MY favorite cooobokk is the Joy of Cooking. I have a newer edition that includes heaps of info about how to buy, store, and prepare different ingredients including popular vegetarian items that were not in previous editions. The first edition was published in 1932. My Mom had an older edition when we were growing up that detailed (with pictures!) how to skin squirels and rabbits. My sis and I got a lot of squeal mileage out of those diagrams. I love this cooobokk because it has almost everything you can imagine in it- all the basics from which to start and very detailed methods. I refer to the Joy Of' almost daily. The layout is perfect, is all info and little gloss, and is a plain good read to boot. At over 1100 pages there is very little material it does not cover.
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