"Steve Wertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:31:43 GMT, "Adam Schwartz"
> > wrote:
>
> > For a few days I had been looking for good recipies for hummus and
> >falafels. Then, at work, my boss asked me to make baba ganoush from the
> >recipe in his "Joy of Cooking". I was surprised to find a recipe for
baba
> >ganoush in JoC, so I looked in the index, and found recipies for hummus
as
> >well as falafel. When I came home from work, I immediately opened my JoC
> >and looked for the falafel recipe in the index. No luck. I searched for
> >hummus. It wasn't there either. It doesn't even have a recipe for baba
> >ganoush. I have the 2004 spiral bound edition. Where are the recipies?
> >I'm very dissapointed.
>
> There are 2 Joy of Cooking books: The All New Joy of Cooking
> published sometime in the late 90's, and the original, last
> revised in 1975 and distributed by a dozen or so publishers.
>
> The original Joy of Cooking does not contain the recipes you
> mentioned, so it must be in the newer version.


I'm just curious here. I have both JC and NJC. Am I the only one who has
consistent bad results with their recipes and techniques? I mean I fancy
myself an able cook, not a chef by any means, yet I always seem to have to
make a JC recipe a couple of times and make changes to it to get it to come
out right. I have so much better success with other cookbooks it seems.

Paul