"Rich" > wrote in message
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> "Kent" > wrote in message
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>> 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.
>> Following that it's almost always Julia Child;s "The Way to Cook". Next,
>> depending on what I'm wanting to cook, are any of Marcella Hazan,'s
>> books["Classic Italian Cooking], any of Michael Field's books["Cooking
>> School", "Culinary Classics and Improvisations"]. Only after the above,
>> for almost everything else, do I open any of the remaining 290 books.
>> What are your favorites? Especially newer favorites published in the last
>> 5-10 years.
>> Many thanks for any advice,
>> Kent
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> Now that the internet is available, who needs a cookbook? Pick any
> prepared food, even an obscure one like, say Cumberland sauce, and Google
> it and you will get many recipes for it to choose from.
>
> Results 1 - 10 of about 345,000 for cumberland sauce. (0.52 seconds)
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> See? 0.52 seconds! Try to find Cumberland sauce in the indexes of all your
> cookbooks. It'll take you awhile, if it's there at all!
>
>
> --Rich
>

This assume that your computer is running when you're cooking, and that you
want to use electricity to read all the time.