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I have been wanting this book for years but finally ordered it since the price was so good. I ordered this for a specific recipe that my grandmother used to make, Russian borscht. My grandmother now has Alzheimer’s so it means so much to me to have this recipe. I looked online but didn’t see any similar borscht recipes to what she made. This book is amazing it has a recipe for anything you could dream up as well as good old fashioned recipes.
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I absolutely love this book! I have been a sous chef for several years for my job and my chef and I have grown together with this book. Hes planning to move across the US and is taking his book with him so now it's time to get one of my own. This book explains so much and has made recipes very easy to follow. You know how you read the ingredients and think you know how the recipe is going to go and then later you realize you did it backwards? This book tells you what you need and when to add it and how to do it to make it come out right, it gives you the ingredients to add then the step, then follows with the rest of the ingredients along with the procedure for that. It's so easy to follow and the stories are so unique! The food taste so comforting and relaxing like mom made it! Absolutely love it! When making the foods it tells you the outcome you're looking for which has been very helpful! I would recommend this book to everyone who does not have one! If you're just learning about some things its great to read off of and learn.Read full review
We got the Joy of Cooking as a wedding present, and recently bought one for a single friend of ours because it's become the Gold Standard of cookbooks for us. It is a cookbook for novices and experts alike - it explains how to boil the perfect egg, tells you how to select good cantaloupes, helps you differentiate between all the leafy greens in the produce section and explains how to cook mustard greens versus chard or collards. Every technique is explained somewhere in easy-to-read terms. The recipes are doable and diverse, from grilling steaks to boeuf bourguignon. There are good vegetarian, ethnic, eclectic, and traditional dishes. The Joy is easy to navigate as a reference tool - the index is great, and each section is laid out in predictable ways, giving background and tips on specific foods, with recipes following. My husband used to feel completely uncapable in the kitchen. He'd joke, "there's JOY in cooking?" Now he reads the JOY just for fun ("did you know the history of the spanish omelette?"). This cookbook has taught us how to cook. Best wedding present ever.Read full review
I've had this cookbook since 1998 and use it regularly. Whenever I'm cooking something new, I look here first. The book provides excellent techniques, descriptions, and histories to most dishes. It covers everything from appetizers to main dishes to desserts in great detail. My niece recently stayed with us for about six months. Her family constantly gave her a hard time about her cooking abilities. I gained a whole new respect for this cookbook when I saw how it built up her confidence and her cooking skills in the short time she was with us. Now, whenever she comes over she usually asks if she can bake snickerdoodles and immediately heads for the pantry to get "The Joy of Cooking". I've read that the later edition lost a lot of the cooking lessons that were included in this edition. For that reason alone, this is the book I've decided to buy all my nieces for Christmas.Read full review
I love this book. !!! IF YOU ONLY OWN ONE COOKBOOK, THIS IS THE ONE TO OWN !!! Huge book ... Over a 1000 pages with chapters on every food item you can imagine. Initially authored by Mom, Irma Rombauer, then later revised and kept up to date by her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker and now by grandson, Ethan Becker. What a testament to good cooking! The authors have even included knowledgeable information for most products used, i.e in the Fruits chapter, the write up on pears indicates the variety of pears that are available, physical description, their traits, when to pick them, how to cook them, store them. Exciting recipees are found with each turn of the page. A handy red satin bookmark embedded in the spine of the book, is also a plus. I have the new version and older version of the JOY OF COOKING BOOK. Happy Cooking!Read full review
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