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	• Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, ... Scribner, 2006 - 1152 pages average customer review:based on 153 reviews view larger image
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The Crepes Recipe and Squirrel Skinning are Gone!

I bought the 1975 edition as my first cookbook after I was married in 1983. I am happy to report that the dust jacket is faded, yellowed, stained, and quite dirty; the spine of the book is cracked, and the pages are dog eared. I learned to cook with this book and still use it regularly. After all this time, I decided to upgrade to the new edition. It was so tempting - that bright white, clean, brand new cover was calling out to me. So I bought it and brought it home without showing it to my husband who uses it on the weekends to make his breakfast crepes, which are just like the ones his French Canadian mother made. I decided I would give my old book to a very good friend who lives in the city, doesn't really cook, and doesn't own a cookbook. I inscribed the front page to her (saying I hoped the book would inspire her to cook as it did for me) and then told my husband I had given it away. He said "Wait, that book has my crepes recipe". I said "Don't worry, that's such a basic recipe, they wouldn't have gotten rid of that". So I asked my friend to look and see if the recipe was still in the new book, and sure enough it was gone! How could they remove the "French Pancakes or Crepes" recipe?!

My husband said "We have to get that book back!" I said "No, I can't ask for it back, we'll just copy the recipe into the new book." So I asked my friend to bring the book over so we could copy the recipe into the new book.

Meanwhile, she had brought the book into work and had a good laugh with her co-workers going through the book, picking out recipes for meals that she would never make, and looking at the old illustrations. She pointed out the best illustration on page 515 on how to skin a squirrel. It's great! It shows disembodied gloved hands and a boot stomping on the tail and pulling the skin off in one fell swoop. We checked the new book and it's gone along with the crepes recipe!

Well that was it. We had to ask for the book back. I gave my friend the new edition, tore out the page that had my inscription to her on, and put the book back in it's place on my kitchen bookshelf. I will never give away my 1975 edition again!

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Love to cook. Have an old edition of Joy of Cooking. Have used it many times. Looking forward to breaking this book in too.

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Best Cookbook, and great cross reference for recipes

Not only is this a great cookbook for literally tons of recipes, I use it as a cross reference. Whenever I find a great recipe, I look and see if the the Joy of Cooking has a version. Now if the Joy of Cooking version measurements are way off on something, then I know I cannot trust the recipe.

If you have a couple of recipes from the BHG, martha, etc. that just don't work for you, do a side by side example to the joy of cooking's version and I bet the "problem" will jump off the page.

P.S. Always sift the flour for the pancake recipes in the book or they will be thick and you will literally have to spoon the "batter" out.

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Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006

I was prepared not to be pleased with the "new" Joy of Cooking, but I was forced to purchase it when I lost my 40 + year old copy - the green book. When it arrived, I noted that it was much "fatter" and found that this new book contained a larger assortment of information and additional recepies. I looked for my old, favorite recepies and was not able to locate them until I began to look at alternative names/locations for them. And, to my surprise, everything was there! The book is easy to read and to find what you need to know. I was pleasently surprised. It now sits in the favored cookbook location, at my fingertips for consult or review or experimentation in the kitchen.

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Essential reading for cookaholics!

If you have only one cookbook in your kitchen, make sure it is this one!
I purchased this because it was recommended by Lin Pardey as a very useful item to have aboard the yacht.
It is a comprehensive cookery course and reference book all in one volume.
This new edition is fully up to date on the latest trends in cookery and food presentation.
Recommended.
Kathy Hughes, Adelaide, South AustraliaJoy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006

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