Which is your favorite cookbook?

The trusty old Womens Weekly cookbook from back in the 1970's.

Forks knives cookbooks 

Talk About Good, I and II from the Junior League of Lafayette, LA. Next comes Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything.

I only eat rice and eggs :((((((((((

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When I grew up the internet was still only for selling secrets to the Russians and telling fart jokes between Army bases, and standing around on your cellphone made you a douchebag; We had exactly one cookbook in my house. It was some generic Betty Crocker deal that probably was on sale by mail order through the Penny Saver magazine.

It had chapters by type of food like bread, meat, casserole, pie, etc. I used it the same way I use recipes now, to find a footing on the science I'm working with. Maybe X bread uses baking soda and baking powder. Another only uses soda. One uses none but cream of tartar. And in the same way you might walk in on a strange tribe and start to figure out a Muslim practices Islam in Jerusalem while wishing a salaam, you can start to piece together the roots of the language.

The Joy of Cooking

 Betty Crocker cookbook.

Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course.  It explains more than just showing recipes and went with her TV series that aimed to actually show people how to cook when they knew nothing.  So this was really basic stuff but people loved it because this is food anyone can make rather than elaborate cheffy food.  Delia is a legend in the UK because of this.  Of course if you aren't British, you probably haven't heard of her.

The Yummly app.