Books like The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American

This is not the first time I have read this book. This is also not the first time that I have loved every minute of it.The backstory: My mom and I were discussing an Italian sausage she used to make when I was younger. (I may be a vegetarian - have been for a couple of years now - but I have always been a fan of this particular recipe.) She told me that it was from one of his cookbooks - and later that day bought this one and the Italian one (where the recipe was actually from). The package arrived just a few days later. I immediately opened the package - and once I had the book in my hands, I couldn't help but sit down and re-read this book. A few pages in, I sort of spaced out a little and remembered the first time I had read it, sitting on the floor in front of our many bookshelves that were stuffed with books in our old house. It was a good memory. I read about a third of the way through before someone knocked on the door (I'm sure I would have finished the entire thing if I hadn't had that distraction) and didn't get the chance to pick it up again until the day before yesterday. I sat down and didn't get back up until I was done.I guess the point of my story is that it's a really good book and if you haven't sat down and read any of his books, you definitely need to do so. I am a huge fan of cookbooks (being that I'm a purveyor of delectable fare and pulchritudinous confections, a chef without a kitchen) and if you are only using cookbooks for the recipes they contain, you are truly missing out. You can learn so much from them, so much more than just a good recipe that you remember many years later.