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James Beard's Simple Foods

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The thing I love about this collection of essays about foods and cooking is that it doesn't just report recipes. It talks about techniques, ingredients, cooking tools in a very friendly and informative way. It is a pleasure to read and it encourages experimentation. In explaining both the essentials and variations on the topics & dishes covered, James Beard gives you the confidence to make dishes your own. It is more than a cook book.

This is a wonderful cookbook, one of my all-time favorites. It's written in easy to read, easy to do, prose in which Beard walks you through the fundamentals of fabulous crepes, roast chicken and other basics. It's talky and much more detailed [...]

I happened to pick up this book at a library. I didn't expect much, but fell in love with it. I could not put it down. I was even sad toward the end because I didn't want to finish it! It is not easy to find a book like that nowadays. You can tell how much he loved food and to eat. After I returned it, I purchased a copy for my book shelf.