Best of the Best from Bell's Best Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Bell's Best Cookbooks (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Best of the Best Cookbook) [Plastic Comb]

TelecomPioneers of Mississippi (Author), Gwen McKee (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Best of the Best Cookbook | Publication Date: October 30, 2006

Bell's Best cookbooks, with over 6,000 outstanding recipes, have been condensed into one cookbook, with 429 of the most exceptional recipes to be found anywhere! Included among the recipes are fascinating facts and illustrations that show the development of the telephone.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 288 pages
• Publisher: Quail Ridge Press (October 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893062937
• ISBN-13: 978-1893062931
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #580,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best of the Best, January 7, 2008

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Diamond "Nurse Gal" (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of the Best from Bell's Best Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Bell's Best Cookbooks (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Plastic Comb)

Okay, when I saw this Cookbook, I just had to have it. I have the Original Bell's Best cookbook. I was thrilled to see a compilation of all 4 cookbooks combined. I bought copies for some relatives of mine as well. The Bell's Best are well known here in the south (at least I think they are). I only wish there were more recipes added. It could easily been made a much bigger cookbook, esp. since the other Bell's Best cookbooks are hundreds of pages in length. I guess this will leave room for sequels so others can enjoy these recipes as much as I have!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope it's as good as the original Bell's Best!, April 26, 2007

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Lisa K. Treon "Editmom" (Peachtree City, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of the Best from Bell's Best Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Bell's Best Cookbooks (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Plastic Comb)

I'm ordering this now -- I can't wait! The original Bell's Best cookbook from Jackson, MS that my mom still uses lies in loose pages in a kitchen drawer. Some of its food-spattered pages are still held together with a ragged duct-tape binding; others are tucked into plastic bags or wrapped with a rubber band. We don't care. We still keep going back to it, more than any other cookbook. Ever.

I'm so excited to see what this version contains. The recipes in the original Bell's Best, published in the early '80s, I think, were easy to prepare with ingredients found in any grocery store. The results were always fantastic. God bless the BellSouth Telephone Pioneers for their wonderful donations of recipes and memories.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dishes to grace any dining occasion, please any palate, and satisfy any appetite, May 8, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of the Best from Bell's Best Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Bell's Best Cookbooks (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Best of the Best Cookbook) (Plastic Comb)

The TelecomPioneers of Mississippi have published a series of four volumes of cookbook recipes, beginning with "Bell's Best" in 1981, followed by "Bell's Best 2"; "Savory Classics"; and "Bell's Best IV". The accumulative total of these four previously published cookbooks adds up to more than six thousand recipes! Now available from Quail Ridge Press is their fifth cookbook volume, "Best Of The Best From Bell's Best Cookbook" which is a distillation and compilation of 429 recipes taken from the previous four volumes of the 'Bell's Best Cookbook' series and presented along with informative and fascinating historical facts and illustrations showing the development of the telephone over the years from its inception with Alexander Graham Bell's initial transmission over a telephone line to his assistant Thomas Watson, down to the touch tone and cell phones present day. This outstanding compendium include recipes for beverages and appetizers; breads and breakfasts; soups, stews and chilies; salads; pastas and rice dishes; meats; poultry; seafood; cakes; cookies and candies; as well as pies and other desserts. Of special note is the chapter devoted to equivalents and substitutions. From an Almond-Bacon Cheese Dip; to Chicken Tortilla Soup; to Fruit Salad with Apricot Dressing; to a Sausage Rice Casserole; to Barbequed Shrimp; to Crushed Pineapple Cream Cake; to Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge, these are dishes that would grace any dining occasion, please any palate, and satisfy any appetite. "Best Of The Best From Bell's Best Cookbook" is a welcome and recommended addition to both personal and community library cookbook collections!

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch