What cookbook can you NOT live without?

The Joy of Cooking Irma Rombauer and others

Repertoire de La Cuisine Louis Saulnier

Larousse Gastronomique (new edition is out and to many editors to mention)

The last two are more reference books than cookbook neither has many real recipes.... just guides on what goes in a sauce or a classic entree.

Larousse is like an encyclopedia of cooking.

I also have a recipe book in my head and creating is the true Joy of Cooking.

Also add anything written by Julia Childs.

The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. It has recipes for nearly eveything you can think of, from homemade cheese to wild game. If you found yourself living alone in the wild, this book is all you'd need to survive. It's all there - from building a cabin to catching, killing, cooking and preserving your meat, and growing, harvesting, cooking and preserving every vegetable, fruit, and grain you can think of. It's the best 'cookbook' I've ever seen.

This is not a fair question..

I have lost and or given away many books

But I did find ONE it looked to be junk

just a broken binder with rubber bands holding it together..

Anyhow

it is a 1970 book called

A Collection of America's Favorite Recipes...

by Curtin Publications (NY)

It also looks to be one of the TV promotions because each chapter was doubled paged and had to be separated to actually open the binder...for single loose pages

I rarely use cookbooks!! All my recipes are committed to memory by nearly 50 years experience in the kitchen.

But I surely would hate to loose my Lincoln County Extension Clubs Cookbook!!!

My better houses and backyard Cookbook. you comprehend the pink and white checked e book. I surely have had it for two decades. It changed into my first cookbook i purchased. i love the recipes in it. =0}

While I love gourmet food, I am a working Mom and I can't live without my Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade books. It's all quick, easy, and great tasting. I've had some culinary training and was taught, with regard to prepared foods, if it has the same taste and quality of what you would make from scratch and is cost effective, use it.

Healthy College Cookbook... I think that's what it is called. I bought it when I moved out of my parent's house for the first time post-college. It's got an outstanding mix (complicated, easy, fancy, simple) of recipes.

The one I made for myself; it contains all of my favorite recipes.

I made it because I got tired of trying to remember which book contained a certain recipe.

All of the recipes were typed & saved on the computer. This way I can print a copy for friends and relatives.

I put the recipes in sleeve protectors and categorized them.

My homeade notebook.. but.. probably a reluctant second would be the Betty Crocker cookbook.

I dont use a cookbook. I usually get my recipes straight from my head or I go online.