International Cookbooks

Hi all-
I want to try dishes from as many different cultures as possible. If I can "travel" to every country, I'd be pleased as punch.

What are your favorite international cookbooks?

Not a direct response but I have a number of cookbooks published by Phaidon. They tend to be some of my favorites overall and include a number of International cuisines (many by well known chef authors). Use their website for information and then buy from Amazon (much cheaper):

https://www.phaidon.com/store/food-cook/?page=all

As an aside, I've given their "What to Eat and How to Cook It" and "What to Bake and How to Bake It" as gifts to unskilled friends and they're a big hit. Beautifully detailed with step-by step photos.

One of my kids gave me Ferran Adria's "Family Cookbook" which details the favorite meals made for the staff at El Bulli. It was pretty cool and decidedly unfussy comfort foods, including a low-tech potato-chip omelet.

Fuschia Dunlop's Land of Plenty (Sichuan) gets a lot of attention here. If for no other reason than to find out what Kung Pao Chicken should really taste like, it's worth owning.
Julie Sahni's Classic Indian Cooking (modeled after Marcella Hazan's Classic Italian Coobook) is one of my go-tos. Reliable recipes, if not the widest range.
Mary Bsisu's The Arab Table has a number of recipes I enjoy, especially the Kibbeh in the Tray
Leela Punyaratabandhu's Simple Thai Cooking is a great start to that wide cuisine, much more approachable than David Thompson's massive volume. I haven't gotten into her sequel Bangkok yet.
Any cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi will expose you to interesting mediterranean flavors, I'm particularly fond of Jerusalem.

Not completely international, but covers 15 countries in Asia: The Complete Asian Cookbook, by Charmaine Soloman.

One of my FAVORITE International Cooks is one written by Copeland Marks- who literally travelled the World, following the paths of the Jewish Diaspora following the Spanish Inquisition in 1492.

Inside the book "Sephardic Cooking" you will not only find over 600 recipes, but a very patient mans time spent interviewing Aunties and Uncles and experts and home cooks who have preserved their families traditions and often adapting them to the Culture and Lands in which they have settled.

Craig Claiborne (of The NYTimes) said it best on the back of the dust jacket-
"For any serious cook who honestly cares about the cuisines of the world,
the books of Copeland Marks are marvels.
He is a genius and where the cookstove is involved, an explorer and archeologist
of the finest order....
The dedication that Copeland Marks shows towards the preservation of Food Culture resembles that of an archeologist for ancient civilizations....Copeland Marks deserves highest honors for his boldness in codifying the exotic cuisines of the world for Western Cooks."

When I first met my better/half who was born in Kerela INDIA-
a part of my "rap"
in my 1st introduction to her- was aided by my knowledge of The Jews of Cochin India (which is in Kerala) gleaned from this cookbook.
When a cookbook allows you to travel the world- not just from your armchair- but with the food that you've prepared, on your stove, from those various parts of the World- allows you to gain an understanding of those regions.
https://www.amazon.com/Sephardic-Cookin ... 1556113188