With as much food/cooking talk as there is here, I can't be the only person who digs reading cookbooks...
Tonight's dinner came mostly from Michael Ruhlman's "Twenty" (specifically, the Butterflied Chicken with Lemon-Tarragon Butter Baste), which was amazing. It made me wonder if there are other cookbooks/authors I should be looking for. He's kind of one of my favorites (my bacon and bratwurst recipes come from Charcuterie). I like the way he approaches cooking in general, trying to make it a very accessible thing, but also emphasizing the importance of cooking and eating good food . "Twenty" has a lot of great recipes, but like most of his stuff, it seems to aim to be a cookbook that teaches you how to cook in the absence of a specific recipe (like his book "Ratio"), instead of just teaching you recipes.
I have a bazillion cookbooks, but seem that I keep coming back to the same 5 or 6 again and again. Anyone else have favorite/recommended cookbooks?