Books on Food

I have a bookrack next to my bed that houses my modest collection of cookbooks/food memoirs. Ahem...105 when I last counted them. Each time I order a new one I am asked why do you need so many cookbooks/food memoirs?

Call it a fetish, weakness or whatever...psychological disorder, anyone?

But the truth is that there are so many lovely talented people in the world each opening up their hearts and kitchens to me and there is so much to learn from them; unfamiliar cuisines, ingredients, stories behind each of their recipes, cooking techniques, writing styles plus all of them make great bedtime reading.

To my credit, I try and use them all. And trust me I DO cook a lot:)

I can’t recall the exact moment when I fell in love with the idea of spending my entire life (and money:)) with cookbooks/food memoirs but I clearly remember flipping through my mum’s very fancy cake book each day after school (it is important that I mention that we NEVER baked anything from there for it had the most complicated five tier wedding cakes) and copying recipes from the food sections of the magazines that she would rent in her diary that she still maintains.

Presenting to you my lovely readers, my precious cookbook/food memoir collection (In alphabetical order).

I am aware that just writing down the names of these books here really doesn't tell you what each one means to me and  has given me but I promise to write about each one of them in detail in the future. And in the meantime,if you have any questions regarding any specific book, just leave me a comment and I will be more than happy to answer it.


Update: Little notes on how these books have made my life more scrumptious here

1.  100 weeknight curries by Madhur Jaffery
2. 50 great curries of India by Camellia Punjabi
3. 500 best ever recipes CHOCOLATE
4. A homemade life by Molly Wizenberg
5. A Tiger in the Kitchen by Cheryl Lu Lien Tan
6. Around my French Table by Dorie Greenspan
7. Baking by Dorie Greenspan
8. Bill's Everyday Asian by Bill Granger
9. Bong Mom’s Cookbook by Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta
10. Booze Cakes: Confections Spiked with Spirits, Wine, and Beer by Krystina Castella and Terry Lee Stone
11. Chicken (Trident Press International)
12. Chocolat by Eric Lanlard
13. Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
14. Cocktails (Rebo Publishers)
15. Comfort food fix by Krieger
16. Comfort me with apples by Ruth Reichl
17. Cooking for Gracie by Keith Dixon
18. Cooking with Coco by Anna Del Conte
19. Cooking the Punjabi Way by Aroona Reejhsinghani
20. Cupcakes (PR Books Limited)
21. Cupcakes and Muffins by Ann Nicol
22. Dearie: The remarkable life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz
23. Desserts in Jars by Olmason
24. Drink by Tom Hickman
25. Eat my globe: : One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything by Simon Majumdar
26. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
27. Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices by Chitrita Banerji
28. Everyone Can Cook by Vikas Khanna
29. Feast by Nigella Lawson
30. For you mom, finally by Ruth Reichl
31. Forever summer by Nigella Lawson
32. Garlic and sapphires by Ruth Reichl
33. Good Day for a Picnic: Simple Food That Travels Well by Jeremy Jackson
34. Hajra’s recipes of life, for life by Hajra Mohammed
35. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes by Maya     Angelou
36. Highway on my Plate by Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma
37. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
38. How to be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
39. How to Eat by Nigella Lawson
40. Humble Pie by Gordon Ramsay
41. In my mother’s kitchen: Writers on Love, Cooking and Family (Chamberlain Bros.)
42. India by Pushpesh Pant
43. India with Sanjeev Bhaskar by Sanjeev Bhaskar and Deep Sehgal
44. Indian Flavors by Marut Sikka
45. Italian Khana by Ritu Dalmia
46. Julia's kitchen wisdom by Julia Child
47. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell
48. Kashmiri Cuisine Through The Ages by Sarla Razdan
49. Khanna Sutra by Vikas Khanna
50. Kitchen by Nigella Lawson
51. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
52. Man with a Pan by John Donohue
53. Mastering the art of French cooking by Julia Child
54. Miss Dahl’s voluptuous delights by Sophie Dahl
55. Modern spice by Monica Bhinde
56. My life from scratch by Gesine Bullock-Prado
57. My Life in France  by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
58. My Paris Kitchen by David Lebovitz
59. New Concise Larousse Gastronomique by Larousse
60. Nigella bites by Nigella Lawson
61. Nigella Christmas by Nigella Lawson
62. Nigella Express by by Nigella Lawson
63. Nigellissima by Nigella Lawson
64. Ottolenghi: The Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
65. Peace Meals by Anna Badkhen
66. Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London's Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin
67. Recipes and Dreams from an Italian life by Tessa Kiros
68. River Cottage Veg Everyday by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall  
69. Seoultown Kitchen: Korean Pub Grub to Share with Family and Friends by Debbie Lee,Quentin Bacon
70. Shark' S Fin and Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop
71. Simply Samia by Samia Ahmed
72. Smoothies, shakes and frappes by sally Ann Berk
73. Stuffed: An Insider's Look at Who's (Really) Making America Fat and How the Food Industry Can Fix It by Hank Cardello and Doug Garr
74. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table) by Ruth Reichl
75. The Best Little Marinades Cookbook (Best Little Cookbooks) by Karen Adler
76. The Calcutta Kitchen by Simon Parkes, Udit Sarkhel and Jason Lowe
77. The Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White
78. The East Indian Kitchen by Michael Swamy
79. The Encylopedia of  sandwiches:  Recipes, History, and Trivia for Everything Between Sliced Bread  by Susan Russo 
80. The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit
81. The Food Trail of Punjab by Yashbir Sharma
82. The F-Word by Mita Kapur
83. The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher
84. The Gastronomy of Marriage by Michelle Maisto
85. The Joy of Eating: The Virago Book of Food by Jill Foulston
86. The Language of Baklava by Diana Abu Jaber
87. The Mainland China Cookbook by Anjan Chatterjee
88. The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
89. The Mezze cookbook by Maria Khalife
90. The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden
91. The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
92. The Press Club by George Calombaris
93. The Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food [Hardcover] by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
94. The Silver Spoon (Cooking) by Phaidon
95. The Suriani Kitchen by Lathika George
96. The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
97. The Ultimate Low-fat Indian Cookbook: The Best-ever Step-by-step Collection of Over 150 Authentic, Delicious Low-fat Recipes for Healthy Eating By Shehzad Husain and Manisha Kanani
98. The sharper your knife, the less you cry by Kathleen Flinn
99. Toast by Nigel Slater
100. Travelling Diva by Ritu Dalmia
101. Vietnamese kitchen by Bobby Chinn
102. What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained by Robert L. Wolke
103. Will Write for Food by Dianne Jacob
104. World Vegetarian by Madhur Jaffrey
105. Yes Chef by Marcus Samuelsson