Type of Cookbooks You Should Know
1. International and Ethnic Cookbooks
Tells about kitchen references of other cultures. This kind of books translated foreign recipes, ingredients, and technique for the new audiences. The recipes is often simplified or have substitution of utensils to adjust local readers and cooking enthusiast
2. Professional Cookbooks
Designed for experienced chef and culinary students, some book even going as far to be the main textbook for culinary school. Recipes and techniques is not the main mandatory of this book, services and workflow is also explained in detailed manners.
3. Catering Cookbooks
This kind of book is for those who wants to prepare foods for large numbers of people.
4. Single-subject Cookbooks
Dealing in one term in cooking, wether it is ingredient, technique, diet type, or even class of foods. It is quite commons and some publisher like Chronicle Books specialized in publishing this kind of book. Naked Chocolate by Shazzie is one good example as a raw food recipe books.
5. Community Cookbooks
An unique genre of cookbooks, it focused on home cooking and sometimes documenting traditions or personal cooking experience. Sometimes could be gained for free or as charity.
6. Documented Cookbooks
Documenting foods prepared by specific famous chef. Usually written by professional chef or famous restaurant chef. Book released based on popular cooking shows on Television, such as Rachael Ray, could be included into documented cookbooks.
