The 10 Best Cookbooks Of All Time?

The Observer Food Monthly in Britain recently published a list of the best 50 cookbooks.

If you could list your best 10 cookbooks what would they be?  What makes a cookbook become a favourite? Are cookbooks subject to fashion trends? Which one has stood the test of time in your heart?

I love reading cookbooks. In fact I often find them far more satisfying than some of the fiction I read.

My top 10 list keeps changing, depending on what I’m needing at the moment. On a busy day I reach for tried and true recipe books. But if I have the luxury of reading about food or planning for a meal I definitely prefer cookbooks that reflect the author, a time and a place, and have a story to tell with recipes included along the way. I like that connectivity because it takes me (and my cooking) somewhere I haven’t been before.

Take a look at the OFM’s top 10 cookbooks - and then check out the ones that made it onto the 50-11 list …

Well, what do you think?

Send in your suggestions if you feel like it, I’d love to know what they are …

13 September 2010/The Kitchen/Food for Thought

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