📚 Cooking

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with cooking on their catalogue record, first published between 1747 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cooking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 124,952 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Frugal housewife	Lydia Maria Child	1829	127
Boston Cooking-School cook book	Fannie Merritt Farmer	1896	98
The Virginia house-wife	Mary Randolph	1824	80
On Cooking	Sarah R. Labensky	1994	74
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine	William Carew Hazlitt	1886	73
Joy of Cooking	Irma S. Rombauer	1931	67
Original White House Cookbook	Hugo Ziemann	1887	49
Guide culinaire	Auguste Escoffier	1903	49
The art of cookery, made plain and easy	Hannah Glasse	1747	45
A Book of Mediterranean Food	Elizabeth David	1950	34
The Professional Chef	Culinary Institute of America.	1962	31
French Country Cooking (Cookery Library)	Elizabeth David	1951	30
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book	Alice B. Toklas	1954	29
Le répertoire de la cuisine	Louis Saulnier	1914	22
Let's cook it right.	Adelle Davis	1947	21
Supercook	Marye Cameron-Smith	1985	21
Cooking Basics for Dummies	Bryan Miller	2004	19
Tender at the bone	Ruth Reichl	1998	17
Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book	Betty Crocker	1950	16
The Apprentice	Jacques Pépin	2003	15
Step-By-Step Practical Recipes	Gina Steer	2015	15
Chef Express	Trident Press International	2003	14
The I hate to cook book	Peg Bracken	1960	12
New York Times Cook Book	Craig Claiborne	1961	12
Cookbook	Betty Crocker	1969	12
The art of eating	M. F. K. Fisher	1954	11
How to Cook Everything	Mark Bittman	1998	11
The Silver Palate cookbook	Julee Rosso	1982	10
White Heat	Marco Pierre White	1990	9
Julie and Julia	Julie Powell	2001	9

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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