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Joy of Cooking: The All-Purpose Cookbook

The new (sixth) edition of that perennial favorite, THE JOY OF COOKING is the first revision in more than 20 years--this one by Erma Rombauer's grandson, Ethan Becker. This version contains no canned soup recipes, no frozen veggies, and few gelatin salads. It does feature such ethnic and/or health-conscious recipes as Ethiopian chicken, Thai beef salad, Szechuan spiced tofu, low-fat cheesecake, and an entire chapter devoted to pasta.

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Updatiing but not improving, September 20, 2007

By DR1996, Chelsea, MI

"Irma must be turning in her grave to see what's been done to her cookbook in the name of modernizing. Whomever is left in the family certainly have not carried on her tradition. As one instance they have changed the Chicken Cacciatore recipe from a simple and extremely tasteful one with elegance and depth of flavor to a pseudo-Italian mess with chopped tomatoes.olives and a mess of chopped onion rather than the one with shallots, mushrooms and brandy. Phooey!
Buy a copy of the older and unrevised Joy of Cooking. The one that hasn't had the joy removed."

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