Good Cookbooks/Recipe Books/Books about Food

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I tend to love italian recipes. I ran a search on Amazon and 1000 Italian Recipes appears to be a good book for Italian food at first glance. Anyone with any experience with it?

1000 Italian Recipes

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Nope. My recs for Italian food are the Splendid Table, mentioned before, and Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Italian Cooking

Both cookbooks are really well done. Lots of great recipes, and lots of useful essays/explanations too.