"Its the most idiot proof book I have encountered in a long life of being a professional kitchen creep."

"Covers everything from snacks to full meals using basic ingredients."

"This one’s a solid go-to for easy, wholesome meals."

"You should look at the America's Test Kitchen books."

"The recipes are down to perfection and tested."

"Anything by America's Test Kitchen."

"I learn so much from all their recipes, such a science based approach to cooking and baking."

"Why not just explore ATKs vast library of books. There are so many to choose from."

"Americas test kitchen! I got it as a gift for christmas one year and it was life changing."

"The recipes are good and approachable."

"Joy of cooking. There might even be cooking for dummies book."

"Joy of cooking and Harold Magee."

"Covers a TON."

"Joy of Cooking - I think a lot of people overlook it, but the newest addition has some great added recipes from around the world."

"Maybe showing my age but Joy of Cooking."

"Joy of Cooking. The best thing I ever got as a gift."

"I've heard great things about this cookbook. I'm definitely a 'dessert person' so it would be totally fitting for me."

"One nice thing about Dessert Person is that there are a lot of videos up on Youtube."

"They’re excellent."

"My cookbook club recently did Dessert Person. It was a hit!"

"Whats for Dessert and Dessert Person are by Claire Saffitz of Bon Appetit fame."

"I would absolutely second Beatrix Bakes/ Nat Paull. Every recipe is a stone cold classic."

"Betty Crocker or Better Homes and Gardens."

"Is my go to for nearly everything."

"And for just learning to cook Betty Crocker cookbook has so much info."

"I would recommend a Betty Crocker, Taste of Home, or Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman) cookbook."

"Betty Crocker. Most OG shit, and some basic info as well."

"Get an old Betty Crocker cookbook."

"Any of the Smitten Kitchen or New York Times cookbooks!"

"Smitten kitchen has a book but her website is also incredible with an actually organized very helpful recipe index"

"Has fantastic vegetarian and vegan recipes."

"Really great resource for tons of basics and meal prep ideas"

"Her first cookbook is my most used cookbook by far."

"Cooking out of Mi Cocina by Rick Martinez and Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden."

"Every. single. recipe. SLAPS."

"We’ve made a few things out of it so far and they’ve all been delicious."

"I love Rick Martinez’s book."

"Rick Martinez or Rick Bayless books"

"The Korean Vegan, or Vegan Japaneasy are faves!"

"A fave this time of year."

"Deborah Madison, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone."

"I would go with something by Deborah Madison. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is super solid."

"Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is the encyclopedia every household needs."

"Love Real Food by Cookie and Kate."

"I love the cook book from the woman behind the website Cookie and Kate."

"Her corn chowder is amazing, I add chorizo and grilled chicken."

"I love the Love Real Food cookbook. It's vegetarian but super approachable."

"I really like the website and cookbook from cookieandkate.com."

"I like Ali Slagle's I Dream of Dinner."

"Ali Slagle's 'I dream of dinner' is a great cookbook that I use all the time for easy meals."

"It is designed for recipes to have relatively short ingredient lists."

"Both Plant You, and Plant You Scrappy Cooking by Carleigh Bodrug are fantastic."

"PlantYou by Carleigh Bordug"

"Check out plant you! has an excellent falafel recipe that i make once a week"

"Plant You! Vegan, easy, delicious."

"The Joy of Cooking."

"Joy of Cooking was my bible for years."

"The joy of cooking."

"Joy of cooking. It tells you EVERYTHING."

"Kenji Lopez-Alt - THE FOOD LAB."

"The Food Lab by Kenji Lopez Alt."

"Won a James Beard award. I haven’t cooked out of it personally but it is highly regarded."

"The Wok by Kenji Lopez-Alt is, by far, the cookbook I've used most over the past year."

"Skinnytaste! Website is also helpful."

"Are amazing and super easy."

"Any of the SkinnyTaste cookbooks (Gina Homolka) - or even just the recipes her website! TONS of delicious recipes of all kinds that are WeightWatchers adjacent, so they’re using lots of real food and taking macros into account."

"The Skinnytaste ones are good."

"It explains the science of cooking and includes alternative ingredients for each recipe"

"Is a good option too."

"Salt Fat Acid Heat (watch the Netflix series of the same name too)."

"Salt Fat Acid Heat is good to listen to since the first half of the book is just text."

"A cookbook that everyone seems to love."

"All of Ottolenghi's books fit your description. I recommend starting with _Ottolenghi: Simple_."

"Introduced me to Ottolenghi and a way of approaching flavors and textures unlike any cookbook."

"Essentials of Italian Cooking- Hazen."

"I have and love Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking and Marcella's Italian Kitchen by Hazan."

"Great, I haven’t been disappointed with anything I’ve made out of it yet."

"Italian cook books written in English: Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking."

"Everything I've made has turned out wonderful."

"I really enjoy Milk Street The World in a Skillet!"

"Milk Street Tuesday Night Mediterranean."

"Milk Street's The world in a skillet. It's supposed to be a bunch of 12-in skillet meals pulled from cuisines around the world."

