Another vote for the Bittman one! I have something of a cookbook problem (I have a few hundred) and this is my absolute go-to. I use it almost every day, I swear. Sometimes just for ideas or techniques: not even following a recipe.
I'm the only person in the world who really dislikes Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. I've never made anything from that book that I find to be interesting or all that good. Nothing really BAD: just everything kind of blah. The recipes also always seem to require hard to find and expensive ingredients. I keep trying to like it, because on polls like this one everyone always says it's their favorite, so there's got to be something to it... but I just don't see it.
I'm the only person in the world who really dislikes Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. I've never made anything from that book that I find to be interesting or all that good. Nothing really BAD: just everything kind of blah. The recipes also always seem to require hard to find and expensive ingredients. I keep trying to like it, because on polls like this one everyone always says it's their favorite, so there's got to be something to it... but I just don't see it.
