Cookbooks

Here you will find articles on cookbooks, cookbook collections at libraries and cookbook publishers and bookstores.

See also: Cookbook Awards

Awards, Festivals, and Reviews

• Cookbooker
  This blog that allows the public to rate cookbook recipes rounds up the "best cookbooks of 2010" lists and posts them here.
  • The Best Cookbooks of 2010: Web and Print Media
  • Cookbook Stores Pick the Best Cookbooks of 2010
• Festival du Livre Culinaire
  Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, an international award for cookbooks, wine books and cookbook publishers.
• The Guild of Food Writers (UK) Awards
  The British Guild of Food Writers gives several annual cookbook awards. Here is the list of winners.
• International Association of Culinary Professionals
  Formerly the Julia Child Cookbook Awards. Check under "Awards".
• James Beard Foundation: Awards
  A variety of awards in the category of Books, as well as Journalism, Broadcast Media, Chef & Restaurant, Restaurant Design, and Lifetime Achievement.
• New York Times Articles about Cooking and Cookbooks
  Look here for recent reviews.
• NPR: 2010's Best Cookbooks: Real-Life Labors Of Love
  "...what we have here is an overwhelming display of carefully crafted books produced after years of research, recipe-testing and tireless detective work. These labors of love — for the most part written or edited by women — are the work of cooks who not only have a remarkable, monklike ability to delve into their subject precisely and thoroughly, but also have a passion for sharing it."
• Paris Cookbook Fair
  An annual event hosted by Gourmand Magazine.
• Washington Post's top cookbooks of 2010
  23 books selected by Bonnie S. Benwick: "What I look for is a book that passes the Post-it note test (more than five recipes flagged), with reliable information and the potential for perennial use."

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Cookbook Collections

• Beatrice McIntosh Cookery Collection
  The McIntosh Cookery Collection at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst includes nearly 7,500 books, pamphlets, and ephemeral items relating to the history of cookery in New England.
• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
  The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online digital collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the 19th and early 20th century.
• New York Public Library: Culinary History Research Guide
  Included are research guides to their 16,000 volume collection.
• New York University Fales Library Food & Cookery Collection
  The collection of food and cookery materials at the Fales Library documents the evolution of cuisine and food practices in 20th century America, with a particular focus on the food habits and activity of New York City.
• Radcliffe College Culinary Collection
  This special collection of the Schlesinger Library supports research in culinary history, history of domestic life and the role of food in history and culture. It includes books, periodicals, and microforms of rare or fragile items. In addition, the Library has manuscript collections of Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, Alice Bradley, Lydia Child, Corner Book Shop Records (Eleanor Lowenstein), and others concerned with food, cooking, and domestic economy.
• Texas Woman's University Cookbook Collection
  Begun in 1960, the collection contains 15,000 books, 3500 vendors pamphlets, recipe books dating from 1624, conduct manuals, and menus from around the world.
• Virginia Tech: Culinary History Collection
  The Culinary History Collection brings to the public nearly two centuries of historical information about the domestic sciences, including customs, eating behaviors, food choices and habits, social and economic history, and scientific and technological progress. Also offers the Virginia Culinary Thymes newsletter, covering Virginia's culinary history and food culture.

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Bookstores/Publishers

• Books for Cooks
  Thousands of cookbooks, organized into over 140 cooking categories, most (except professional books) at a 10% discount.
• Chronicle Books: Food
  Publisher of simply designed and attractive cookbooks.
• Columbia University Press: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
  Interesting books on the history of food.
• Cookbooks On/Line
  This website provides access to a recipe database as well as information on community cookbooks throughout the United States.
• Hippocrene Books
  Specializes in cooking in foreign countries.
• Jessica's Biscuit Cookbooks (ecookbooks.com)
  Perhaps you have received their catalog in the mail. A selection of deeply discounted featured books and publishers' closeouts.
• Oxmoor House
  Oxmoor House is a part of Southern Progress Corporation (a subsidiary of Time/Warner), and publishes compilations for Southern Living, Cooking Light, Williams-Sonoma, and Weight-Watchers.
• The Taunton Press
  Publisher of Fine Cooking
• Ten Speed Press
  With a long-standing tradition of gorgeous, innovative and distinctive cookbooks, Ten Speed Press has been at the forefront of food trends for more than 30 years, winning a dozen James Beard awards and 4 IACP awards. Now a part of the Crown Publishing Group (Random House).
• Wimmer Community Cookbooks
  Preserving American regional traditions. Buy one of their cookbooks or create your own cookbook!
• WorkMan Publishing: Cooking, Food & Wine
  A medium-sized independent publishing company of award-winning cookbooks that also includes Artisan Books and Timber Press.