I have 3 Milk Street cookbooks. All of them stimulate great cooking ideas, but they suggest ingredients that are too fancy for the everyday cook. I trade recipes with a busy fellow cook who has observed the same thing: too fancy. I haven't read Cook What You Have or Milk Street Simple. Maybe they would be less complicated cookbooks for me. Recipes
...Read MoreRead more about I have 3 Milk Street cookbooks. All of from NY Times and Jacques Pepin are consistently much easier to follow, quicker to throw together, and use common ingredients that I don't have to go to a specialty market to find. One other thing: the Milk Street cookbooks are large. I prefer smaller sized cookbooks that don't take up a lot of space when they are open on the kitchen counter. I do enjoy having a collection of cookbooks. You can't have too many, right? Read LessRead less about I have 3 Milk Street cookbooks. All of