Bob the baker

[kodiak]

I would like to quickly introduce myself, I am Bob the baker. I mix and bake bread and pastries for a living, a career change after 21 years of managment in the federal government. With that said, my son is in a high school culinary program. I have been trying to foster his interest in cooking, since his career choices have been limited to playing his x-box 360 and cooking, and I think cooking may pan out better than the game play. Here is a question that will spark some emotion and thought, but I would like some imput. If you could have only four cookbooks in your kitchen, what would they be and why. I will ask you not include my first two choices (the Joy of Cooking and the New and Revised Edition of the Betty Crockers Cookbook). To me, these are obvious choices and have been a part of my kitchen for 25 years. Let's see what you folks come up with. Look forward to some fun discussions.
Bob

[Dough Boy]

I'll see your first two, and raise you Peter Reinhart's The Bread Baker's Apprentice. After that, the Internet is my virtual cookbook. There has never been a recipe that I have not been able to find online...somewhere!

Joe

[Drama Queen]

I have 70 cookbooks on every kind of food you can imagine. One of my favorites is my very first cookbook bought in 1963, The Doubleday Cookbook. Some of the best recipes I make are from that book. I have other favorites but too numerous to mention. Sadly, I usually go to the internet for help with a recipe, information or something new to try. I have a binder with my favorite recipes, those that are really, really good, I don't make a recipe twice unless it blows me over the first time.

I hope you read my blog "Chew On This" because only my favorites are posted there. Some of the best of them are gotten from magazines and just tweaking a written recipe to suit my own taste.

[Liketobake]

It is difficult to pick only 4 cook books, however here is what I would anyways.

Company's Coming Mostly Muffins by Jean Pare
Oetkar German Home Baking
Readers Digest Low-Calorie Cookbook
Company’s Coming Low Fat Cooking cookbook

I agree with Dough Boy the internet is one of the best sources for recipes:D

[kodiak]

I too like the internet, but there is something about a cookbook, with sauce stains and oil bled pages that keeps you flipping pages in the kitchen. It's sort of like a newspaper, probably outdated in this day and age, but still fun to go through. There is a begining, middle and end. Not so with the net.

[jenniferlee]

I too like the internet, but there is something about a cookbook, with sauce stains and oil bled pages that keeps you flipping pages in the kitchen. It's sort of like a newspaper, probably outdated in this day and age, but still fun to go through. There is a begining, middle and end. Not so with the net.

Then sometimes you can use application or program so you can read digital recipe on your computer. It is not e-book. On that program you can choose what you want to cook: For breakfast, lunch or dinner. Then there is like combo box u can use the main ingredients such as meat, vegetables, etc. It's fun..

[lesley]

I would like to quickly introduce myself, I am Bob the baker. I mix and bake bread and pastries for a living, a career change after 21 years of managment in the federal government. With that said, my son is in a high school culinary program. I have been trying to foster his interest in cooking, since his career choices have been limited to playing his x-box 360 and cooking, and I think cooking may pan out better than the game play. Here is a question that will spark some emotion and thought, but I would like some imput. If you could have only four cookbooks in your kitchen, what would they be and why. I will ask you not include my first two choices (the Joy of Cooking and the New and Revised Edition of the Betty Crockers Cookbook). To me, these are obvious choices and have been a part of my kitchen for 25 years. Let's see what you folks come up with. Look forward to some fun discussions.
Bob

Hello Bob
Welcome!
My choice of books are Margarite Patten "Everyday Cookbook" which is the 1st book I bought many years ago.
Mary Berry "Cookbook"
all of Delia Smith's
I still reference them.
I don't know how many books I own, but there are 3 shelves of them in my kitchen.
My son was always in the kitchen as a boy & although he didn't choose to cook as a profession, he cooks all the time now he's married. I think teenage years come along & computers & girls take 1st place for a time. However, if you sow the interest seeds early, you'll reap them at a later date.
If I'm cooking something he's not had before, he manages to turn up at the front door...funny that hey!