Check out Fuchsia Dunlop's “Land of Plenty,” hands down the best Sichuan cookbook available.She wrote the NYT piece and has a Hunan cookbook out soon.

didn’t eat at J&L, but we took pictures of a few menus and the visitors helped translate parts of them. I took notes but missed a bunch of stuff. Tried to fill in the gaps using James McCawley’s “Eater's Guide...

) The Greens Cookbook (Deborah Madison) Vietnamese books by Pham and Nguyen My favourite UK cookbooks Anything by Elizabeth David, Nigel Slater or Nigella Lawson Fuchsia Dunlop's oeuvre Ottolenghi, obviously (!) What books did you find...

Thanks Gio for the very helpful answer! Re: cookbooks, the problem is that I have a bunch of cookbooks I have been eyeing recently, including the Diane Kennedy Mexican books, anything by Marcella Hazan and Fuschia Dunlop... I am...