<p>Silver Palate and Silver Palate Good Times. Both contain several of my favorite recipes. Some do the early Molly Katzen books, Moosewood and Enchanted Broccoli Forest. And sometimes the Fanny Farmer Baking book or regular Farmer, for basic pumpkin bread, apricot almond bread,and a few others. I have a bookcase full of cookbooks and refer to many of them a few times a year–like them all for the memories and what we have chosen to learn from each one. And they look really nice behind the glass doors, too!</p>
<p>Who was it who recently died who wrote several Italian cookbooks that people here were raving about??</p>
<p>Marcella Hazen. My go-to author for tomato sauce and pesto.</p>
<p>We have several dozen cookbooks in the pantry but seldom open them. I sometimes will reference Julia Child’s The Way to Cook and I still go to my decades old The New Cook’s Cookbook for chicken soup. But I agree that my own binder (recipes from newspapers and magazines) and the internet are my top sources. (The binder took over for the notecard file.)</p>
<p>@VeryHappy:</p>
<p>Marcella Hazan</p>
<p>Thank you both, Marilyn and HotCanary.</p>
<p>My favorite cookbook is the Vegetarian Epicure…both volumes. I’m not sure it is still in print. Several of my favorite recipes come from that.</p>
<p>I also subscribe to Eating Well magazine…they do an excellent job of taking classics and making them more “light”.</p>
<p>But for the basics (pies, how long to roast meat, how to make a white sauce, frostings, etc), I go to Betty Crocker.</p>
<p>I love to cook and I’m an excellent home cook; as such, I have lots of cookbooks and it’s hard to have one favorite–I have a number of favorites.</p>
<p>Longtime favorites: Marcella Hazan’s 2 volumes: The Classic Italian Cookbook/More Classic Italian Cooking, Deborah Madison, The Greens Cookbook, Russo and Lukins, The Silver Palate Cookbook, and Marian Morash, The Victory Garden Cookbook. </p>
<p>I have a few famous chef/restaurant cookbooks that I really love (sometimes it’s just one dish from the book that’s wonderful): Braise by Daniel Boloud, Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller (Per Se in NY and French Laundry), Stir by Barbara Lynch (Boston–chef/restaurateur B&G Oysters, Menton, and others), and another Boston chef–Gordon Hammersley’s Bistro at Home (best roast chicken ever). Hammersley’s Bistro has been one of top restaurants in Boston for 20 years.</p>
<p>New favorites: Ottolenghi–Plenty–and his other, Jerusalem. Finally, Vietnamese Cooking at Home by Charles Phan (chef/owner of San Francisco’s The Slanted Door Restaurant).</p>
<p>I have very few cookbooks. I use Foodnetwork a lot and have an online recipe file there. Last year, my daughter hijacked my old recipe file and decided to type out recipes and put them in a binder for me. I was stumped when I went to make a cardamom bread recipe that I have used for years for Christmas…then she re-wrapped it for me and put it in my Christmas stocking 
There are a few oldies in there that I have never been able to find anywhere</p>