On May 13, 5:53 pm, Goomba38 > wrote:
> Christine Dabney wrote:
> > One of my favorite books is Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham.
>
> > She doesn't assume you know anything, and her recipes work. She will
> > take you step by step through recipes and what you need to become a
> > good beginning cook.
>
> I love JoC, but this is a good one too. I have given it as a gift
> myself. Nice pictures.

JoC assumes that you have some knowledge of cooking. A great
reference work for many thing but not a beginner's book. Mind you it
is very American. No recipe for butter tarts in the last edition I
owned.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada