Joy of Cooking

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Summary: The best book with which to start and finish cooking!
Review: I remember my mother's "essential" cook books and I always appreciated that they took nothing for granted in their expectations of what you knew about cooking! I was so please with my discovery of "The Joy of Cooking"! My family cooks a lot of food from a variety of cultural backgrounds (we are a multicultural family) but every so often you draw a blank on some of the most common or essential elements of North American cooking. This book will get you through! I also like all the background information about ingredients (are the authors closet chemists?) and the susbtitution tables. This book fills in all the in-betweens that lack from most cookbooks. Speaking as a person who is not a cook but that thoroughly enjoys food I gotta say this is the best book I have encountered for both making an approach and successfully carrying through a cooking project. (Gosh! By the sounds of my review these folks should be canonized!)

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Summary: Great for the beginner & helpful for the experienced!
Review: I have enjoyed this book for several years, have three daughters to whom I have given the book. I highly recommend it to anyone from the burnt pot cooker to the gourmets delight. There is a wealth of knowledge on every page. Truely the greatest book for every kitchen.

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Summary: A great book for most any cook
Review: I have an older edition, Copyright 1964. On page 305 (About Tomatoes), it stated that immature green tomatoes will not ripen off the vine. I've been ripening green tomatoes off the vine (placed with apples or bananas) for several weeks. They are delicious!

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Summary: This da book!
Review: This is my favorite cookbook and if I could have only one cookbook this would be the one! The recipes are delicious and the instructions are easy to follow. If you want to "wow" your friends, make the lebkuchen or the strawberry pie! This is the cookbook to have if you need to prepare game or if you want to can your millions of tomatoes or make jam or jelly--or if you would like to think you could do it if you had to. I hope that this edition of "Joy of Cooking" stays in print because it is such a good book. I have the newer edition, and I consult it, but this one is my favorite.

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Summary: Its a book for those who love and those who hate to cook
Review: If you love to cook, it has endless variety. I used the squid recipe just last week! If you hate to cook, it is so clear and fascinating, it will hook you in, anyway. I can't imagine a better cookbook if you could only own one. And You could throw the others out, if you have this. No kidding! You can't stump this author. I have owned it long enough to go from being an indifferent cook to a much better one. Its the secret to being a much better one!

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Summary: Wonderful book for my recently married daughter in Juneau,Ak
Review: Wonderful cook book that I treasure most among the more than one hundred cook books that I have and use. I bought two older versions at garage sales for my collection and read them when all other reading fails to hold my attention. My 20 something yr old married daughter now living in Juneau, Ak, and (she really needs a good cook book!) now has one of my copies. It is a wonderful book, informative, accurate and I trust all information. Buy it now and your grandchildren will love you for your cooking. When you pass on and go to the land of "Chicken and Dumplings" they will fight over your book "Joy of Cooking" book.

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Summary: Throw your other cook books away!
Review: I've been cooking for thirty years and tried almost every popular cook book printed. My mother had the first version of this book, and I've bought new copies every five years or so, when the pages just wouldn't stay in the book anymore! (and it wasn't because of a poor bindery job, either!) I now have only this book and my personal collection of recipes. Now my current copy has fallen apart and I'm buying another. If you want to know how to cook just about anything, in any manner (including pit cooking!) and have fun reading the directions, this is the version of Joy of Cooking you want to own. Nutritional information, preserving, storing food . . . I've even tried the canning and pickling. The instructions are extremely complete.

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Summary: The BEST all around cookbook EVER
Review: I learned to cook from my mother's, 1946 edition, started my married life in 1974 using the 1974-75 edition I got as a wedding gift. I have just purchased 4 copies to give to my children, nieces and nephews. "The Joy" not ony has an interesting variety of recipes and an easily understandable step-by-step process for preparing them, but also has invaluable information on, entertaining, table settings, ingredients and equipment. It is as valuable for the experienced cook, for it's revised up to date recipes with an eye toward good health, as it is for the new cook looking for basic, time-tested recipes. The book is written in the informative and conversational style which made previous editions so interesting. It is the quintessential cooking primer!!

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Summary: Beware, this is not a new book!
Review: The description of this spiral-bound version of The Joy of Cooking says it was Published in November 1997, but it was not. It was printed in 1997 but is a very old edition of the book printed on very cheap paper. A big disappointment if you thought you were ordering the new version of the book.

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Summary: The Joy of Cooking is a brillant cookbook.
Review: The Joy of Cooking should be the first cookbook of any beginning cook. I need to buy another copy as my first is so worn after 12 years of solid cooking. It has a well written and wildly amusingtext, it is straigtforward and is easily adaptable to your own specific needs or requirements.