"I like “Dessert Person” and make quite a few recipes from it regularly."

"I absolutely love it. It has a matrix in the front that shows how difficult and how time consuming each recipe is."

"Dessert Person is great!"

"A good simple cook book I refer to often is Better homes and Gardens."

"Both have not only a wide range of recipes of varying difficulty."

"It's a great beginner textbook, and every recipe is solid."

"I'm a bit fan of Julia Turshen’s first book (Small Victories)."

"A great place to start all around."

"I love Small Victories so much, it's the coziest book."

"Any book by Rick Bayless"

"Anything by Rick Bayless. His first book is amazing."

"Any cookbook by Master Chef Rick Bayless"

"Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly. It covers all the basics."

"Sohla El-Waylly's new cookbook, it's great for beginners."

"Books are a great place to start."

"I'd go with either a Diana Kennedy book, or Mely Martinez' book"

"Diana Kennedy or Rick Bayless for Mexican"

"Snoop Dogg's "From Crook to Cook" Cookbook is perfect for young guys."

"Snoop Dogg has two great cookbooks."

"Best orange chicken recipe I've ever made."

"Power Plates by Gena Hamshaw"

"Two of my favorites are Power Plates by Gena Hamshaw and Vegan on the Cheap by Robin Robertson."

"Gena Hamshaw's books, Power Plates and The Vegan Week might be up your alley."

"Nothing has sparked quite as much creativity for me across the board as 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat'."

"It changed the way I cook."

"Made for people who want to learn cooking without a recipe while following recipes."

"Any books by Madhur Jaffrey; Raghavan Iyer did 660 Curries (incredible), also On the Curry Trail; Meera Sodha, again, anything she writes."

"Madhur Jeffrey, Julie Sahini are classics."

"You can't go wrong with any of Madhur Jaffrey's cookbooks."

"Beautiful through and through."

"Tu Casa Mi Casa, Enrique Olvera"

"Lots of basic salsas and dishes"

"Give it a whirl with Julia Child."

"It's a huge book full of various recipes and good ideas."

"Lots of helpful shit."

"I would suggest Najmieh's Food of Life, reminds me of home."

"While they are both excellent I would recommend the former first."

"I think of it as my point of reference that covers almost everything within Persian cuisine."

"Is much better than Meera Sodha's East. I know everyone loves East but I own both and I use the former far more often."

"She has instant pot and conventional stovetop instructions for all her recipes."

"It looks very healthy and tasty but I haven't tried any of it yet, but it's got a lot of vegetable recipes."

"That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week: A Cookbook by Carla Lalli Music."

"That Sounds so Good from Carla Lalli Music was my favorite for the past year!"

"This book probably looks more advanced, but she writes her recipes clearly and in order of procedure."

"Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden would be great for this."

"The recipes are all about making the ingredients shine, and are pretty straightforward for a home cook."

"Six Seasons (Joshua McFadden?) would also be up your alley."

"Cannot say enough about Kenji’s ‘The Food Lab’."

"The Food Lab, On Food and Cooking, The Whole Fish Cookbook."

"The Food Lab is a science-based cookbook; it explains why processes work etc."

"Defined dish!! So healthy and tasty"

"Defined Dish also has a lot of really great gluten free recipes."

"Defined Dish"

"I borrowed it from the library recently, and it is now on my wish list."

"Dishoom does have a mix of more basic and more advanced recipes but it can be very ingredient heavy."

"Is a great book but be aware it’s about the specific cuisine of Iranian cafe in Bombay."

"For VERY simple and tasty the Vegan Stoner cookbook."

"Most of my meals come from her recipes."

"America’s Test Kitchens are really good!"

"I love the cookbooks from America’s Test Kitchen."

"Every. single. recipe. SLAPS."

"For a broad introduction to Indian cooking, I strongly suggest Julie Sahni’s *Classic Indian Cooking*."

"I have very nearly “Julia and Julia-d” it, and I love it."

"I’m a big fan of Meera Sodha’s books, particularly East."

"Her two cookbooks are even better!"

"The Loopy Whisk (blog and cookbooks) are THE BEST! Everything I've tried has turned out awesome."

"I really like the Whole 30 cookbook because it has tons of sauce recipes in it and none of it will have gluten."

"Really like the whole30 cookbook the entire back explains basic cooking techniques."

"The Bread Bible has a ton of recipes that are easy to follow."

"I like The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum."

"Not a cookbook but I love Budget Bytes for simple, wholesome, and easy recipes."

"What I love specifically about Budget Bytes is you can adjust the recipe to the number of servings."

"RecipeTin Eats published two cookbooks and have some great varied recipes."

"Nagi - Recipetin Eats. She's Australian, but she has a huge US following."

"Healthy, delicious, and approachable recipes."

"Nearly all of the vegetarian recipes can be modified to vegan."

"Is an absolute gem."

"Fab day to day meals as well as special occasions."

"Gets used in my house at least weekly, highly recommend."

"The food of sichuan by fuschia Dunlop"

"Is amazing, everything I've made so far is delicious and nothing is too complicated."

