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Grocery Bag FAQ: What’s your favourite cookbook?

Friday, 1 March 2013 | Tags: , , , , , ,
By: Anna & Kristina

Many of you have asked us this question over the years since we started filming Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag. Here are our recommendations for cookbooks that'll never let you down!

 

My Father’s Daughter

by Gwyneth Paltrow

We have to hand it to Gwyneth. She’s definitely a triple threat! This is not just a cookbook that’s endorsed by a celebrity, it’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s personal collection of family favourites. We definitely think My Father’s Daughter is worth your money.

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Available in Canada at:

Chapters-Indigo
Amazon.ca

Available in the USA at:

Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble 

  

 

 

The Joy of Cooking (75th Anniversary Edition)

By Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker

Joy of Cooking is a must-have cookbook and reference guide for anyone who cooks. If you already have an earlier edition, you may want to stick with it. But if you don’t have Joy of Cooking yet, you should!

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Available in Canada at:

Chapters-Indigo
Amazon.ca

 

Available in the USA at:

Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble

  

 

Cook with Jamie

by Jamie Oliver

Cook With Jamie unquestionably gets our A&K Stamp of Approval. Jamie’s cooking and food philosophies, as well as his instructional lessons, make this book a definite buy for a wide range of skill levels. 

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Available in Canada at:

Amazon.ca Buy from Amazon.ca
Chapters-Indigo

Available in the USA at: 

Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble

 

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics

by Ina Garten

This is one cookbook we strongly recommend for beginners and advanced cooks alike. We are in love with this book!

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Available in Canada at:

Chapters-Indigo 
Amazon.ca

Available in the USA at:

Amazon.com 
Barnes & Noble

 

 

Plus, another Barefoot Contessa cookbook is

our Favourite Product for March!

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  • GTA_John

    But … but … but what about “Bon Appetite, Y’All”?

    • annaandkristina

      Oh it’s a good one too, for sure! The original question we get asked all the time is what ONE cookbook do you recommend. Honestly, we had a hard time narrowing it down to just four. Bon Appetit, Y’all is definitely on our full A&K-approved cookbook list http://www.annaandkristina.com/ak-approved-cookbooks/

  • http://twitter.com/nicolb Nicolb

    For the visual learners, I’ve found Jane Hornby’s What To Cook and How To Cook It is super useful: http://www.amazon.com/What-Cook-How-Jane-Hornby/dp/0714859583

    • annaandkristina

      Thanks for the tip, Nicolb!

  • http://twitter.com/ChefMikedotca Chef Mike Benninger

    You can’t go wrong with any of those, even though I found Paltrow’s book a bit fluffy for my personal tastes, but I’m sure it has a huge auduence. My 3 “go to’s” are Jamie Olivers first book, “The Naked Chef”, “The Essential Asian Cookbook” and “The Complete America’s Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook (2001-2010)”. I cook professionally in 80+ different kitchens a year, and thus I need proven, tested recipes, 99% of the time, these 3 books deliver tasty results…

    • annaandkristina

      Thanks for these, Chef Mike Benninger! We’ve had a number of people mention they love the America’s Test Kitchen. And Naked Chef is a classic. We’ll keep an eye out for the Asian one!

      • http://twitter.com/ChefMikedotca Chef Mike Benninger

        I’ll sent you a photo of the cover if you want

  • http://www.facebook.com/karen.bailey.12532 Karen Bailey

    I can’t possibly narrow it down to just one cookbook. Although I don’t have Gwyneth Paltrow’s book, I have the others you mention and they are fantastic. I also bought Ina Gartner’s Foolproof recently and will be trying it soon. Right now, my main go-to books are two by Bonnie Stern: Friday Night Dinners and Essentials of Home Cooking. Everything in these have turned out great for me (such as yummy buckwheat blinis with smoked trout, roast cauliflower with tahina sauce, couscous with dates, and a variation of chicken tagine). Among light cooking books, two favourites are Bonnie Stern’s HeartSmart Cooking for Family and Friends and Rose Reisman’s The Art of Living Well. Although I’ve only tried a few recipes from the latter, it has a honey nut-coated salmon recipe that gets rave reviews from family and friends. Among dessert books, I love The Cake Bible. The one cake I’ve tried, an apricot cake with a decorative sugar-based cage over it, was fabulous (although complicated) and the chapters about ingredients and techniques are really interesting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/slowpoketales Sophie Côté

    La Dolce Vegan! by Sarah Kramer. It saved my life when I switched to a vegan diet. :)

    • http://www.annaandkristina.com/ Anna & Kristina

      Thanks for the recommendation, Sophie!

  • tanya parker

    I have three of the 4 your recommend, with the addition of the rest of Ina’s books! She is most certainly my weekday go to. I also have my mother’s first cookbook she bought when she moved to Canada in 1956, the Purity cookbook. It no longer has a cover, and I have to be gentle with it, but I use it for a lot of my baking.