Have dusted off the slow-cooker (inspired by a recent thread) and am interested in filling it and forgetting it. Need good cookbook(s). Was looking at Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. Has anyone tried it? Also saw a few suggestions...
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What's the oldest cookbook you own? I have a copy of the "Pictorial Review Standard Cookbook" from 1931. Pictorial Review was apparently a monthly magazine, and this is 1,000 recipes from their pages including "Porto [not "Puerto"] Rican Pot Roast",...
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What cookbook do you own that people would be surprised at? I've got two. One is the Gilligan's Island cookbook. No, it's not about making generators from coconuts and seawater, it's a collection of recipes (allegedly) from the cast members....
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Hi all! Any suggestions for a really good Vietnamese cookbook? Thanks!...
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Just one. That one cookbook you'd take to a desert island (hopefully one with a decent meat and produce section :-) ! For me, it would be, hands down, Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I could happily live...
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Am I the only one being driven crazy by problems with cookbook and magazine recipes that don't work? I had another one of those episodes the other day. You look at the recipe and think (if you've been around a...
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I have decided it's time to take all my many scraps of paper and cookbooks with just one much-loved recipe and consolidate them into my own "cookbook". I see a lot of software available to do this--has anyone done this...
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I would like to start a cookbook collection and went to Border's to purchase some. Boy was I amazed at the vast number and assortment of cookbooks there are out there! What would be everyone's top five so I can...
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Okay, we've done best and worst...but c'mon, the funnest ones to read are the novelty ones, admit it ;) Well, perhaps my affection starts with my first--a circa 1950s Betty Crocker kids cookbook from the library I loved as a...
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Hey there, SE'ers. I've been reviewing a LOT of cookbooks lately and find that there are things I like and things I don't. For example, I'm getting tired of books that use the first half to explain cooking techniques and...
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