My Favourite Cookbooks

The local literary world is buzzing about "Ottawa Cooks", a cookbook featuring recipes from some of the city's best chefs. While I usually rely on the Internet when it comes to finding recipes, there's something about cookbooks that still appeals to me. Here are some of my favourites:

	Cooking for Geeks My love for this cookbook can be found throughout this blog, and for good reason, as it reads less like a cookbook and more like an interesting textbook. It's the perfect book for people who consider the kitchen their personal laboratory and should be required reading for anyone teaching an elementary or high school Home Ec class.
	DC Super Heroes Super Healthy Cookbook This is the first cookbook I've ever followed a recipe from. Given how popular superheroes are these days (in spite of things like "Batman vs. Superman", ironically enough), it's a bit surprising it is still out of print.
	The 4-Hour Chef For people who want to do things better, and do it in as short a time possible, look no further than this book, not surprisingly from the author of "The 4-Hour Workweek".
	The Joy of Cooking You could get by with just this cookbook for the rest of your life and be happy with your results. A must-have for a cook of any skill level, whether you're a millennial, a baby boomer, or anyone in between.
	The Laws of Cooking A protege of the mad scientist of the cooking world Alton Brown, Justin Warner breaks down cooking into combinations based on familiar foods (ie. bitter+fat+sweet=the Law of Coffer, Cream, and Sugar), that teach why certain flavors work better than others, with recipes that force you out of your cooking comfort zone whether you like to or not.