The 10 best-ever cookbooks

Craig Claiborne, the longtime food editor of the New York Times, amassed a series of delicious and doable recipes during his decades at the newspaper, many from now-famous chefs and cookbook authors he discovered, such as Madhur Jaffrey. These eclectic recipes still hold up today, all the more so in the 2010 update, The Essential New York Times Cookbook, by Amanda Hesser.