Essential Cook Books

This catalogue page has a few great cookbooks to enhance your cooking and make your time spent cooking in your kitchen, or outdoors, more enjoyable. Our research staff at Lübecks Bookstore have selected several essential cookbooks for you. Besides having great easy-to-follow recipes, some of these books are great how to cookbooks. With clearly written text and ample photographs, detailed illustrations, and professional tips, these cookbooks explain each step so that you can quickly prepare hearty, flavorful, and heathful meals. These bookbook recipes include vegetarian meals, cooking pasta and noodles, main dishes, meat dishes, side dishes, breads, soups, hearty chowders, and desserts.
Several bread machine cookbooks have excellent bread recipes and explain techniques for making great tasting bread easily and quickly.
And for todays busy cooks, several good cookbooks are included for using tooster ovens and crock pots.
In addition several cookbooks include some really good garlic recipes and garlic lore.
We have tried to give you a variety of useful cookbooks, but everyone has their own needs. Take a look, perhaps something will be of interest.
All of these cookbooks are recommended for your consideration.
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Essential CookBooks

• On Cooking: Techniques from Expert Chefs
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-Sarah R. Labensky, et al / Hardcover 1150 pages, 2nd Edition / Published July 1998
This large well written cookbook teaches detailed how-to-cook fundamentals. This cooking pro clearly explain techniques, professional tips, and of course presents great recipes. More than 1400 lavish photographs and 750 healthful recipes.


