| Type |
| Title | Author | Description |
| Chinese Cuisine | Huang Su-Huei | Published by Wei-Chuan's cookbook. |
| Professional Cooking | Wayne Gisslen | A book used by people studying to be a chef, I think thy use it at CIA (Culinary Institute of America). On the down side that means
the recipes are a bit hard and terse and they tend to make more than you want. But it has a lot of very good materials on the basics. |
| The Chef's Art | Wayne Gisslen | By the same author as above this is intended for more home use. It's a good reference (in my opinion) but the recipes still tend to make more than I want. |
| The Arab Table | May S. Bsisu | Arab and Mediterranean recipes |
| Claire's Corner Copia Cookbook | Claire Criscuolo | Vegetarian recipes |
| Twelve Months of Monastery Soups | Brother Victor-Antoine d-Avila-Latourrette | Collected basic soup recipes, from simple hearty ones to more exotic fair. |
| 125 Best Cheesecake Recipes | George Geary | Various Cheesecakes, including cheesecakes you'd never expect like the savory ones with chipotle or seafood cheesecake |
| Fifty Ways to Cook Most Everything | Andrew Schloss with Ken Bookman | 50 recipes for 50 different types of recipes=2500 short recipes, for covering just about Everything. Need an idea? Need something a little different? It's in there. |
| The Take-Out Menu Cookbook | Carla Snyder and Meredith Deeds | Recipes to reproduce favorite takeout dishes, conveniently organized for 12 food themes. |
| Notes on Cooking | Lauren Braun Costello & Russell Reich | A short guide to an essential Craft, pithy statements on the philosophy of cooking. |
| Sheila Lukins' All Around the World Cookbook | Sheila Lukins | Full of info about different cuisines, as well as recipes |
| The Fanny Farmer Cookbook | latest edition by Marian Cunningham, Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher. | An old standby for American cooking |