Kookboeken, iedereen heeft ze wel ergens in huis staan maar niet iedereen gebruikt ze. De meest bekende sterrenchefs hebben allemaal wel een kookboek met de gerechten die iedereen wel kan klaarmaken. In een kookboek staan, behalve recepten, informatie over het gebruik van een oven, definities of omschrijvingen van bereidingstechnieken en gewichtstabellen.
Top 100 kookboeken
1 – Le Guide Culinaire: A Guide to Modern Cookery by Auguste Escoffier
2 – French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
3 – Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi
4 – La bonne cuisine de Madame E. Saint-Ange by Evelyn Saint-Ange
5 – Time Life ‘The Good Cook’ Series with Richard Olney (editor)
6 – Modernist Cuisine by Nathan Myhrvold
7 – Thai Food by David Thompson
8 – Modern Cookery for private families by Eliza Acton
9 – Simple French Food by Richard Olney
10 – The Zuni Café Cookbook by Judy Rodgers
11 – Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli
12 – Middle Eastern Cookery by Arto der Haroutunian
13 – The Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Hazan
14 – Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji
15 – The Cook’s Companion by Stephanie Alexander
16 – Land of Plenty: A Treasury of Authentic Sichuan Cooking by Fuchsia Dunlop
17 – Cuisine Minceur by Michel Guérard
18 – Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook by Fuchsia Dunlop
19 – The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
20 – Good Things By Jane Grigson
21 – The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
22 – Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
23 – The New York Times Cook Book by Craig Claiborne
24 – Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller
25 – La Cuisine du Comté de Nice by Jacques Médecin
26 – The Glorious Foods of Greece by Diane Kochilas
27 – Catalan Cuisine by Colman Andrews
28 – Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton
29 – The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Farmer
30 – Roast Chicken and other stories by Simon Hopkinson
31 – Larousse Gastronomique
32 – Flavors of the Riviera by Colman Andrews
33 – European Peasant Cookery by Elisabeth Luard
34 – The Essential Cuisines of Mexico by Diana Kennedy
35 – The Legendary Cuisine of Persia by Margaret Shaida
36 – The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie by Charlotte Clark
37 – South East Asian Food by Rosemary Brissenden
38 – Chinese Gastronomy by Hsiang Ju Lin and Tsuifeng Lin
39 – Indonesian Regional Cooking by Sri Owen
40 – The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson
41 – El Bulli 1998 – 2002 by Ferran Adria
42 – American Cookery by James Beard
43 – The Picayune Creole Cook Book
44 – The Slow Mediterranean Kitchen by Paula Wolfert
45 – Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen
46 – River Café Italian Kitchen by Gray and Rogers
47 – Salt to Taste by Marco Canora
48 – The Book of Armenian Cooking by Sonia Uvezian
49 – Miss Parloa’s New Cookbook by Maria Parloa
50 – Traditional Recipes of the Provinces of France by Curnonsky
51 – Delights from the Garden of Eden by Nawal Nasrallah
52 – Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer
53 – Bouchon by Thomas Keller
54 – The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
55 – The Provence Cookbook by Patricia Wells
56 – Desserts by Pierre Hermé by Dorrie Greenspan and Pierre Hermé
57 – Tetsuya by Tetsuya Wakuda
58 – Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking by Giuliano Bugialli
59 – Mediterranean Cookery by Claudia Roden
60 – Authentic Vietnamese Cooking by Corinne Trang
61 – Chinese Cuisine by Huang Su Huei
62 – L’Art Culinaire Moderne by Henri-Paul Pellaprat