These are the cookbooks and other food related books I own. My own cooking style borrows a little from each of them, but the main themes are whole ingredients, nutrient dense foods, and traditional foods and preparation methods that humans somewhere have been eating and using for at least a hundred years. Vintage cookbooks are denoted by the publication date in parentheses.
I’ve separated them into vintage cookbooks, reference books, nutrition books, and cookbooks, but the designation is very fluid, so my designations may seem arbitrary. For example, most books about nutrition contain at least a few recipes, and most cookbooks contain information about nutrition or standard reference information, and so forth.
Cookbooks
365 Favorite Brand Name Slow Cooker Recipes and More
366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains – Andrea Chesman
500 Low Carb Recipes – Dana Carpender
The $7 A Meal Slow Cooker Cookbook – Linda Larsen
Alfred Portales 12 Seasons Cookbook – Alfred Portale
Baking with Sourdough – Sara Pitzer
The Balanced Plate – Renee Loux
Best-Ever Grilling Recipe Collection – Kraft
Betty Crocker Annual Recipes 2006
Betty Crocker Slow Cooker Meals
Betty Crocker’s 4 Ingredient Dinners
Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook
The Cake Bible – Rose Levy Beranbaum
Canyon Ranch Cooking: Bringing the Spa Home – Jeanne Jones
Canyon Ranch Cooks – Barry Correia, Scott Uehlein
The Chefs of The Times – edited by Michalene Busico
Chez Panisse Vegetables – Alice Waters
Chocolate and Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen – Clotilde Dusoulier
Classic Russian Cuisine - Alla Sacharow
The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook
The Complete Vegetarian Cuisine – Rose Elliot
Cook 1.0 A Fresh Approach to the Vegetarian Kitchen – Heidi Swanson
Cooking for Two – Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough
Cooking Free – Carol Fenster, PhD
Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2001
Cookwise – Shirley O. Corriher
Dear Danish Recipes – Michelle Nagle Spencer
Death by Chocolate: The Last Word on a Consuming Passion – Marcel Desaulniers
Eggs, Easels and Epicures – The Mazza Artists
Favorite Brand Name Best Loved Holiday Recipes
Feeding the Flock Favorite Recipes from the Kids of Lambs’ Gate – (community cookbook)
The Florida Cookbook: A Lighter Look at Southern Cooking – Charlotte Balcomb Lane
Food for Friends Homemade Gifts for Every Season – Sally Pasley Vargas
Food Matters – Mark Bittman
Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker – Robin Robertson
The Gardeners’ Community Cookbook - Victoria Wise
The George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine Cookbook - George Foreman and Connie Merydith
The Great American Cookbook - International Culinary Society
The Great American Cookie Coobook
Healthy Cooking for Two (Or Just You) – Frances Price, RD
How to Eat – Nigella Lawson
The Joy of Cooking 75th Anniversary – Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker
In the Kitchen with Rosie – Rosie Daley
The Inn at Little Washington Cookbook: A Consuming Passion – Patrick O’Connell
Katie Brown Engertains 16 Menus, 16 Occasions, 16 Tables – Katie Brown
Lanc. Co. Amish Cookbook
The Low Carb Comfort Food Cookbook – Michael Eades, M.D.; Mary Dan Eades, M.D.; Ursula Solo
The Melting Pot Cuisine – Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church
Macaroni & Cheese: 125 Recipes, from Simple to Sublime – Joan Schwartz
The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Everyday – Martha Stewart
The New Book of Whole Grains – Marlene Anne Bumgarner
The New Laurel’s Kitchen – Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, and Brian Ruppenthal
New Thai Cuisine – Nathan Hyam
The New Whole Grains Cookbook – Robin Ashell
Noodle – Terry Durack
Nourishing Traditions – Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, Ph.D
Old Fashioned Berry & Cherry Recipes with Historical Notes – Bear Wallow Books
Old Fashioned Herb Recipes – Bear Wallow Books
Old Fashioned Honey, Maple Syrup, Sorghum Recipes – Bear Wallow Books
