Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Recommendable cookbooks - (nf) Message-ID: <5306@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 23:32:21 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5306 Posted: Wed Feb 1 23:32:21 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 15:38:07 EST Lines: 18 #R:olivej:-12500:uicsl:3800036:000:854 uicsl!wombat Feb 1 14:15:00 1984 I've never looked at Joy of Cooking, but the best basic cookbook I've seen is the Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook. It has recipes for all the basics, like lasagne, meatloaf, various cuts of meat, soups, cookies and cakes, and on and on. No, it won't tell you the best way to use your food processor with your wok, but it will explain cuts of meat, using herbs and spices, whether to put the eggs in before the water boils and the best way to peel the eggs afterwards, basic canning and freezing procedures/charts, and other helpful things. (There's even an appendix that tells you how to throw a dinner party.) It has almost never failed to answer my basic cooking questions. Add to it a good pasta cookbook, a good Chinese cookbook, and any other advanced book you like for a decent kitchen library. Wombat ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat