Now to something Austrian. My very favorite cooking book (source: libri.de)

Of course it's all German... what I love about it are the many basic recipes for standard Austrian cuisine. It's not only recipes, but they give you an idea of what goes together and how things have to be prepared. In brief: they spark up your creativity (at least of cooking beginners like me). I haven't even tried the majority of recipes yet, but those I've tried almost always turned out well and are staples in my kitchen now (the exception is some cake that ended up with too much egg...).