Pros & Cons
Pros
The classic american ingredient desserts are delicious history lessons your can be proud to have grace the table. The recipes are clear and easy to use, and i have always found the little bits of culinary history surrounding them fascinating. This is ... Read More
I can hardly do this book justice by reviewing it, you just have to see it to believe it! It is, once again, getting it's share of scribbles and changes. What a great idea to reprint this book in 2010.
My most cherished cookbook, my second acquisition as a new bride. This truly is a cookbook you will want to read over time. There are some surprising omissions, but all in all, it is a good cookbook.
American cookery is as classic in its own way as mark twain's huckleberry finn. This cookbook obviously has huge breadth and depth of american cookery. For looking for cherry pie, and reading that there used to be many more kinds of cherries commonly ... Read More
Cons
This is the second kindle-edition cookbook i have had to return for a refund. This james beard classic only has links in the chapter heading and contains an apparently scanned index that contains page numbers, for which there is absolutely no correspo... Read More
Highlights
Quality
My wife is delighted with the book
I like the information and context he has with the recipes
If youre trying to find a real first edition double check with the seller before purchasing
I am replacing my soft cover edition of this book with the hardcover because the soft edition has fallen apart at the binding
Competitiveness
These two books should be a must on anyones bookshelf
I highly recommend this book or anyones kitchen
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is not just a recipe book
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However the binding of the book is poor is starting to come apart plus about 100 pages were stuck together and i had to manually separate
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I bought beards book because i heard a lady being interviewed on michael berry syndicated who worked for the james beard foundation
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No smudges ripped pages grease marks
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We have the 1972 ed ed this book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Like many younger cooks he downloads most of his recipes from the internet which is at best a hit or miss method
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Some are listing this book as a first edition when in fact they are subsequent printings
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I think some sellers do not understand what first edition actually means