My recommendation is a little different in attitude than most I'm seeing here. When I think goddess, the feeling that comes to mind is effortlessness- trial and strife is puny mortal stuff. A book that has been deeply influential for me is Tamar Adler's An Everlasting Meal. It's a cook book, or a cooking book, but it's much less a collection of recipes than it is a philosophy of food and the daily act of cooking. It's a poetic ode to the practice of loving and using food simply and well- the "economy" part of the tagline is true, but rather than being preachy she makes using up potato peels and beet tops feel like spinning straw to gold.
Tamar Adler has a great book on the basics of boiling, on Amazon roasting, etc. Love changing for me. I love cooking now.