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JerryM · 11-28-2006, 10:06 PM

I would be torn between "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook" I bought in 1971 when I first got serious about cooking and "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking".
Of course, for backup, I try to keep at least a couple hundred "specialized" cookbooks on hand. Usually after I read a recipe or two for inspiration, I take off on some weird tangent of my own. Actually, I have been known to skip reading the recipe and just take off on the tangent - that can be fun.

11-28-2006, 10:06 PM	#15
JerryM Writer of Writings Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Onalaska, Texas Posts: 14	. . . For broad reference I would be torn between "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook" I bought in 1971 when I first got serious about cooking and "James Beard's Theory & Practice of Good Cooking". Of course, for backup, I try to keep at least a couple hundred "specialized" cookbooks on hand. Usually after I read a recipe or two for inspiration, I take off on some weird tangent of my own. Actually, I have been known to skip reading the recipe and just take off on the tangent - that can be fun. __________________ I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. Alexis de Tocqueville