Regardless of the ages, and long passed authors, our favorite cookbook is The Joy of Cooking. Often the authors list recipes that seem to begin with planting the seeds in the garden, but it's a great cookbook with great ideas for well made foods. When they start talking about doing something in 17 steps, we get out another cookbook, compare the recipes and make our own solutions from the two cookbooks. But the Joy of Cooking is an excellent resource in the cooking field. No doubt about it.

I love that cookbook! We actually have two versions. One being a very recent edition. We also have a much older version that has recipes on how to prepare possum and such.

We have 3 versions of The Joy of Cooking on our bookshelf, a hardback from about 1982, a softback copy from 1976, and a reprint of an old version, which may have the oppossum recipe in it.

The paperback version of the Joy of Cooking is really beat up, but has a delicious whole wheat bread recipe in it. But it doesn't have a fudge recipe I used to make all the time, and so often that I didn't need the recipe. That's why we bought the reprint of the old version. I once saw an original older version at a used bookstore, but they wanted $40.00 for it, and thought that was too much for a fudge recipe

They're great cookbooks for classic recipes. I like to dabble in new recipes made with different ingredients too, and use these books as a reference for getting started.

Oh yes, I recieved two of them as wedding gifts. I think everyone shares this opinion.

I have that book too. Several years back, we collected a bunch of recipies over the years of family reunions and made a Family cookbook. I like to use family recipies...keep tradition alive.