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Old 11-24-2006, 07:12 PM   #4
MaggieL
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia)
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Originally Posted by Griff
It has to be Joy of Cooking.
Agree. I'm not a good enough cook to use any other book by itself. :-)

If I can add a second book, it would have to be Shirley Corriher's wonderful "Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed". She's the food scientist who shows up on Alton Brown's Good Eats with the dykey haircut.
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