Best german cooking, food & wine books according to redditors

My German friend's mum used to swear up and down by these books!

http://www.amazon.com/German-Cooking-Today-Oetker-Verlag/dp/3767012545/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398607546&sr=1-3&keywords=dr+oetker

http://www.amazon.com/German-Baking-Today-Dr-Oetker/dp/376700934X/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1962SX6DBY4MR9NM2NZ1

I have a small collection of English-language German cookbooks, so here's a few examples from the ones I have:

https://imgur.com/a/y24aW

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https://smile.amazon.com/German-Cooking-Complete-Preparing-American/dp/1557882517

https://smile.amazon.com/Cuisines-Germany-Regional-Specialties-Traditional/dp/0671631977

https://smile.amazon.com/German-Cookbook-Complete-Mastering-Authentic/dp/0394401387

This is kind of small, and there aren't photos or anything, but it has some basic recipes and different anecdotes about different regions and different food traditions: http://www.amazon.com/Great-German-Recipes-editor/dp/1932043500/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0T5CD98DECMQ391HVMAD

I got it as a gift many years ago and left with my mom when I moved.

For basic German cooking the Dr. Oetker cookbooks are good. There is a English version but I only have the German books: https://www.amazon.com/German-Cooking-Today-Oetker-Verlag/dp/3767009331/

For Hasenpfeffer I found to recipes that are comparable to the German ones

• https://chefs-table.homebrewchef.com/recipes-archive/hasenpfeffer/
  
• https://lindysez.com/recipe/hasenpfeffer-german-wine-braised-rabbit/
  
  Some recipes add some ginger bread and I found multiple recipes with and without bacon. I would use the sauce step from the Chefs-table recipe and not the other one.
  
  You can serve it with potato dumplings (Kartoffelklöße) or Spätzle and cranberries or applesauce.

I have several recipes that have grated potatoes, from the book, The Cuisines of Germany by Horst Scharfenberg The Cuisines if Germany

Did your Mom's recipe included with the grated potatoes either,

1. Fried bread cubes/croutons -- I have several with variations of this
   
   
2. Bacon (cut into squares) and bread crumbs
   
   
3. Just grated potatoes

My German host mom gave me the Dr. Oetker Schulkochbuch as an Easter gift almost 20 years ago. It's all in German, but there are awesome photos for each recipe showing you what to. Worst case you have to Google a few words. I think that this might be the English version, but I haven't examined http://www.amazon.com/German-Cooking-Today-The-Original/dp/3767003708

this one: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3767005220/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1