10 cookbooks you just NEED to have in your kitchen! 📖
Whether it’s an informational book or a recipe book, cookbooks are an essential part of cooking and increasing your knowledge about the culinary world is a must. They help you to discover recipes (not just Maltese ones!) and different culinary cultures around the world. 🌍
So if you’re looking for some cookbooks to add to your collection, here’s a list of some of our favourite ones! 😍
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
The ultimate classic by none other than Julia Child. This cookbook includes over 500 recipes alongside some illustrations to show you how it’s done - unmissable! 👌
Flavour
The what, the how, the why - it’s all in there. Flavour shows you how to take the simplest food and make it exceptional. Anything by Yotam Ottolenghi is awesome, really. 🤩
Wings and Things: Lip-smacking Chicken Recipes
Winner, winner, chicken dinner! Wings and Things includes all things chicken, from starters, to mains, sharing platters and even things to go with chicken (like cocktails, sauces, and sides). Perfect for any chicken lover! 🍗
Comfort Mob
This one has to be one of my favourite cookbooks of all time. Even just browsing through it is a feast for the eyes. Comfort Mob is all about the ultimate comfort food recipes. While we’re mentioning MOB Kitchen, all of their cookbooks are a must-have, if I’m being honest. 🤷
Momofuku: A Cookbook
Momofuku is an award-winning chain of restaurants by Chef David Chang. Chef Chang has revolutionised Asian cooking in the US and luckily for us, he shares some of his incredible recipes in this cookbook! 🍜
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
I have mentioned Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat multiple times on my journey with FoodBlog, and I will probably never stop mentioning it. Samin Nosrat is a culinary genius! She takes these four elements and shows us how important they are in balancing out flavours and making something ordinary seem extraordinary. 🌟
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
Cooking is all about bringing out the best flavour even from the simplest of ingredients, and that, my foodie friends, can be done through science. The Food Lab explores how interactions between molecules, heat and energy can create amazing food. You cannot argue with science, so I think this is the ultimate must-have for every home cook and chef! 🧪
L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
I discovered Chef Roy Choi, founder of the Kogi food trucks, through The Chef Show on Netflix. From then on, he became one of my favourite chefs ever. In his cookbook, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food, he takes us through Los Angeles through food, including over 80 of his recipes! 😋
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes and Stories
One of the UK’s kitchen queens, Nigella Lawson, puts the recipes from her cooking show into this amazing cookbook. She was already famous for her food, but then she became even more famous after her mispronunciation of the word ‘microwave’. My-cro-weiv or mih-cro-wah-vey, we love Nigella Lawson and her cooking anyway. 🤤
Friends TV Show Bonus: Friends: The Official Cookbook
If you love Friends, this needs to be in your kitchen, even if you don’t know how to cook. Friends: The Official Cookbook has any food item related to the TV show that you can think of: The Joey Special (two pizzas!), Noodle Soup, Rachel’s Trifle, The Moist Maker, Joey’s Meatball Sub, and even a list of drinks, including one named Miss Chanandler Bong! 🤭
I absolutely love buying cookbooks. I find them far better and easier to use than an online version. Plus, they’re a great decoration for your kitchen! Do you have any favourite cookbooks? Share your top ones in the comments! 👇
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