Cookbook aesthetic

The worn pages of a cookbook have a unique ability to drill into a place where food memory mixes with love and loss. As our kitchen adventures increasingly get recorded in sleek digital files or even the fleeting history of a recipe search, beat-up cookbooks become more valuable, both personally and historically. (Photo: Amber Fouts for The New York Times)

The owner of San Francisco bookstore Omnivore Books gives us the 10 cookbooks every home cook needs. From Julia Child to Alice Waters and beyond, these books are tried-and-true favorites, and will change the way you cook. Are they on your shelves already?

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I listed here ten of my favourite cookbooks for Italian food lovers. It is not a comprehensive list, you'll find many more books browsing through the blog, but this is a steady starting point.

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