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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Joy of Cooking cookbook
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 09:27:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 09:27:10 1985
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Summary: 

>> Does anyone have suggestions for cookbooks (any category) which you
>> would consider "safe"?
>>
>Probably the ultimate "safe" cookebook is the (in)famous "Joy
>of Cooking".  It has taken many lumps over the years for being
>"bland", "uninteresting", "overratted", but it is safe, safe, SAFE.

In addition, "The Joy of Cooking" is also crammed with *basic* cooking
information.  It actually *explains* what all those other cookbooks
assume you already know.  Things like what the ingredients are, how to
tell if they're fresh, how to store them, substitutions and equivalents,
and on and on.  It is also the only cookbook I've ever seen that 
actually provides "recipes" for things like baked potatoes, rice, iced 
tea, *plain* cooked vegetables, and the like.  It explains how to cut 
up chickens and how to carve turkeys.  It puts warnings on recipes (like
mayonnaise and certain pastries) whose success depends in part on the
weather.  

		charli