Kent wrote:

> If anyone, based on the uniformity of this thread, is thinking about buying
> the "Joy of Cooking", it's very important to get the last edition (1974)
> written by the Rombauers without help from anyone else. The "Joys" published
> after this date were added to by Ethan Becker. One rewrite took the original
> famous emergency dish "tuna noodle casserole" and added cheese to it! That's
> almost sacrilegious!!

I prefer the older editions, too. I've had many over the years. My
first, the one I made cakes from when I was a kid, still had the
recipe for cleaning and cooking a porcupine.

My first major revelation into the world of food was reading
the JOC "Know Your Ingredients" chapter in grade school.

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Reg