| Guide Picks - Top Cookbooks
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What are your favorite cookbooks? Do you know what to look for when buying a new one? Cookbooks are my favorite books to read, and I read them like novels. These are my absolute favorites, that I reach for when I need to plan a party or spark an article idea. Enjoy! |
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Home Cooking
 This wonderful cookbook not only offers fantastic, easy recipes, but is an absolute joy to read. In over thirty years of reading and collecting cookbooks, this remains my top choice. Ms. Colwin's philosophy was that food should give back to you much more than you put into it. And her recipes do that.
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Pillsbury Classic Cookbooks
 These books form the backbone of my cookbook collection. And it isn't just that I worked for Pillsbury! I loved them and read them until they were imprinted in my brain well before I ever set foot in the Pillsbury complex. The recipes are rigorously triple-tested and presented to many taste panels before they make it into these books. Pick one up at your grocery store, or better yet, subscribe!
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Betty Crocker's Slow Cooker Cookbook
This wonderful book has the best recipe for Beef Stroganoff I have ever tasted. And since it's cooked in the slow cooker, it's the easiest too! All the recipes in this book work. There's no higher praise from me.
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Joy Of Cooking
Everyone needs, as Peg Bracken puts it, "a big fat cookbook" in their kitchen. Where else will you find how long to roast a 14 pound turkey, what duxelles are, and how to make 30 different kinds of gelatin salad? The 'Joy' is a classic, and will never go out of style.
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Desperation Dinners!
This excellent book, by Alicia Mills and Beverly Gray, is stuffed full of recipes that have been tested with a stopwatch - so you know they can be prepared in the time stated. A bonus is these meals will definitely appeal to all family members.
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