Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated

An essential for any cook

I have 3 issues of this book because it's amazing. I got my first edition decades ago...it's held up to even my chaotic cooking...and the information inside is educational in both recipes and random informational value about not just food, but the history of it...I've even read it like a non-recipe book, just to learn how certain recipes came to be, and other such learning moments. It's more than just a great cookbook - it's a great book in general that happens to be packed full of recipes. They teach you to cook meats I'LL never cook, but it's very interesting to read about how to if times ever got so bad that I had to eat wild meat. lol Great writing, great recipes, and highly educational...I just bought the original, first edition as a Christmas gift for my niece, who recently got her first big job in another state, and is learning how to cook on her own while living far from home. I learned to cook, can, and so on from this book in the early 70s, so it seemed like the perfect first recipe book for her to learn from, too. She doesn't know it yet, but she's getting this for Christmas this year...and her mother is a bit jealous - now she wants to borrow my copy so she can learn more from these terrific authors. This book is invaluable - you'll never need another cookbook with Joy of Cooking in your kitchen!

I'm an Englishwoman living in the UK, who's been cooking for over 50 years and consider myself an experienced and adventurous cook and I love this book. I have the 1975 edition and while it reflects it's time by using some convenience foods in some of it's recipes, overall it's a very useful book. It has clarified some questions I had about US ingredients and I expect it will do more. As well as a "how-to-do" book it's a fascinating read. I like the lay-out of the recipes - the ingredients are printed in bold type and interspersed in the method, which is a system I like (others may not like this but each to his/her own). Now I have this book I feel my culinary education is complete - I have the book that teaches me how to cook a bear!!!!

Very good book

The recipes, followed to the letter, are top notch! There are so many recipes in this book it has yet to happen that I have not found a recipe I've hoped to find in the index.

アメリカの友人の家で見かけて、購入しました。 日本と計量方法や温度表示が異なるので、その点だけ慣れれば（アバウトでいいです）、思いがけない、しかも簡単な料理方法に出会えます。