Skyhooks wrote:

> 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

Perhaps i missed the reference but i like the Fanny Farmer better than
the JOC.

My favourite of more esoteric cook books is the August Escoffier Guide
Culinaire, though i rarely make any of the recipes as he writes them, i
find it is very good for inspiration.

"English Cookery" by Cesarini and Kenton

"Jewish Cookery" by Leah Wolf

"Talisman Cook Book" by Ada Boni

are just a few of my favourites.
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JL