Skyhooks > wrote in
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> Goomba38 wrote:
>>
>> 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"
>
> Ditto & Ditto! I consider JoC to be the "bible" of my kitchen. I
> even gave my college kid the new edition of the JoC when he went to
> live on his own. I have the 1975 copy, but I also had to buy another
> new edition (along with son's) to have for one of my own <g>.
>
> Sky


Mom couldn't cook.
Pop buys Mom 1957 + 1959 Gourmet Magazine Cookbook volumes.
Mom becomes gourmet cook.
Pop starts having heart attacks.
Pop goes on weight watchers.
Family suffers.
Andy inherits cookbooks.
Andy learns how to cook.
Andy goes on diet.

And so it goes.

Andy