On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:29:37 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:


>Recipes from Foods of the World, which consists of 16 wire bound books. A
>friend commented these are essential if you intend to cook recipes from the
>series.
>
There are more than 16 of those little spiral bound books. Each
volume came with one..and sometimes there were "extras".

>The Good Cook Techniques and Recipes, which consists of 28 volumes. It
>includes the rare book on offal called Variety Meats.
I think I have that one!!

>Here is the subheading for _Foods Of The World_, all 31 volumes, you can get
>a printable list of all the volumes:
>
>http://www.volumelists.com/detail.ph...%20the%20World
>
>"Foods of the World
>
>The Foods of the World series seeks to expose the reader to the indigenous
>cuisine from various areas of the world. Each volume represents the cooking
>techniques and styles used in one specific region, and in all they are
>pretty thorough. There is also a series of recipe binders that go along with
>this series; the titles are the same as the hardcover books but they are
>spiral bound.
>
>Four more items exist; a short set of volumes (Kitchen Guide, Menu Guide and
>Recipe Index, Supplement 1 and Supplement 2) that are harder to get info on.
>I have heard these are softcover and similar to pamphlets..."

Yep. Those were the extras I was talking about.

Christine, who has a complete, intact set of The Foods of the World,
and almost the whole series of The Good Cook.