[luckycharms810]

Listing out a few of my go tos!

- Every grain of rice ( Fuschia Dunlop ) is close to what I’d consider a perfect cookbook.

- Franklin BBQ ( Aaron Franklin ) is a definitive guide to how to use an offset smoker. I’ve read through portions over and over again - it’s only got about 10 recipes.

- My two south’s ( Asha Gomez ) - A wonderful collection of recipes inspired by South India, the south.

A good cook book will usually have a section that introduces new ingredients, tells you how to source them, introduces new techniques or methods, and also introduce some shorter recipes that can be used as dependencies for others. At the end of the day - you want good building blocks.

[ghaff]

I have Dunlop's Hunan and Szechuan books which I really like, especially the latter. The one caveat I have is that, if you don't live somewhere with a good Oriental supermarket, you're probably going to be frustrated.