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Default Wanted: book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:23:26 -0500, Sqwertz >
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>On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:06:22 -0700, Ron wrote:
>
>> Amazon.com has Volumes 1 & 2 in a boxed set for $52.61 with free
>> shipping.

>
>Only twice the price that CostCo has been selling it for.
>

True, if you have a Costco membership. I didn't do much research on
new sets so don't know how Amazon.com compares.

>I've looked at it, but I just can't justify buying it. I'm not that
>thrilled about French cooking, unless it's Vietnamese. Which you
>won't find in any French cookbooks.
>


My wife bought the first Julia Child's French cooking book and to be
honest we haven't used that many recipes out of it. Now that the kids
are married and moved out, it's difficult to scale down many of the
recipes to just two servings.

Ron Kelley