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The Cookbook as an Historical Document
The agents of potentially significant social reform, housekeepers created narratives in which they posited themselves as domestic heroes, protagonists full of agency and promise in texts rich with possibility. The producers of cookbooks construct an “identifiable authorial persona” who “approaches the first-person narrator of fiction or autobiography” and, in the process, a new type of literary discourse.<<more<<
How to Cook Everything
by Marc Bittman
Comprehensive, encyclopedic book, gives variations and alterations on most recipes.
Joy of Cooking
by Irma S. Rombauer
Comprehensive, thorough and highly readable.
A New Way to Cook
by Sally Schneider
Advocates the "template way of cooking."
On Cooking
techniques from expert chefs
by Sarah Labensky and Alan Hause
Meant for the student chef, main complaint, no recipes for the cheaper, leaner cuts of beef.
The South Beach Diet
No braised recipes , but quite a few recipes for steamed food.
All About Steam Cooking
by Carol Truax
The Art of Cooking With Steam
by Jacques Maniere translated and interpreted by Stephanie Lyness
The Complete Book of Steam Cookery
by Coralie Castle
Cooking with Steam
by Stephanie Lyness
All About Braising
The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking
by Molly Stevens
The Slow Cooker Ready and Waiting Cookbook
by Rick Rodgers
The Slow Mediteranean Kitchen
by Paula Wolfert
The Clay-Pot Cookbook
by Georgia and Grover Sales