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Shannon's "Simply Good Cookbooks and Books About Food"

These are highly rated cookbooks and books about cooking recommended by good cookbook authors, bloggers, Fine Cooking and NY Times Dining, which I either own or would like to own.
1. How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
by Mark Bittman
  
2. Bistro Cooking
by Patricia Wells
  
3. I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = Cooking
by Alton Brown
  
4. The Cook's Essential Kitchen Dictionary: A Complete Culinary Resource
by Jacques Rolland
  
5. Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
by Shirley Corriher
  
6. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
  
7. The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen
by Michael Ruhlman
  
8.
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 Mastering the Art of French Cooking
by Julia Child
  
9. The New Best Recipe: All-New Edition with 1,000 Recipes
by Editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
  
10. The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food Show
by Lynne Rossetto Kasper
  
11.
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 Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen
by Rick Bayless
  
12. The Essential Cuisines of Mexico: Revised and updated throughout, with more than 30 new recipes.
by Diana Kennedy
  
13. French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
by Peter Mayle
  
14. The Improvisational Cook
by Sally Schneider
  
15.
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 The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan
  
16. Perfect Scoop: Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Sweet Accessories
by David Lebovitz
  
17. Outstanding in the Field: A Farm to Table Cookbook
by Jim Denevan
  
18.
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 Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 250 Magnificent Recipes
by Shirley Corriher
  
19. The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor
by Matt Lee
  
20. Salt to Taste: The Key to Confident, Delicious Cooking
by Marco Canora
  
21.
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 The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
by Karen Page
  
22. Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories from a Life in Food
by Andrew Carmellini
  
23. Pure Simple Cooking: Effortless Meals Every Day
by Diana Henry
  
24. Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin
by Kenny Shopsin
  
25.
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 Living the Sweet Life in Paris
by David Lebovitz
  
26.
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 Ratios: The Secret Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
by Michael Ruhlman
  
27.
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 At Home with Ad Hoc
by Thomas Keller
  
28. Italian Farmhouse Cookbook
by Susan Herrmann Loomis
  
29. The Sustainable Kitchen : Passionate Cooking Inspired by Farms, Forests and Oceans
by Stu Stein
  
30. Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And 40 Other Kitchen Arts to Master
by Karen Solomon
  
31. My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method
by Jim Lahey
  
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Created by Shannon on Jul 22, 2008.