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The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen: Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing

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This recipes in this cookbook aren't the recipes you'd find in your usual Mongolian-Beef-Kung-Pao-Chicken-Egg-Rolls Chinese cookbook. Instead, what you'll find are traditional recipes usually cooked in Chinese homes: rice porridge, steamed pork with salted duck egg, even herbal soups. Grace Young also tells a story in each chapter about why the recipes are such an important part of her family's life--stories that I can definitely relate to as a Chinese-American.

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

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Not as good as Kitchen Confidential or Cook's Tour, but still my favorite summer read from 2006.

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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The French Laundry Cookbook

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Two words: Food Porn. Whether you actually cook the food in this book or just look, it's a feast for the senses either way.

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1

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If you could only own one cookbook, this would be it. It's a comprehensive collection of basic, tried and true recipes that have been tested by the chefs at America's Test Kitchen. There's even a story at the beginning of each recipe that tells you how the recipe was tested, what mistakes were made and what they liked before coming up with the final recipe. What this means is that chances of you f*cking up your food are slim since other people already f*cked it up for you!

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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The Japanese Kitchen

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This was the book that educated me on all the goodies at my local Japanese grocery store. Now I cook regularly with all kinds of new stuff like konyakku, dried bonito and abur-age!

Updated Aug 20, 2007

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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Chef Bourdain writes about food and cooking as it were sex: passionate but rough and nasty.

Updated Aug 16, 2007

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The Man Who Ate Everything

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"Before there was Bill Buford there was Steingarten. Few people are as erudite and no one is as food-obsessed as Steingarten, who will follow any food trail to literal absurdity." Read this first, then the follow-up, It Must Have Been Something I Ate.

Updated Jun 29, 2007

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Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

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One of my favorite chefs, on of my favorite restaurants. Truly a must have. Such elegance.

Updated Jul 1, 2008

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