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Summary: Great Resource
Review: All the basics and more !
A great all purpose cookbook, covers everything from boiling
veggies to shrimp scampi.
I use it as my main source to cook something new all the time, and that has given me new things all the time for over 10 years (although
this is the updated version).
A must in your kitchen ! You won't regret it !!!
I'm buying a new copy just cuz it's dog eared and worn.
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Summary: THE cookbook for new cooks
Review: Buy it, keep it and then will it to your heirs. This is the first cookbook I reach for out of fifty, including international cookbooks. Luckily I found another edition, two volumes and bought it for my 14 year old daughter. This book tells you what it is, how to clean it, how to fix it, how to eat it and what the nutritional content is. Recipe variations abound. If you are just learning how to cook, this book is it! It tells you everything; what to keep in your kitchen, fundamentals of cooking, how to use spices what the meat cuts are and where they come from, how to pick good produce, how to make jelly, breads. If you read through the index, you will find things you never heard of. Definitely a worthwile investment or gift to newlyweds or newly-moved-outs. It is a great first step.
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Summary: this is THE cookbook.
Review: I am SO glad to have finally found this cookbook! This is the cookbook my mother used when I was growing up, and the one I learned how to cook out of. I've been on my own for four years now... and WAHH!!!! I miss my cookbook! I've looked everywhere for it in my area!I'm not one of those major cooks.. i just cook when i need to. But even cookbooks *for* people like me just don't cut it. They ask for ingredients i can't get, don't show variations, don't explain HOW to cook certain foods, etc.. In other words, they weren't the doubleday cookbook. Thank you Amazon, for coming through once again.
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Summary: Still the best.
Review: I bought an earlier edition of this book when I got married in 1976. Over the past 25 years, it is the book I have most often reached for (together with Joy of Cooking). It is similar to Joy of Cooking, but contains different receipies, and slightly different, but complimentary information. I will buy this book for my dauther when she gets married.
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Summary: A Good Companion Volume to Joy of Cooking
Review: I bought an earlier edition of this book when I got married in 1976. Over the past 25 years, it is the book I have most often reached for (together with Joy of Cooking). It is similar to Joy of Cooking, but contains different receipies, and slightly different, but complimentary information. I will buy this book for my dauther when she gets married.
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Summary: Still the best.
Review: I bought the previous edition in the late 70s when I didn't have much of a budget for cookbooks and boy was it a bargain! When I was growing up, my mother wouldn't let us into the kitchen so I learned to cook from this one book. These are reliable and perfected recipes. For owners of the previous edition there are a couple of things missing - pigs in blankets using canned crescent rolls and jiffy (deviled) eggs using sandwich spread. So, keep your old falling-apart copy. Still in there however, are some of my favorites - meatloaf with oats, mushroom madiera sauce, asparagus with dill sauce, and the proper way to make an omelet. I just hope they made the binding better so this copy doesn't fall apart in 20 years.
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Summary: My favorite, and I have 'em all!
Review: I bought this jewel because it was recommended in the "Cooking for Dummies" book. I also bought many others, but this the one I always turn to. Why? Because every recipe I've tried has produced a stellar end result. Candy (great penuche), meats, vegetable dishes, seafood...it's all good. Best of all, everything is explained so that even a "dummy" like me can follow along. This is the one cookbook I own that is truly indespensible.
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Summary: My favorite, and I have 'em all!
Review: I bought this jewel because it was recommended in the "Cooking for Dummies" book. I also bought many others, but this the one I always turn to. Why? Because every recipe I've tried has produced a stellar end result. Candy (great penuche), meats, vegetable dishes, seafood...it's all good. Best of all, everything is explained so that even a "dummy" like me can follow along. This is the one cookbook I own that is truly indespensible.
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Summary: If I could have only one cookbook this classic would be IT!
Review: I confess, I've never really believed any cookbook jacket information before but in the case of The New Doubleday Cookbook I can tell you it's all true! It IS the most complete, up-to-date cookbook I have ever found and it always has the answer to all my cooking questions. I can choose from over 4500 simple or sophisticated recipes each one with its own calorie, cholesterol and sodium count and there's tons of handy information about new foods, multiethnic ingredients, new equipment, basic and special cooking techniques, food additives, nutrition ...just about everything anyone wants to know about buying, preparing, cooking and presenting food. This is my favorite kitchen companion now and I know it's the ideal gift for friends and family...beginners, brides and experienced cooks too.
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Summary: This is a WONDERFUL cookbook
Review: I consider myself a fairly accomplished cook, so that when someone gave my wife and I a copy of this "basic" cookbook for our wedding, I was initially disappointed, thinking that I didn't need this book. How WRONG I was! :-) I have found this book to be completely invaluable in my kitchen. What I found was that I often know how to make more complex recipes, but when I needed to make a more "standard" recipe - I was often at a loss.....how DO you cook a pot roast? Make a mint julep? What temperature DO you cook a yam at, anyway? All this and much more is in this book. This book has easy to find sections on meats, fish, poultry, drinks, desserts and much more, and many many recipes. It also has a provides a fairly exhaustive definition of almost anything cooking related from types of crabs to buy all the way to the various types of sugars available on the market. When I'm at a loss for what to serve for dinner, I just flip through this book for ideas. The same goes for when I am experimenting and creating some new japanese-creole dish to subject my family to! :-) This is a LARGE book, with no flashy pictures or anything like that (there are some basic drawings - for example, what part of the cow gets cut up for what kind of meat. Things like that), so you are getting a lot for your money. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who enjoys spending any time in the kitchen. I enjoy it so much that I'm buying another copy as a gift for my little sister's wedding shower! :-)
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