"Gregory Morrow" > wrote in message
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>
> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
> > I was googling for this series online, and realized that there were
> > some noted food writers that T-L enlisted to write them...like MFK
> > Fisher, Waverly Root, Joseph Wechsberg,
>
>
> My single favorite volume (I have them all, but not the accompanying
> recipe books) is the one Weschberg authored, "The Cooking of Vienna's
> Empire". He is simply a *superb* writer...
>
> Another series that I recently pulled out of the closet is the 12 -
> volume _Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery_. Not only is it really
> thorough, but it's surprisingly sophisticated for 1966. I've enjoyed
> re - reading it...
>
> --
> best
> Greg
>

I refer to the Woman's Day Encyclopedia of Cookery somewhat frequently (make
sure it's the 1966 edition however). Took me a couple years to locate the
set in its entirely.... volumes 3 through 6 won't do you much good <g>.

Don't have the Time-Life Cookbooks: Foods of the World series. Rats!