Product Description The 26-million-copy bestseller celebrates 40 years in print with a great new special heritage edition. Completely revised, it features special heritage recipes, fascinating food history, a complete nutritional breakdown for each dish, and gorgeous all-new photography. More than 1,000 recipes and 250 photographs and illustrations. 5-ring binder. [ ^Top ]
Good starting point
Rating: 
The book is divided into the usual cookbook sections (fish and shellfish, appetizers and beverages, etc). At the beginning of each section is a guide on how to shop for and care for ingredients. It also includes basic information on nutrition, food safety, entertaining, and other food-related topics.
Strengths of this book: Good source of basic baking recipes such as muffins, cakes, and banana breads. Tables with yields and substitutions are helpful. Clear pictures and descriptions are provided for terms such as dice, julienne, etc. Binder style lies flat when open, tabs make it easy to find what you're looking for, and pictures and glossy pages make the book visually more pleasing to look at than competitors such as Fannie Farmer or The Joy of Cooking.
Weaknesses: Not as comprehensive as the Joy of Cooking or Fannie Farmer. Also, it doesn't cover ethnic dishes (here I'm including even fairly mainstream cuisines such as Mexican and Italian) with a lot of depth or authenticity.
Bottom line: This is a good choice for a basic, general cookbook but you'll probably want to complement it with other books that focus more narrowly in your favorite specialty areas. If you're choosing between this book and Fannie Farmer or Joy of Cooking for your general cookbook, I'd recommend you get this as well as one of those other two books. This one, with its usability, is better for general use. One of the others will give you something to fall back on when you can't find a certain recipe in this book.
The Best Cookbook ever
Rating: 
I received this cookbook as a wedding present. It made me become a great cook. Not trendy, but definately not boring. The recipes grow as your skills does. My daughter spilled something and the pages stuck together and I went brough a newer addition, but it is not the same. I own over 20 cookbooks but always go back to this one.
The "standard" in my collection
Rating:
This was my very first cookbook, and I've never found its equal. The recepies may not be as flash as some of the newer, trendier chef cookbooks, but this one has everything you need to begin cooking for yourself, right through to medium level recepies. From explanations of what "julienne" and "caramelize" mean, to what spices work with what foods, to how to organize a buffet table, to how to eat a balanced meal. Recepies for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, snacks, drinks, appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, etc. And best of all, how to cook most any food without any preperation, spices, herbs, or fuss! Want to have a plain meal of steak, beans and potatoes? This book will tell you how. Want to have a plate of the best beef stroganoff you'll ever taste? It's in there as well. A must have for every kitchen, I use it almost daily.
more than 10 years later and still in heavy use!!!
Rating:
I bouth this one when I first moved out of the house, and my Mom confiscated her 1962 edition. Of all the cookbooks I have bought since then, this one gets used at least weekly!!! AT one point I wanted my bookshelf to look "cooler" so I bought Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything." Betty Crocker still wins hands down in quality and variety of recipes (not to mention his book fell apart after a few uses.
Buy this edition or any of the newer editions that followed, and you will never go wrong! And as corny as it sounds, the notebook style is a great idea, I have stuffed mine full of all kinds of recipes, it is like the book that continues to grow with me.
The Only Cookbook You will EVER need!
Rating:
This Covers it all. From the basic white sauce, to the Easy to make and Delisious Pasta sauce........all the way to Leg of Lamb, to all Fish Dishes and Deserts Galore. Easy to read and comprehend, it's like a kindergarten Cookbook for adults and the RESULTS are FABULOUS!
A+++...
[ ^Top ] |
Contact
