charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) (10/23/85)
>> Does anyone have suggestions for cookbooks (any category) which you >> would consider "safe"? >> >Probably the ultimate "safe" cookebook is the (in)famous "Joy >of Cooking". It has taken many lumps over the years for being >"bland", "uninteresting", "overratted", but it is safe, safe, SAFE. In addition, "The Joy of Cooking" is also crammed with *basic* cooking information. It actually *explains* what all those other cookbooks assume you already know. Things like what the ingredients are, how to tell if they're fresh, how to store them, substitutions and equivalents, and on and on. It is also the only cookbook I've ever seen that actually provides "recipes" for things like baked potatoes, rice, iced tea, *plain* cooked vegetables, and the like. It explains how to cut up chickens and how to carve turkeys. It puts warnings on recipes (like mayonnaise and certain pastries) whose success depends in part on the weather. charli