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Richard Periut
 
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Naomi Darvell wrote:
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>>The Joy of Cooking is encyclopedic, but very bland.
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> The original Joy of Cooking was weird. It could make for fun reading,
> especially the comments before the recipes. For a diet salad dressing: "No, it
> isn't particularly good, but it can be eaten by the bulging with a clear
> conscience." (Quote may not be exact, but I lost my copy.) Some of the recipes
> were good and others were crap.
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> Naomi D.
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JOC serves more as a blueprint for recipes (as most recipes.) I find it
the most complete and eclectic cook book of the times.

There is no other collection that can boast such properties for the
price. A true bible of cooking.

Rich

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"Dum Spiro, Spero."

As long as I breath, I hope.

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