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Of course I also like my own cookbook/memoir about growing up Pennsylvania Dutch Fry Bacon. Add Onions.

The Williamsburg Cookbook: Traditional and Contemporary Recipes
Favorite Meals from Williamsburg

(not the new one, but the one published in 1985)."
. It's slightly irreverent at times, but it has really helpful instructions for technique. For example, with gougere, it tells you exactly what to look for in the pot before taking the dish off the heat. In another set of instructions, for Vichy carrots, it says "Do not walk away from the stove during this phase. I am not kidding. Stay right there." This book helped me make sense of dishes that seemed impossible in other French cookbooks.


Mama Susan's Dixie Cooking is another one I like. She lived in my mother's town. I never met her. But my mother handed out her cookbooks to everyone in my family. And there are some good recipes in there.
I just like to sit and read cookbooks also. I think that started with The New York Times Heritage Cook Book. Not sure I have ever cooked anything from this book but I sure do love looking at the recipes.


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(not the new one, but the one published in 1985).