If you love food, you must enrich your cooking knowledge by reading more about gastronomy and cooking cultures. Here are few of the most popular cook books that you cannot miss reading.

1. Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Mastering the Art of French Cooking  by Julia Child was one that inspired the world to pursue French cooking. Julia Child introduced coking as an art and brought out the essence of French cooking. Through many techniques and methods that were mentioned in this book French cooking drew attention form chefs, home makes and cooks around the world.

2. The taste of Country Cooking

Edna Lewis's work is an exploration to the southern cooking experience. Her book deals with country cooking and brings to light African American heritage.  Apart from all the information given on southern cooking, it is also a celebration of the African American culture.

3. The Seasonal Cooking Manifesto

The Seasonal Cooking Manifesto  by Judy Rodgers deals with different techniques of cooking. This is a book meant for chefs and restaurant cooking. The book also introduced the amazing recipe Zuni Café Roast Chicken that is still served at Rodgers' San Francisco restaurant.

4. The River Cottage Meat Book

This is a book that discusses everything about finding meat to the point of eating the meat. Apart from basic techniques and tips, it has a variety of meat recipes to experiment. For every meat lover, this one's your go-to book.

5. The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

Nigel Slater expresses his yearlong experiences with cooking and culinary stories. The book is more like a journal that has recorded all the simple but amazing experiences of the writer. Though they are things most of us do in the kitchen every day, the way Slater has written makes us crave for the food we cook.