Alton Brown of Good Eats Picks His Top 5 Cookbooks

Alton Brown picks his fav cookbooks.

Geeks gotta eat.  So…

The short list:

1. The Joy of Cooking

By Irma S. Rombauer
Bobbs-Merrill, 1936

2. The Frugal Gourmet

By Jeff Smith
Morrow, 1984

3. Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

By Marcella Hazan
Knopf, 1992

4. Outlaw Cook

By John Thorne
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992

5. Ratio

By Michael Ruhlman
Scribner, 2009

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