The book that taught America how to cook, now illustrated with glorious color photography ALL ABOUT VEGETARIAN COOKING A fresh and original way to put the classic advice of Joy of Cooking to work -- illustrated and designed in a beautiful and easy-to-use new book.
In 1931, a St. Louis widow named Irma von Starkloff Rombauer took her life savings and self-published a book called The Joy of Cooking. Her daughter, Marion, tested recipes and made the illustrations, and they sold their mother-daughter project from Irma's apartment.
This was a fabulous find recently for me. I really love the Joy of Cooking: All About series. Even though some of the recipes are duplicates from the original Joy of Cooking, the recipes are organized a little differently and there are some fantastic pictures. A book I definitely recommend if you are like me and give meat up once a week. We just had the Spanakopita for dinner this evening and it was fantastic!
One of the things that I like best about Joy (this book or others) is that they rarely call for weird ingredients or equipment that you don’t already have. In addition to giving you information about special ingredients or just a basic history lesson, Joy helps you get a great dinner on the table, without spending too much time or money.
Solid overview of the basics. Pictures are often of random ingredients and not the actual recipes. Some of the health info is outdated but the techniques are straightforward. Well organized.
There is nothing I want to eat in here, and the pictures aren't all that appetizing. The stuffed acorn squash looks uncooked? The ingredients are sprinkled throughout the recipe (in bold type) and not listed at the beginning. Good thing it was a library book.