Cindy Pawlcyn's Napa Valley Home

Chef Cindy Pawlcyn's cookbook library in her Napa Valley home

Photo: Melanie Acevedo

Delicious Research

Cindy's cookbook library comprises roughly 4,000 volumes—everything from M.F.K. Fisher to Julia Child to Marcella Hazan to José Andrés—and is organized by regions of the world.