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Default What are your favorite cookbooks? "The Joy of Cooking", "The Way to Cook"?

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"Kent" > wrote in message
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> I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but now and then one
> must search for what is new, and what people think.
> When I want to find a recipe I sit in front of our 300+ cookbooks ,
> and I almost always reach for the Rombauers' "Joy of Cooking", 1975
> edition, before anything else. This never ceases to amaze me. It's
> still the starting point, 300 cookbooks later.
> Following that it's almost always Julia Child;s "The Way to Cook".
> Next, depending on what I'm wanting to cook, are any of Marcella
> Hazan,'s books["Classic Italian Cooking], any of Michael Field's
> books["Cooking School", "Culinary Classics and Improvisations"].
> Only after the above, for almost everything else, do I open any of
> the remaining 290 books.
> What are your favorites? Especially newer favorites published in the
> last 5-10 years.
> Many thanks for any advice,
> Kent
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