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Classic Cookbook, The: The Best of American Home Cooking {Omnibus}
 

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Food & Wine
Educational, Instructional, Reference

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2002-01-01 Little, Brown and Co  

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IBDoF Note: This is an omnibus edition that reprints two books that were previously bound separately:
* "The Cook's Bible", by Cook's Illustrated Magazine
* "The Dessert Bible", by Cook's Illustrated Magazine


Publisher Blurb for Cook's Bible:

Written by Chris Kimball, Founder and Editor of Cook's Illustrated, The Cook's Bible presents five years of hands-on research and kitchen testing. This one-stop cooking reference has 50 different chapters covering soups, rice, chicken, barbecue, grilling, stir-frying, salad dressing, potatoes, salads, pies, cookies, fruit, cake, and much more.

The book features 450 pages with more than 400 recipes; over 200 hand-drawn illustrations; information about purchasing kitchen equipment, including surveys of prices, models, and features; and the best techniques and methods for preparing food.

Quite simply, The Cook's Bible is a collection of reliable recipes and information about what works, what doesn't, and why.

Publisher Blurb for Dessert Bible:

From Christopher Kimball, the best and most reliable ways to make more than 300 of America's favorite desserts, from creme caramel, coconut layer cake, and old-fashioned shortcake, to double chocolate cookies and chilled lemon souffle. The result of thousands of hours of kitchen testing, ecipes but includes in-depth investigations of how and why they work so you will become a better cook.