"Reflections and Recipes from Omma's Kitchen."

"[Simply Korean by Aaron Huh](https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Korean-Recipes-Favorites-Anyone/dp/0744063523?crid=3GFUZB4L2XOW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.fUux_GZgZ-dhi6SRGotCh_O2t1JT1R2U3cIvfmjX_wM.JXn_CdDMEUScVn2GAIhRBKJcl5j-ECghYs41ardrs3M&dib_tag=se&keywords=aaron+huh&qid=1731961995&s=books&sprefix=aaron+huh%2Cstripbooks%2C119&sr=1-1)"

"Best Korean cookbook ever. Aaron and Claire also have an active YouTube station."

"Salt fat acid heat as well as others have mentioned."

"Covers a lot of territory, and is good for cooks who already know what to do."

"The recipes are authentic."

"I love this vegan Thai digital cookbook."

"Is a lovely book."

"Is a lovely Korean Cookbook."

"I am going to second the King Arthur recommend. For me it is the foundation of breads."

"The King Arthur Baking School Book!"

"I'm picky and I've rarely been disappointed with anything I've made from her books."

"Isa Does It (also an Isa Moskowitz book) is a great step up and one of my favorites of all time."

"It really does simplify a lot."

"Weeknight Vegetarian - great book for getting into vegetarian cooking."

"The books I use most: Deep Run Roots: Vivian Howard."

"If they like southern cooking in general Vivian Howard's Deep Run Roots is an absolute treasure."

"Simply Julia and Skinnytaste are great!"

"I find Simply Julia, Smitten Kitchen, and Smitten Kitchen Keepers to be three great, simple all purpose books."

"A similar good book is *The Heart of the Plate* by Mollie Katzen. again, up to date recipes."

"I would recommend *The Heart of the Plate* by Mollie Katzen."

"I love the following: 1. Any Whole 30 cookbook 2. Any Nom Nom Paleo 3. The Defined Dish by Alex Snodgrass."

"Nom nom paleo is great, as is the first Defined Dish cookbook."

"Melissa Clark’s Dinner in One sounds like it was written for you."

"I do love Melissa Clark’s “dinner in one” which has a mix of single dish meals."

"I still have her cookbooks that I used decades ago."

"If it were American, I'd go for Martha Stewart (home cooking), or Julia Child (basic French)."

"Reallllly loved the Ambitious Kitchen cookbook that came out this year."

"I like ambitious kitchen (just the blog, the cookbook isn’t that exciting)."

"My brother swears by them."

"Plant you, Save with Jamie, the zero waste chef, cook more waste less."

"We used Oh She Glows when we were dealing with a medical issue with my son and liked everything we made."

"I've found the recipes in 'Oh She Glows' to be relatively simple to make and quite tasty."

"The first two Bosh books are amazing."

"Not sure where you’re based but the BOSH books are great."

"My teen and young adult sons love doing meal kits!"

"Meal kits taught me how to cook."

"Not at all Belgian, but Alison Roman's books are gold if you can find them."

"Really good with vegetables."

"Try the Good and Cheap cookbook."

"I'm a big fan of *Good and Cheap*. It’s not specifically lunch prep, but it does have a "large batches" section."

"Pasta Grannies is super cute, would be cute as a gift!"

"It is indeed a cute concept and great book!"

"For pastries i like Modern Vegan Baking, photos are ok but the recipes are quite good."

"[Modern Vegan Baking] has a great easy to follow recipes."

"I also still use Chrissy Tiegen’s first two books occasionally."

"Chrissy Teigen has some really good sandwiches."

"River cottage veg."

"Check out some of the Milk Street cookbooks (they have a specifically vegetables one, I don’t have that exact one though) and River Cottage Veg."

"This is an old out of print book but you can find it on Amazon."

"This is an old out of print book but you can find it on Amazon."

"Carolyn Ketchum's Keto cookbooks are pretty solid and easy to understand."

"Are pretty good."

"Deceptively Delicious? It has a pink cover with pink and green writing."

"There's the one by Jessica Seinfeld - Deceptively Delicious"

"It seems like a great book for kids learning to cook."

"Buddy Oliver lets cook (also haven’t tried this one)"

"Leizel Jayne has amazing lower calorie recipes."

"The Defined Dish (Comfortable Kitchen or Dinner Tonight) - easy."

"I second Danielle Walker 'Against All Grain' and I really love all of Pete Evans books."

"Ina Garten’s Go-To Dinners cookbook is great."

"Check out the books by Yasmin Khan. One is Cypriotic/Turkish/Greek, one is Palestinian, and the final one Iranian."

"Anupy Singla is very good as well!"

"Any of Vegan Richa's cookbooks!"

"They definitely are some of the best Paleo cookbooks I have."

"I also recommend picking up a copy of McCall's Cookbook (dated 1960s)."

"Check out as well how to cook everything basics."

"I feel like the classic Moosewood Cookbook might be a good fit."

"Has some recipes as mushroom as sources of protein, they got some indian recipes there too."

"Ideas in food by Aki Kamozawa and Alexander Talbot."