The Williams-Sonoma Cookbook: The Essential Recipe Collection for Today's Home Cook

by Williams-Sonoma

Celebrate the pleasures of cooking in all its forms with more than 370 of the best recipes and 200 photographs from the top-selling Williams-Sonoma Collection--the ultimate cookbook for today's home cook.

Cooking today is multidimensional: it's about creating soul-warming comfort food for friends and family; making healthy, flavorful meals in a limited amount of time; inviting the flavors of ethnic cuisines into our kitchens; and preparing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416575928
• ISBN13: 9781416575924
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 8.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Not very useful

I love cookbooks, I think Wiliams Sonoma have items that are visually appealing. I was very disappointed in this book, the recipes are a bit difficult and in my opinion not that appetizing. I also noticed that there are a LOT of recipes that require italian flat leaf parsley, I like parsley but not in everything. The book is nice looking so I will use it as a decoration on my counter, as I doubt I will use it to cook with.

Love this book!

As some other people said, I like that the ingredients are not hard to find, (because who wants to be stuck with all kinds of expensive rondom ingredients you never will use again!), and that it gives you the kind of tips that if you are not so familiar with cooking, are extremely important tips to know! Everything I have made tastes amazin, the only issue I have is that I think some of the food in the pictures have had little enhancements made in preproduction to make it look slightly shinier and browner, if its a baked good, or crispier and more colorful if it is regualar food, because I just can't seem to get my finished product to look exactly as it does in the pics,... anyway they taste amazing, and the book is easy to navigate, and has LOTS of pictures, so thats what matters most to me!

So many recipes!

This book is full of fabulous looking recipes, and all of them have a picture! That is a key factor in my choosing cookbooks, and this one really comes up on top. To me, the recipes really are "essentials," at least most of them. There are some obscure ones, but that's just the same for almost any cookbook. This one is great!

I have a copy and plan on buying one for each of my daughters

I love this cookbook. I have 3 shelves of cookbooks/culinary magazines. I kid you not. It is what I do for a living! This is the most well rounded informative cookbook I have seen in years. I intend to give my daughters each a copy for Christmas.

Many great recipes

I ordered this book because I wanted to improve upon my cooking skills! This book has many great recipes to try and even modify to our liking. The recipes are easy to follow. If you're looking for a staple cookbook, this is it!

Great solid cookbook

I have a ton of cookbooks, but this one is my favorite. The ingredients are not hard to find; they dont require fancy set-up for the recipes, and the give great little tips on the side bars. Not to mention, I have never tried a recipe from Williams-Sonoma that hasn't been a hit with my guests. I have done an all-WS Thanksgiving for the past three years, and everything is always fantastic.