(Part 2) Best international cooking, food & wine books according to redditors

I'm not totally sure if this is what you're looking for but I have this cookbook and it's amazing to read through! I haven't actually made anything from it though, it's more of a curiosity than anything else. A lot of the recipes are just really far outside my sphere of knowledge.

Being a big Marcus Samuelssen fan, someone got me his New American Table cookbook as a gift. Almost no pictures of the food whatsoever. It will be a recipe and, like, a photo of an old sign or a tree or a car on a deserted road or something. So frustrating.

1. Something Grey
   
   
2. Something something rain
   
   
3. Unusual food
   
   
4. This is technically for my SO. I want this to make him something which would be gifted to him.
   
   
5. Read this, because sugar
   
   
6. <$1
   
   
7. This has cats in it. I promise
   
   
8. These are not useful IMO because I wouldn't want to use them. They look so good!(also I live with my dad and he has plenty)
   
   
9. Because of Marvin
   
   
10. There's good info in this book on roasting...zombies
    
    
11. I GET TOO BORED WITH MY LIFE AND WANT TO START THIS HOBBY
    
    
12. Add-on
    
    
13. This is the most expensive. I've been looking for a case that has the right feel to it. Not bible-y. And looks like a book..hence the wooden part
    
    
14. This looks bigger than a normal breadbox
    
    
15. This is smaller--so small that it's not even physical
    
    
16. These smell just as good as they taste
    
    
17. SFW Toy
    
    
18. Helpful for school--so you can be part of the cool kids
    
    
19. new obsession--Looking at videos of crocheting that I have yet to figure out / try
    
    
20. I don't have anything grand. :( edit: I FOUND SOMETHING GRAND
    
    BONUS JONAS
    
    Oregon--The company is called Made In Oregon. They can't lie about that, right? ...Right?
    
    I found your name in this album. I didn't know your butt was that of a monkeys
    
    Fear cuts deeper than swords
    
    Edit: name and gift card.

Amar'e Stoudemire just wrote a cookbook, and former giant pair of swinging elbows Charles Oakley had a cooking show at some point, so I'd probably have those two in the kitchen of a bar and grill in the heart of NYC. Some real-deal barbecue (none of that usual weak-ass NY shit), a row of $4 taps and a row of $7 taps, and some old school R&B playing just below conversation level. Nate Robinson could work behind the bar. It could be called Bockers, and it would be glorious.

Yeah, I'm this bored.

So are these books atypical? 1, 2

Do you ever miss the mind blowing selections you can find in even a mid sized American city? I'm currently reading Reay Tannahill's Food in History and I'm reminded of just how amazingly good modern day US residents of even mediocre cities really have it when it comes to food variety and choice.

It must be pretty stifling to be a chef in a region where black pepper is considered controversial.

Applehood and MotherPie is one of my favorites. My OnCooking textbook is pretty good for a lot of stuff. Also, can't forget my nana's cookbook, Journey Into Cooking :) Lots of old school italian specialties (and a lot of weird stuff too).