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We asked Ellen Rose from the Cook's Library for her compete list of must-have food books.  Here's what she wrote:

When KCRW invited me to post a list of my favorite books I had to have some criterion since I have thousands of cookbooks.  I decided to go through my books and pick the ones that are falling apart, pages stuck together, comments written all over the pages, and spotted with food - all from years of use.

For reference I love:
1. The New Food Lover's Companion by Sharon Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst

2. The Flavor Bible by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenberg

3. Also for reference as well as wonderful recipes: Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference: 500 Recipes, 275 Photographs, by Elizabeth Schneider

4. I have never had a question I was looking for not answered by this superb author: The New Doubleday Cookbook by Jean Anderson

5. The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater

6. Amarcord: Marcella Remembers by Marcella Hazan and Victor Hazan

7. Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts by Maida Heatter - I love all her cakes and make them all the time

8. Seriously Simple Holidays: Recipes and Ideas to Celebrate the Season by Diane Rossen Worthington and Noel Barnhurst.  The most useful book for everyday cooking.  I have gone through two copies, and The Cook's Library has sold over 2,000 copies of this book.

9. 1,000 Indian Recipes by Neelam Batra.  Everthing you can think of on Indian cooking is in this book.

10. Get Saucy: Make Dinner a New Way Every Day with Simple Sauces, Marinades, Glazes, Dressings, Pestos, Pasta Sauces, Salsas, and More by Grace Parisi.  An extremely comprehensive collection and easy! 

11. Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon by Claudia Roden.  This book is really falling apart.  I use it for dinner parties, and when I really want a great tagine.

12. The L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook by Judith B. Jones.  Definitive New England cooking.

13. Sunday Suppers at Lucques: Seasonal Recipes from Market to Table by Suzanne Goin and Teri Gelber.  A perfect cookbook.  So many inspiring, drop dead recipes.

14. Home Bistro by Betty Fussell.  Recipes for 2 and every recipe is a jewel.  Easy!

15. Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli  - The chapter on tomatoes will make you weep.

16. Also by Paul Bertolli, Chez Panisse Cooking.  Read the chapter on bread.  It is gorgeous and inspiring.

17. Patricia Wells At Home in Provence: Recipes Inspired By Her Farmhouse in France by Patricia Wells. 

18. And Bistro Cooking also by Patricia Wells.  I am on second copies of both these books I have used them so much.

19. Mastering The Art of French Cooking by Julia Child.  I would never make anyone else's French Onion Soup and her Mushroom Soup.