Old Fashioned Strawberry Recipes with Historic Notes – Bear Wallow Books
The Olives Table – Todd English and Sally Sampson
On Campus Cookbook - Mollie Fitzgerald
One Dish Meals the Easy Way – Reader’s Digest
One Potato Two Potato – Roy Finamore with Molly Stevens
The Pie and Pastry Bible – Rose Levy Beranbaum
Pizza Focaccia, Flat and Filled Breads from Your Bread Machine Perfect Every Time – Lora Brody
Puerto Rican Cookery – Carmen Aboy Valldejuli
Puerto Rican Cuisine in America Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes – Oswald Rivera
Simply Elegant Quick Recipes for Stylish Entertaining – Food and Wine Books
Slow Cooker, Casseroles, and One-Dish Meals
Small Batch Baking – Debby Maugans Nakos
Super Natural Cooking – Heidi Swanson
Swedish Cooking
Sweet Seasons Fabulous Restaurant Desserts Made Simple – Richard Leach
A Taste of Puerto Rico – Yvonne Ortiz
The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook - Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufman
The Ultimate Soup Bible – Anne Sheasby
The Val-Kill Cook Book – Eleanor R. Seagraves
Vegetables Every Day – Jack Bishop
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone – Deborah Madison
Verdura Vegetables Italian Style – Viana La Place
What’s Cooking Indian – Shehzad Husain
Whole Grains Every Day Every Way – Lorna Sass
Vintage Cookbooks
250 Ways to Make Candy (alternate title, The Candy Book) (1949) – Culinary Art Institute
The American Peoples Cookbook (1956) – Culinary Arts Institute
Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook (facsimile of 1953 version) – Better Homes and Gardens
Betty Crocker’s Hamburger Cookbook (1973)
Casserole Cookery (1951) – Marian and Nino Tracy
The Chocolate Cookbook (1955) – Culinary Arts Institute
Cooking the Jewish Way (1961) – Ann Wald
The Cooking of Japan (1969) – Rafael Steinberg
Cooking With Soup (1968)
Dinner’s Ready Mom (1986) – Helen Gustafson
Betty Crocker’s Family Dinners in a Hurry (1970)
The Farmer’s Guide Cook Book (1927) – The Farmer’s Guide
Fresh From France: Vegetable Creations (1987) – Faye Levy
The Hood Basic Cook Book (1949) – Marjorie Heseltin and Ula M. Dow
The Indiana Farmer’s Guide New Cook Book (1945) – The Farmer’s Guide
The International Jewish Cook Book (1972) – Nina Froud
The June Platt Cook Book (1958) – June Platt
Loyalty Cook Book (1953) – Native Daughters of the Golden West, as compiled by Willow Borba
Mike Roy’s Crock Cookery (1975) - Mike Roy
The Modern Family Cook Book (1958) – Meta Given
Mrs. Rorer’s Cook Book (1886) – Sarah Tyson Rorer
New England Cook Book (1936) – Culinary Arts Press
The New York Times Cook Book (1961) – Craig Claiborne
The New York Times Natural Foods Cookbook (1972) – Joan Hewitt
Northern Italian Cooking (1979) – Francesco Ghedini
The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes (1936) – Culinary Arts Press
Rumford Complete Cook Book (1927) – Lily Haxworth Wallace
The Settlement Cookbook (1931) – Mrs Simon Kander
Women’s Home Companion Cook Book (1946)
Reference Books
Cheese Primer – Steven Jenkins
Cook’s Book of Useful Information – John C. Lawrence
Food in History – Reay Tannahill
The Food Substitutions Bible – David Joachim
How to Break an Egg
On Food and Cooking The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Revised Edition) – Harold McGee
Sauces - James Peterson
Windows on the World Complete Wine Course 2006 Edition – Kevin Zraly
Wine for Dummies – Ed McCarthy and Mary Ewing-Mulligan
Nutrition Books
Eat Fat, Lose Fat – Dr. Mary Enig and Sally Fallon
The Mediterranean Diet – Marissa Cloutier, M.S., R.D.; and Eve Adamson
The New Glucose Revolution – Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D.; Thomas M.S. Wolever, M.D, Ph.D; Kaye Foster-Powell, M. Nutr. & Diet.; Stephen Colagiuri, M.D.
SuperFoods: Fourteen Foods that will Change Your Life – Steven G. Pratt, M.d., and Kathy Matthews
Superfoods HealthStyle - Steven G. Pratt, M.D., and Kathy Matthews
SuperFoods Rx Diet – Wendy Bazilian DrPH, MA, RD; Steven Pratt M.D.; and Kathy Matthews
SuperHealth - Steven Pratt M.D.