Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiuccsb!leimkuhl From: leimkuhl@uiuccsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: Recommendable cookbooks - (nf) Message-ID: <5244@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 22:32:59 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5244 Posted: Mon Jan 30 22:32:59 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:35:58 EST Lines: 21 #R:olivej:-12500:uiuccsb:7000024:000:828 uiuccsb!leimkuhl Jan 29 22:03:00 1984 I had the use of about 25 cookbooks when I was at home (not so long ago!). The one I found myself using all the time was the Joy of Cooking. The nice points about it are: 1) Just about everything's in there. (If you want to cook a live turtle or an opposum, this book tells you how.) 2) It has brief descriptive passages on all sorts of cooking terms and techniques. Information is reliable and easy to read. 3) Recipes are not overly complex (as in say Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking" or Lenotre's books on pastry) but are also not riduculously simplified (as in the New York Times' cookbook and most of today's cookbooks). 4) Things that I make using this cookbook seem to work more often than things I make using any other cookbook. Ben Leimkuhler (uiucdcs!uiuccsb!leimkuhler)