The Joy of Cooking

[brigid]

No one who tries to cook even a hardboiled egg should be without this book. It's as basic as ... toilet paper. As salt. As wheat. 'Nuff said.

Absolutely! ......................

[briarbowl]

I pretty much agree with everyone's take on The Joy of Cooking. I don't really use it for inspiration or recipes but as an information resource, it's a necessity. The other book I use frequently is an old, old book that my wife had before we met called The Settlement Cookbook. It's very ***ist but, if you can get past that, is quite an interesting piece.

[blue catfish]

i have had my Joy of Cooking book since shortly after my wife and i got married. And that is 39 years ago. I still go to that book all the time. I have plenty of cook books. But this one has to be one of the best.. I don't know if you all have Borders book store near you.But they are going out of biz. Not to long ago they had this book marked down to $10.00. You mite want to check them out.

[KarenB]

I found your Settlement cookbook in PDF Thanks I love old cookbooks. I read them like a novel.

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/...ks/book_52.cfm

[brigid]

So do I. It is one of my favorite pastimes!

[Rozzer]

I found your Settlement cookbook in PDF Thanks I love old cookbooks. I read them like a novel. http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/...ks/book_52.cfm

Wow! That digital version of the Settlement House Cookbook clocks in at 92 megabytes! HUGE! I tried to find a smaller on-line version (most full-length on-line cookbooks are, say, 5 megabytes for the .pdf version of a BIG cookbook), but didn't succeed. Anyone else find a smaller version? I really wonder why they required 92 whole megabytes.