• The New Making of a Cook: The Art, Techniques, and Science of Good Cooking
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-Madeleine Kamman, Pamela Hoenig (Editor)/ Hardcover / Published Novermber 1997
A good cook must understand food and food chemistry and follow good recipes. This cookbook explains the hows and whys of cooking techniques used in todays's home kitchens and professional kitchens. Includes more than 400 recipes and 150 illustrations.
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• What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained
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-Robert L. Wolke / Hardcover 350 pages / Published May 2002
A longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food 101, the author explains with technical illustrations the answers to a compendium of questions on food chemistry. For example, is there really a difference between common table salt and sea salt? How is sugar made? Should cooks avoid aluminum pans? Interspersed throughout Wolke's accessible and humorous answers to these and other mysteries are recipes demonstrating scientific principles. With its zest for the truth, this book will help cooks learn how to make more intelligent choices.
With technical illustrations, tips, and explainations, the book shows that learning the whys and hows of cooking can help cooks enjoy the culinary process almost as much as its results.
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• Cookwise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking
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-Shirley O. Corriher / Hardcover 524 pages / Published September 1997
This book is more than just a goodbook with great recipes. The author explains how cooking techniques are supposed to work and why the prepared food doesn't always come out as planned. Plus over 350 really great recipes, illustrations, and color photos.
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• Better Homes and Gardens's New Cookbook
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-Jennifer D. Darling, Editor / Hardcover 540 pages, 3 ring binding / Published August 1986
This is a long time sourcebook for everthing dealing with cooking at home. Covers cooking basics, canning, freezing, breads, cakes, meat, fish, soups, stews, and more.
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• 75 Years of All-Time Favorites: Main Dishes, Side Dishes, Breads, and Desserts
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-Better Homes & Gardens Editors / Harcover 320 pages / Published January 1997
This definitive collection of 230 time-tested, tasty, nutritional, and favorite recipes will be welcomed in any kitchen library. Includes more than 65 photos, 40 illustrations, nutritional analyses, and historical anedotes.
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• The Essentials of Food Safety and Sanitation
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- (3rd Edition) (Paperback) by David R. McSwane, Nancy R. Rue, Richard Linton, Anna Graf Willliams, David McSwane, Nancy Rue
Paperback 440 pages, 3rd Edition / Published February 2002
This comprehensive book is a comprehensive, easy-to-understand guide to help food workers produce safe food. Designed to serve as a textbook and workplace reference for the essentials of safe food handling procedures.
Coverage includes food safety and sanitation management, factors that affect foodborne illness, environmental sanitation, accident prevention, and food safety regulations. Includes chapter objectives and summaries, case studies, quizes, and discussion questions. This edition includes new vignettes and new references, including web sites.
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• Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Deborah Madison / Hardcover 544 pages / Published November 1997
This cookbook is well written and comprehensive. The more than 800 clear and easily followed recipes are both tasty and appealing. One 124 page chapter is loaded with culinary revelations on selecting and preparing vegetables. The recipes in this book will appeal to both true vegetarians and meat-eaters.
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• America: The Vegetarian Table
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-Deborah Madison, Deborah Jones (Photographer) / Hardcover / October 1996
Features over 75 delicous and tasty meals for vegetarians. These recipes include soups, salads, main meals and deserts. Includes 29 full-color photographs.
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• Perfect Chichen Dishes (Perfect Cookbooks)
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-Anne Willan / Paperback 127 pages / Published March 1997
This cookbook features mouth watering chichen dish recipes from around the world. Two of these recipes featured are Yorkshire chicken with stuffed prunes, and Chicken pot pie with herb crust. Includes full color photos of the completed delicious chichen dishes.
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• The 15 Minute Chicken Cookbook
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-Paulette Michell / Hardcover 192 pages / Published June 1997
One hundred delicious and easy to cook chicken breast recipes are featured in this popular cookbook. These recipes will provide tasty dishes that are low in fat, easy to prepare and are adaptable to any cuisine.
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• Garlic, Garlic, Garlic: Exceptional Recipes For the World's Most Indispensible Ingredient
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-Linda Griffith, Fred Griffith / Paperback 384 pages / Published October 1998
This five star cookbook is jamed packed with garlic recipes and garlic lore. Covers 50 varieties of garlic. Nicely illustrated.
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• The 15 Minute Vegetarian Gourmet
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-Paulette, Mary Gamty, Barbara Giore/ Paperback / Published April 1992
This cookbook features delicious and healthful vegetarian cooking that is simple to prepare. With over 100 recipes, any of which can be prepared within 15 minutes. Pasta with Szechwan Peanut Dressing and Vegetable Curry and Mixed Fruit Chutney are two.
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The Cooking Experience With Muffins and Quick Breads
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-Marion P. Thomas, Steve W. Polite / Paperback / Published June 1997
These recipes can be completed without a full kitchen. All one needs is this book, the ingredients, a toaster oven, electric frying pan, or a hotplate. Muffins, scones, pancakes and breadsticks can be produced in short order.
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• The Bread Machine Cookbook (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)
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-Donna R. German / Paperback 176 pages / Published May 1991
This is an excellent cookbook for those of us who make our bread the easy way. The instructions are easy to follow, and the recipes make really good tasty bread.
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• Joy of Cooking: Christmas Cookies
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-Irma S. Rombauer, Marion R. Becker, Ethan Becker
Hardcover 128 pages / Published November 1996
What's Christmas without the smell of freshly baked cookies? This great recipe book has 70 favorites, including Iced Suger cookies and Gingerbread people.
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• The Back-Country Kitchen: Camp Cooking for Canoeists, Hikers, and Anglers
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-Teresa Marrone / Paperback 208 pages / Published April 1996
This cookbook has 150 tested recipes for camp breads, hearty chowders, and one-pot meals. This book has a special chapter on preparing fish and game at camp. This book is great for hunters also.
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• Perfect Meat Dishes (Perfect Cookbooks)
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-Anne Willan / Paperback 127 pages / Published March 1997
This cookbook features international meat dishes recipes. These recipes include quick weekday recipes and slow-cooked soups and tasty stews.
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• Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking
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-William W. Weaver, Jerry Orabunna (Photographer) Hardcover / Published September 1993
This cookbook features 100 authentic delicious and healthy recipes. There are recipes for breads, soups, meat dishes, vegetables, and desserts such as Hickory Nut Dumplings served with stewed peaches.
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• Mable Hoffman's Crockery Cookery
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-Mable Hoffman / Paperback 249 pages / Published October 1995
This 20 year classic has been updated with 77 totally new and delicious recipes. From soups to desserts to bread making, slow crockery cooking is ideal for todays busy cooks. Full color photos.
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• Healthy Crockery Cookery ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-Mable Hoffman / Paperback 256 pages, 1st Edition / Published May 1998
This winning cookbook has 150 all new recipes that utilize the slow cooking methad of the classic crockpot to creat low-fat, low-calorie, high-flavor meals that the whole family will enjoy. Perfect for the working Mom who wants to come home to a tasty healthful home-cooked meal.
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• Better Homes & Gardens Crockery Cookbook ~Usually Ships in 2-3 Days
-Lisa L. Mannes, Editor / Hardcover 144 pages, Spiral Edition / Published September 1994
An excellent cookbook with more than 100 tasty recipes tested and approved by the Better Homes & Gardens kitchens.
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The Toaster Oven Cookbook ~Usually Ships in 24 Hours
-David Diresta, Joanne Foran / Paperback, 160 pages / Published September 1995
Ever wish you could use that tooster oven for cooking part of your dinner. This book will show you how.
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• The German Cookbook: A Complete Guide to Mastering Authentic German Cooking
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-Mimi Sheraton / Hardcover / Published June 1980
This is one of the best German Cookbooks that is written in English presently available. It is clearly written and has many of our favorite recipes included. Some of yours perhaps too or maybe one that may become one of your favorites.
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• The Joy of Pickling: 200 Flavor-Packed Recipes for All Kinds of Produce from Garden or Market
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-Linda Ziedrich / Paperback 368 pages
Published August 1998
This is a very good book on pickling. Besides mouth-watering recipes, this book explains the pickling process, including fresh pickles, fermented pickling, and low-temperature pasturization. An excellent book and at a very good price.
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