The Cook's Library is a great resource for Los Angeles, 8373 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA
(323) 655-3141.
Owner Ellen Rose has a list of some of the best cookbooks of 2006:
- What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water, Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers by Andrew Dornenberg and Karen Page
- Culinary Artistry by Andrew Dornenberg and Karen Pag
- Falling Cloudberries; Apples for Jam and Twelve: A Tuscan Cook Book, all by Tessa Kiros
- Sous-Vide by Joan Rocca ($175.00)
- The Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider
- The 150 Best American Recipes: Indispensable Dishes from Legendary Chefs and Undiscovered Cooks by Fran McCullough & Molly Stevens
- Crazy Water Pickled Lemons: Enchanting Dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa by Diane Henry
- Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
- Harlem Really Cooks: The Nouvelle Soul Food of Harlem by Sandra Lawrence
- In Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics by Heston Blumenthal
- Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Chef by Jamie Oliver
- Michael Mina: The Cookbook by Michael Mina
- Soul of a New Cuisine:A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa by Marcus Samuelson
- Happy in the Kitchen: The Craft of Cooking, the Art of Eating by Michel Richard
- How I Learned to Cook: Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs by Kimberly Witherspoon and Peter Meeham
- Life is Meals: Food Lovers Book of Days by James and Kay Salter
- Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate by John Scharffenberger and Robert Steinberg
- Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorrie Greenspan
- Tartine by Elisabeth Prueitt
- At Home with Magnolia: Classic American Recipes from the Owner of Magnolia Bakery by Allysa Torey
- Buttercup Bakes at Home: More Than 75 New Recipes from Manhattan's Premier Bake Shop for Tempting Homemade Sweets by Jennifer Appel
- The New York Times Dessert Cookbook by Florence Fabricant
- The Sweet Life: Desserts from Chanterelle by Kate Zuckerman and Tina Rupp
Music Break: Dancing Drums (More Drums) - Ananda Shankar