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

Kent wrote:
> 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.


Amen! My first cookbook (same edition). I sat and read it like a novel
and still consider it "the source"