Customer Reviews

Joy of Cooking, Miniature Edition

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It's quite the bible of food and cooking. I found the explanation of certain food groups and handling helpful. For example, what types of meat are from what parts of animals, and the oils and consistencies differ.

But as a newbie cook, I found little joy and little cooking. It's a good reference book, but much too intimidating. There's not enough beginner-type of explanations of cooking terminology or food prep techniques (nor are there pictures to help out).

Although most of the Joy of the Cooking books contain strong, solid recipes and useful hints, this tiny book is a joke. Most of the info is so basic that it offends those of us who know how to boil water. There are scant recipes and and the book is so incredibly small that it takes two hands just to open the awkward sized book.

I thought this would be a miniature version of the Joy of Cooking.
It's not. Not useful at all, and not worth purchasing

I bought this book and I didn't know it was the miniature edition. I'm very disappointed, but if I return it I have to pay to send it back. I'm keeping it in case someone else wants it.

It's quite the bible of food and cooking. I found the explanation of certain food groups and handling helpful. For example, what types of meat are from what parts of animals, and the oils and consistencies differ. But as a newbie cook, I found little joy and little cooking. It's a good reference book, but much too intimidating. There's not enough beginner-type of explanations of cooking terminology or food prep techniques (nor are there pictures to help out).

I own the larger version of this book, but both are extremely useful! Including hundreds of recipes ranging from breads to main dishes, Joy of Cooking is one cookbook I'll forever use. I can't say enough about it.

Almost everyone I know has great things to say about this cookbook. I enjoy cooking so much I decided I'd give it a try and see for myself what all the fuss was about. I admit it:I had great expectations. However,I was a little dissapointed when I got it. It's a monster of a book,which I felt I had to sit down, read and review rather than grab and go. Joy of Cooking has very good recipes, but it lacks good illustrations/pictures for my taste. I see it more as encyclopedia than cookbook. Bottom line is: I liked it, I didn't send it back, I use it sometimes, but my all-time favorite, 5 stars cookbook still is the wonderful BETTER HOMES & GARDENS NEW COOKBOOK.

very dissapointed in this minature version of this classis cookbook. I thought I was ordering a regular full sized joy of cooking. I saw nothing when ordering that indicated that this would be a minature (a joke perhaps). I'm concerned about returning it as I may be charged again and then have about 9 dollars wrapped up in shipping charges and no book. You've given me cold feet about ordering from Amazon again. Ken

I expected a condensed version of the large book. This is a waste of money.