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Better Homes and Gardens Heritage of America Cookbook (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen)

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If I could only keep one cookbook, this would be it. I find myself going to this book time after time for both classic and unique recipes. It has given me a much richer sense of the history of the nation as a whole, and even of my own geographic region. The recipes are wonderful, but the explanations of how and why the dishes were used...well, they're what makes this book truly special! I have the original and the book jacket is pretty worn, but it will always have the most prominent place on my shelf.

Excellent, tested recipes make you a good cook and I can make any recipe in this book with confidence that it will be one that people will ask for the recipe. I love good food and learning the history of how each region of the country came to be famous for certain dishes deepens your appreciation for it. Every recipe has a picture,too!
No one I know has this book (it was a gift to me) so I loved reading other people's five star reviews. I finally found some out of print editions on Amazon.

Absolutely beautiful...and imminently useable (the recipes, not the oversized hardback format). Every recipe that I expected in an all-American book was in here--Key lime pie, lemon chess pie, posole, Parker House rolls--it's really wonderful and complete. I would love to see this in a trade paperback edition, so more people could afford and use this beautiful book of delicious recipes and regional cooking history. A great gift for your foreign friends, or someone going to live abroad (permanently, if you're going to lug somethin of this size around!).

I have been using this book since I received as a gift, original print (approx. 1976). Even received notice in my local newspaper many years ago when I submitted the "Joe Frogger Molasses Cookie" recipe with history, to a request for molasses cookies that had shelf life. I think they loved the history attached to it.

I am a Culinary Arts graduate and I find this book to be a "back to" favorite. One of my favorites. Many cooks in my family use it, and another is searching for it. Buying used...wish me luck.

This book is chock-full of recipes complete with pictures and their origins. I actually got this to use for homeschooling in conjunction with our studies of America. What better way to learn about our country than to experience the foods of different times and places?

I'm pretty sure this book is the same one I purchased in the 1970's. The cover is a bit different, as is the title: "The Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book." I read and reread it many times - while enjoying the many recipes and trying them out on my then young family - along with a dose of "Mom's History Lesson" at the dinner table. I just recently bought some dark molasses - with intensions of making some "Joe Frogger" soft, buttery, dark ginger cookies - but when I looked for the source of this old recipe . . . my American Heritage cookbook - - it was no where to be found. Must have lost this cookbook in the many moves since the seventies. So, I will order this one and anticipate not only a trip down my own memory lane, but also a chance to reread the familiar old stories about the recipes and food of our country's beginnings. If you love food and the history of how a recipe came to be, this is a one of a kind book that will not dissappoint- someone else said it was their favorite - I would also put it in that catagory.

This is my favorite cookbook of all times. Each recipe includes a picture, nutritional components and a few sentences as to its origins. For example, gumbo is the African name for okra. The recipes are unusually delicious and I have the confidence to experiment on company! Plus, they use familiar ingredients. I can't believe this book is out of print! I am looking for copies as gifts.

LOVE IT!!! Checked it out at a bookstore and knew that it WAS for me, back at home! It is, honestly, THE best old-fashioned cookbook in my collection. I have used it often....

I have been collecting the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbooks & I happen to stumble upon this Heritage of America Cookbook here on amazon.com & I thought what a find & defiantly a must have for my collection.When I received it it has allot of old heritage recipes & tales of the different ways they had to do things back in the day.Its a vintage old cook book that is a must have you can find lot of different things your family will keep coming back for more of..

All of the recipes I have tried from the book have been excellent. The pictures are beautiful, and the historic information fascinating. Highly recommended.